Swerve

Last Saturday we participated in the first Swerve of Bellevue Baptist. Jrod has been talking alot lately about how you are most like Jesus when you are reaching out to others. Swerve was a 5 hour community service event in which I ended up on the Toilet Team. We went around the community looking for any needs we could fill. Our main thing was cleaning toilets, which had some good symbology behind it. In the times when Jesus lived, cleaning people's feet was one of the lowest and most dirty of tasks, so Jesus humbled himself to clean the feet of all of his deciples. Today toilets are considered nasty, especially public ones, so by the end of the day all of us cleaned at least one.

That wasn't the only thing we did though. We also swept parking lots and stores, cleaned the church van and whatever else we could find to do. Part of that was to go to the new Don Moore dealership on HW54 and clean out the large gutter completely full of trash next to the building. It was very steep, very messy, and painful because of the trash stuck in the many throne bushes. At the end of the day though, it was all worth it and very fun. Jrod says we will start doing this as just another part of the church life at least once every quarter, possibly more depending on attendance.