The church house … that is …

Let me ask a pretty simple question … Who cleans your church?

I have served on staff in five Southern Baptist churches in my ministry career. In the first four churches, even the smallest one (and I mean REALLY small), we had a paid janitorial staff. Like most other churches tend to do, we paid people to sweep and vacuum our floors and clean our toilets.

But we don’t do that at Crossroads Fellowship. We have divided our LIFE Groups (home-based small groups) into a six-week rotation schedule. And on their appointed weeks, these small groups show up in mass on Friday or Saturday and thoroughly clean our facility. They wash, sweep, vacuum, scrub, and clean. And on top of that, they hand-fold and stuff all of our bulletins/worship guides for Sunday morning. Almost every small-group participant in our church takes part in the weekly cleaning. Then on Sunday morning those groups are responsible for greeting people at the entrance to our worship room and passing out worship guides.

It’s truly an awesome thing to see. And just one more example (I think) of how this generation that we are reaching at Crossroads would much rather be “hands-on” and serve rather than “hire out” tasks that they feel they should be doing themselves.

So, just a little word of testimony from my incredible church. I appreciate this opportunity to brag on my people. :) I can’t wait to be with them again next Sunday.