We girls were asked to clean the church one day for service that night. We had to Pledge the pews, pulpit and piano, and quite by accident one of us noticed how pretty the tile floor looked when Pledge was sprayed on it. So after a lot of hard work we were very proud of how nice the sanctuary looked that night with floors shining.
The Spirit if God filled the church as people started praising Him. A few of the men jumped up and down, then started running the aisles. But the pledged floors weren't only pretty, they were slick, and as each one tried to run around the pews, they instead slid into the corner.
When the preaching started a man on the front pew was clapping, yelling "Amen!" and backing the preacher. As the preacher said something really exciting the man leaned quickly forward in his pew, clapping his hands, with his feet sliding on the floor he slid forward out of his pew into the floor.
Another time we were getting ready for special services that were scheduled. The whole place was a beehive of activity with cleaning, carpentry, painting, plumbing and other tasks being done.
Brother Prather asked several of us girls to paint the bathrooms. He had bought a mint green paint for the men's room and pale pink for the women's. If I recall correctly Connie, Becky, Sherry and we older girls were asked to do the painting.
The colors of paint that were chosen for the bathrooms were pretty, but we girls decided to make it look nicer. So for the men's bathroom the cement blocks were alternately painted, one pink, one green throughout. We wanted the women's bathroom to look more feminine so we painted the blocks green with pink flowers.
Brother Prather laughed and thought our work was nice, but considering that it was in the years of the "Flower Power" he bought more paint and asked us to redo it.
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