Warrenton United Methodist Church
Jun 28, 2026 · 22 min · 9 segments
Send us Fan Mail Pastor Ashley’s sermon centered on Jesus’ example of washing the disciples’ feet, reminding us that true greatness is found in…
I grew up in a home where service was both modeled for me and expected from me.
And I even asked my mom this week as I was reflecting on today, I'm like, why? Why was that important to you? And We had a good conversation and ultimately gratitude is what she said.
I wanted you to understand what it is to live from gratitude.
But even though service was expected from me, like many of you, I'd guess, not all, because I have heard some of your stories, but many, I would guess, that didn't often include gross tasks, right? Maybe sometimes, like cleaning up your own messes or whatever, but I wasn't doing really gross stuff.
But then, when I was in college, I wanted to go, my sophomore or junior year, I wanted to go with a group to the UK for like a little trip in the spring.
group from the department that I was in but in order to go right I had to raise money College, right? So I'm grateful.
My parents gave me money for the trip.
They did help support it.
However, they taught me the responsibility of having to contribute myself, which meant having to raise money.
And so the group of us that were going, we got together and said, OK, what can we do to raise money? And so what we did was we offered our cleaning and organizational services to other college students.
Those who were able and wanted to buy them, we said, or pay for our time, we said, we will come and do whatever you haven't done, don't want to do.
We are here to serve.
Yeah, I appreciate that you're giggling already.
Yeah, do you know what the task most people didn't want to do is? Yes, clean the toilets.
Yes.
Clean the toilets.
I still have vivid memories of being on my hands and knees in these shared college bathroom toilets.
gross.
Yeah, absolutely.
This was a world-changing shift for me.
That's one of the things that the author of our book talks about, the book that accompanies our series.
He talks about world-changing shifts, moments when as a result of an experience, you see things differently or you show up in the world differently.
And this was one of those moments.
Now, I had self-serving motivation for cleaning those toilets.
I grew up in a home where service was both modeled for me and expected from me.
And I even asked my mom this week as I was reflecting on today, I'm like, why? Why was that important to you? And We had a good conversation and ultimately gratitude is what she said.
I wanted you to understand what it is to live from gratitude.
But even though service was expected from me, like many of you, I'd guess, not all, because I have heard some of your stories, but many, I would guess, that didn't often include gross tasks, right? Maybe sometimes, like cleaning up your own messes or whatever, but I wasn't doing really gross stuff.
But then, when I was in college, I wanted to go, my sophomore or junior year, I wanted to go with a group to the UK for like a little trip in the spring.
group from the department that I was in but in order to go right I had to raise money College, right? So I'm grateful.
My parents gave me money for the trip.
They did help support it.
However, they taught me the responsibility of having to contribute myself, which meant having to raise money.
And so the group of us that were going, we got together and said, OK, what can we do to raise money? And so what we did was we offered our cleaning and organizational services to other college students.
Those who were able and wanted to buy them, we said, or pay for our time, we said, we will come and do whatever you haven't done, don't want to do.
We are here to serve.
Yeah, I appreciate that you're giggling already.
Yeah, do you know what the task most people didn't want to do is? Yes, clean the toilets.
Yes.
Clean the toilets.
I still have vivid memories of being on my hands and knees in these shared college bathroom toilets.
gross.
Yeah, absolutely.
This was a world-changing shift for me.
That's one of the things that the author of our book talks about, the book that accompanies our series.
He talks about world-changing shifts, moments when as a result of an experience, you see things differently or you show up in the world differently.
And this was one of those moments.
Now, I had self-serving motivation for cleaning those toilets.
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