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Heartbroken by violence, Alabama pastor washes feet of police officers, black parishioner

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Jul 13 2016 8:53 PM

The events that have happened nationwide over the past week, including the massacre of five Dallas police officers, angered Mike Yarbrough.


"It's not so much just about the officers, but the divisiveness and what it's doing to the people I work with, my friends, the people of this country,'' said Yarbrough, a longtime Jefferson County sheriff's lieutenant. "People were taking sides and it just bothered me greatly. I was in a bad place. I was an angry person."


But an unexpected act by his pastor at McCalla's Grace Life Baptist Church on Sunday lifted that darkness in a mighty way. The Rev. Joel Frederick called Yarbrough, Birmingham police Officer J. Logan and church member Adrian Robinson to the altar for a foot washing, a move that surprised the congregation and left not a dry eye in the house.


"I felt on Saturday like God was telling me to do that. It was just heavy,'' Frederick told AL.com. "I told my wife to pray for me, that God was telling me to do something but I didn't even tell her what it was."


"God was speaking to me. I know it's cliché, but it was 'What would Jesus do?'" the pastor said. "We don't live in a world of a lot of doing, just a lot of talking. God wanted to cut through the noise."


Visibly emotional at Sunday's 9 a.m. service, Frederick told the congregation he was hurting over the shootings in Minnesota, Louisiana, Dallas and the fallout that followed. "I'm just heartbroken. I'm heartbroken for where we as a people, as a nation, are,'' he told the congregation. "I don't have a lot to say about it. The Bible says when words are many, sin is present. The best thing I knew to do was to be like Jesus."


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