Kicker - Alligator evangelism

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Well, it’s always important to make sure that guests feel welcomed inside the church.

When a guest wandered off the street into a church in the Ft. Myers, Fla. area, the staff wasn’t quite sure how to react.

Victory Church Pastor Daniel Gregory told WBBH-tv...

GREGORY: One of the daycare workers wandered in and said ‘there’s a gator,’ and I was like ‘funny.’

But it wasn’t a prank.

The 4-foot gator strolled in after crawling out of a nearby storm drain.

GREGORY: He came to our church, so I don’t know what his spiritual condition is.

But the pastor greeted the guest as he would any visitor.

GREGORY: We have services at 9am and 11am Sunday mornings. You wanna check us out?

As one person commented on Gregory’s Facebook page … “let everything that has breath praise the Lord,” right?

BROWN: People, Mary! People!

REICHARD: It’s The World and Everything in It.

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