Bigfoot For Christ.

This weekend I had a rare pleasure: dressing up in a gorilla outfit to impersonate Bigfoot. And why, you might ask, would I be dressing up like Bigfoot? Why, because my church asked me to, of course!

The latest sermon series at LifeChurch is Urban Legends, and even though they’re actually addressing the Urban Legends and misconceptions among Christians, they’re embracing the whole theme of legends with marketing material showing images of Bigfoot, aliens, Loch Ness Monster, etc.

So I was the Bigfoot that walked casually across the stage, down the stairs and out the back of the auditorium. (Actually, I walked casually across the stage for the 5:30pm service, then BOLTED down the aisle for the 7:00pm… kind of a hurried lurch, I guess…

It was fun, but incredibly sweaty. Boy, that suit stank! I felt bad for the next guy who donned it for the Sunday morning services. To be honest, I kinda had flashbacks to when I’d dress up at Chuck E. Cheese when I worked at Showbiz Pizza Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Except this time I didn’t have some delusional parent handing off their bawling kid, trying to capture the “perfect moment” with their camera. Seriously. All they ended up capturing was evidence of child abuse… and character mouse abuse, I could argue.

The Urban Legends series is fantastic, though. You can stream it or subscribe to their podcasts through iTunes to see what it’s all about. Good, good stuff!

Kevin

Update: Tonight I was asked if I could be Bigfoot again this weekend, wandering the parking lots aimlessly. I immediately said Yes, of course. Wow. I’m thrilled! (No, seriously… I’m actually thrilled, here!)