Getting Dirty for God

The church I pastor recently concluded a 40 day journey called, "40 Days of Community". The two-fold purpose of this series was to first, build community (a network of support and unity within the church family) , mainly through our LIFE GROUPS, and two, encourage the LIFE GROUPS in the church to reach out to our community.


The LIFE GROUP that I am a part of decided that we would do oil changes and a car wash for single moms. Josh, a member of my LIFE GROUP, owns Bill's Standard, so this turned out to be a perfect place to get dirty for God. We gathered some names from Hands of Hope and Kinship of Morrison County and away we went. As you can see from the photos, we had a great time. Along with the oil change and car wash, we provided a rose to each mom and Coborn's donated a ham, just in time for Easter.


When I serve others, I find that I often get blessed as much as those who benefit from what I do for them. It's fun fulfilling the second greatest command of Jesus. "Love your neighbor as yourself". It's even more fun when you do it with others. It's called "Doing Life Together"!

Oh, by the way, we didn't do this to get single moms to our church but we did have one attend the next day. She was so excited to have a group of people reach out to her. As she said, "This came at a perfect time". She was stressed out and overwhelmed and this was just the thing to lift her up! Who are you going to do a kind thing for today?