5.08.2010
My Church is a Labyrinth Full of Strange Things
I go to a new church in an ancient building. It's a church plant that took over a dying church. The building is massive and intricate and beautiful. Today was a "work day" (volunteers clean out random rooms and do some maintenance). We filled up a huge dumpster with junk in just a few hours. Apparently the people who occupied the building before were pack rats with unusual style. The walls of the old youth room were covered in Anime Bible scenes....weird on so many levels. Just picture Moses with a baby Asian face and a long, flowing neck beard. That's all you need to know. There was a large closet in this odd youth room chalk full of ratty old clothes that had not been touched in decades. They were in such disrepair that we didn't have the heart to donate them. So we hid them in trash bags (so the needy neighbors wouldn't see) and took them to the dumpster (I did save one diamond in the rough for my trendy thrifty friend). After we completely cleared out the closet and youth room, we moved to an old Sunday School room on the third floor. This room had numerous ugly paintings in tacky frames, bags and bags and bags of packing peanuts, lots of bubble wrap, a box of stained glass windows, millions of soda cans, a faded poster of DC Talk circa 1990's, and a box marked "Caution: Highly Explosive." It just keeps getting better. After emptying this room, I was glad to move to the first floor. After climbing up and down three flights of stairs, my thighs were crying out for mercy. This room was full of pianos...I'm talking approximately twelve pianos back to back to back in one room. We also found a filing room reminiscent of FBI movies...only these files contained church choir musicals such as A Barbecue for Benjamin: A musical based on the parable of the prodigal son featuring songs with titles: Whoops! My Pocketbook's Empty and Who's that Digging in My Garbage Can? There was also a bust of a Roman soldier. Yes, a Roman soldier. We took that to one of our friends...he collects and sometimes wears strange things and it suited him well. I don't know how one building can have some many interesting artifacts hidden inside. I was truly amazed and I feel like my description doesn't do it justice.
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