About ten minutes ago, I was carrying a paint bucket full of water to my office. "Why?" you might ask. Well, I needed the water because there is a fifty pound bag of alfalfa pellets in my office, of course. "Why is there a fifty pound bag of Alfafa pellets in your office?" Great question. I am going to pour the pellets into the water and make an organic fertilizing tea to drink later as I doze off in my office...
Okay, here's the truth. I am making a fertilizing tea, but not for my exhaustion. It will be used on the two urban vegetable gardens our church will plant for two local agencies this weekend. There you have it!
Today we (FBC Norman) moved 2,000 bottles of donated water into the church, got a local outdoors store to donate biodegradable toilet paper for a homeless community living by the river, and convinced an apartment complex manager that they needed to bug-bomb a handicapped resident's roach-infested apartment.
A day in the life of Community Ministry.
This weekend is our first annual To Norman With Love event at FBC Norman. Similar events have been done by other churches around the country long before us. What kind of message would the Church be sending here in America if went out of our way to provide just as many local expressions of mercy (missions) as we do foreign? Wouldn't it be a neat thing if the Church was known for absolute servanthood?
I will write again with some good stories from this upcoming weekend. Stay tuned.
Thanks for reading,
Joey
You're bangin' a drum that resonates with my heart. Many good hopes for the upcoming weekend and all my excitement for everything done through fbc norman for the "outsiders".
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