'Anybody’s welcome': Florida pastor invites alligator to church; offers business card

A pastor at Victory Church in Lehigh Acres, Florida, US welcomed an alligator into congregation after it wandered to front gates nearby his church. While reptile had crawled out of a nearby storm drain, pastor was kind eugh to let it cleanse its sins saying that ‘anybody’s invited’ to worship Lord. “He came to our church. I don’t kw what his spiritual condition is,” lead pastor Daniel Gregory at Lehigh’s Victory church said in foot. He was also caught offering animal his business card. services are held between 9 am and 11 am Sunday mornings, he informed his ‘unusual’ visitor. 

“I need to invite this gator to church,” pastor can be heard saying, labelling reptile as “one of daycare workers” that came for a visit, although it “turns out to be a gator”.  “Want to check us out?” he goes on to add, as he walks up close to creature.

Gregory also uploaded photographs of gator on his Facebook handle with caption “When a Gator shows up to your church but isn’t ready to accept Lord.” Several onlookers can be seen standing clueless about gator’s next move as pastor gets "personal with big guy". “He’s coming to church, get ready,” said Gregory in a video that emerged online. 

predator, however, seemed to have denied to avail church service or pastor’s offer to baptize him as he scurried back into storm drain.

'Definitely t advisable,' warns Florida's conservation commission

Adam Brown of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission told Fox10 that while foot is pleasing in its viewing aspects, it is definitely t advisable to approach close to a wandering alligator, as he also warned that residents must “t to take that chance”. pastor, though, admitted in televised remarks that it may t have been “ best idea” to get near  wild animal in that fashion. FWC Nuisance Alligator Hotline at 866-FWC-GATOR rolled out digits cautioning people if re’s an alligator in vicinity it is advisable that one should like to have it removed instantly by wildlife experts.