We had our Fresh Life Sunday's Service in the park today. A lot of preparation had to go into this. If you didn’t already know, you can’t just go into a park and set up your kingdom like you own the place, because generally you don’t. You have to go through the city and ask if its okay to use their park on this day at this time. And this really sucks if you take things way to literally all the time. Trying to go through the city isn’t an easy thing, not to mention, a city is an inanimate object. It’s kind of hard asking things to use their parks. But you’re not like that, are you? So we talked to the city (I wasn’t actually there, but I was part of the group that wanted the park therefore I have stated that “we” in that part of the sentence) and had the park reserved for the time we needed it. We visited the park a few times just to get a general lay out and figure out where things were going to go. I talked about one of these miraculous voyages in a previous blog, “Were on a mission from God.” All seemed to made in the shade! This is good, because that’s where we wanted it to be. It would get way to hot for the people to be in the sun that whole time. However we did discover one problem during our miniature shindigs. Sprinklers. Every time they would turn on, they would create a swamp-like environment, leaving the ground muddy and puddled. They soaked the benches, electrical outlets and the gazebo in which the band and Levi would open the door to the gospel. Needless to say, we didn’t want people to being electrocuted. Think of how many less people would be at Fresh Life Church the following Sunday! Again, Eric and Levi spoke with the city and they assured us the our problem would be taken care of.
So our day came around and we were up at 6 --. The day was beautiful, we couldn’t have prayed for a better one. So we loaded up and headed to the church to get things ready for the upcoming service.
We drove up, and to our dismay, the sprinklers were also up and spraying their hellish waves of acidic/swamifying water. Slightly bummed, we decided to set up what we could. Only the outside borders of the park were being watered. So we removed all the sound equipment with the tables and drinks (the drinks were for a bbq that we were having for anyone who wanted to come after the service) from the trucks. As we stared to set up, all the sprinklers went off that were in the middle. All of the equipment was out in the middle so we ran frantically with our manly muscles moving everything to the center of the gazebo so it wouldn’t be damaged. Some of the sprinklers were actually shooting water onto the stage, so we went to block their vicious attacks. Jesse, with the common sense in his head, used one of the benches that was at the park to flip over the top of the sprinkler so it would stop spraying everything. I, on the other hand, made a pyramid shaped barrier out of about 8 sprite cans blocking the area of the stage form the sprinklers harmful rays of death. As this intense battle raged on, we saw Eric in the background walk over to a hedge of bushes and take out a plug in the wall, and the water mocked no more.
After a while, everything got to where it should be. In the shade. We discussed this earlier. The service was beautiful. Some people who were running stayed for the service and all the people of the church came to celebrate this day with us. And after tons of labor our efforts were found fruitful, and our women beautiful. Good night, and stay classy.
1 comment:
You are supposed to be ministering for the Lord, but it just seems like you are complaining about how much trouble it is. I don't see any mention of how many people were saved at this service. I walk by your 'church' every Sunday morning. Nobody even says hello to me, let alone invites me in to attend service. I walked by on that Sunday morning when you were doing the park service as well. Nobody invited me to join the service. You people seem like self centered yuppies rather than a loving church. It is hard to even tell that you are a church because there is no Cross or even the word 'church' on the outside of your building. Jesus is coming soon. You need to reach the lost and disillusioned in Kalispell instead of playing games.
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