Church Celebrates With Mud

Sunday, August 26th 2007, 9:20 pm

By: News On 6

A local congregation says amen to getting filthy. Students from Asbury United Methodist Church, located at 6767 S. Mingo Road, celebrated a new year of ministries with mud wrestling.

The Tulsa Fire Department was on hand Sunday to make sure the mud was extra messy, spraying it down with their hoses.

Sundayâ€™s festivities were the first for the congregation's Senior Pastor, Tom Harrison, who had a special reason to get muddy.

"I tied this to a mission project,â€ he said. â€œWe have a young man who just graduated from college, he's going on a mission trip, and I said I'd get muddy if the church will support him, so we've met our goal."

About 200 students piled into the mud pit Sunday evening. The fire department hosed everyone down when it was time to go home.

Watch the video: Church Gets Dirty To Celebrate Mission Trip