Scum of the Earth Church

So tonight (well tech. yesterday now...) before I head back to college I convinced my mom to visit a church called Scum of the Earth with me. It is located in the Denver art district in a beautiful and very artsy building! It was an awesome experience!!! Now I know what you readers (if there are any) may be thinking "a Church called Scum?" Well yea that's why I wanted to attend one of there services. There goal is to open Church up to the ones who are usually rejected by most conventional churches. I actually went to High School with the Pastors son so I heard about it somewhere along the grapevine.

Heres what there site says about them:
"WHY SCUM?

It doesn’t sound like a church name … on purpose. We really want to connect with people who have no interest in “church” by society’s definition. There are plenty of churches for “normal people” and we think we have a unique calling to reach out to our otherwise unreached friends. Our name is integral to that process. Whether outcast by society (e.g., punks, skaters, ravers, homeless people…) or by the church itself, many who come can identify with the name “Scum of the Earth” since they have been previously treated as such.

More important to us, however, the name implies that being people of faith does not mean we are better than anyone else. We know many non-Christians who think Christians are out to cast judgment on them. Our name makes it clear that we aren’t about that. We are just aware of our need for God, as Scum of the Earth. Fortunately, God never sees us like that! But the name is humble and we like that."


The service started with a few , a prayer and then they served dinner to everyone! I thought this was great! Dinner seems much more personal than just giving a speech and singing a few songs. After dinner they announced all the happenings a scum and introduced Pastor Sares. The Pastor spoke about something that I personally really connected with! He said, "God calls you to him and then he sends you out."He talked about how God wants you to be with him and once he has that he sends you out to work for him. He uses your talent to help make the world a better place. He talked about the horrible atrocities in Haiti and said what are you going to do to help them? He spoke about how God gives everyone a calling and a purpose. He said his was Scum. Then he asked us all to write ours down and we put them in a big bucket! I wrote a very ambitous statement...End world hunger! I have always felt that I have a purpose and a calling and I have often preched these same teachings to friends and family. I always felt it was connected to a higher power I am just now beleving this is true!

Scum Site:http://www.scumoftheearth.net/

-D
“To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.” (1 Corinthians 4:11-13)