text: 1. Under the leadership of your Pastor or group leader, each\n   participating person writes his own name on a piece of paper which is\n   then put into a box, to be drawn. Participation should be voluntary,\n   but all Christians should be encouraged to participate.\n   \n   2. Then, each participant draws one name randomly from the box. This\n   is the name of his "footwash partner" for this ceremony. As each\n   person draws a name, he reads the name out loud and pairs off with his\n   footwash partner. People whose names have already been drawn will\n   already have a footwash partner, the person who drew their name, so\n   they will not draw a name from the box. If you draw your own name or\n   the name of someone who has already been paired off, discard that name\n   and draw another. Thus, all participants will be grouped into pairs.\n   Try to get an even number of participants in each ceremony, so no one\n   is left without a partner.\n   \n   Make no distinction by age, sex, or marital status. It should be a\n   pure random drawing, which represents the fact that all Christians are\n   entitled to give and receive foot washing to and from all other\n   Christians.\n   \n   3. Each participant should provide his own water, basin, and towel to\n   wash the feet of his footwash partner. (Optionally, the church or\n   worship group can provide these supplies.) Jesus makes no mention of\n   using soap or oil, so soap or oil are not needed.\n   \n   4. All the footwashing should be done at the same time, with the\n   person who did the drawing washing his partner's feet first, then\n   getting his own feet washed afterwards, by his partner. Once the\n   pairing-off is accomplished, the procedure should only take a few\n   minutes to do.\n   \n   5. A new drawing should be conducted for each footwashing ceremony, so\n   that the footwash partners are constantly being changed. It is\n   understood that this level of physical intimacy, conducted randomly\n   with fellow Christians, is not usual in modern life. Too bad. It\n   should be. It was clearly the Lord's intention that we should care\n   directly for each other's physical needs, as if they were our own.\n   \n   6. Before the footwashing begins, the Leader of the ceremony should\n   read the authorizing Scriptures, John 13:13-15, Then he\n   should pray a prayer similar to the following:\n\n     O Lord, we try to follow your commands, including Your command for\n     us to wash each other's feet. Please be with now as we demonstrate\n     our love for one another, as You have loved us. In Jesus' holy name\n     we pray, Amen.\n\n\n   6. The footwashing ceremony should be conducted with the same\n   frequency as Holy Communion, recommended at least once a month,\n   preferably each week or more frequently.\n   \n   May the Lord richly bless you as you try each day to live by His\n   commands.\n\n    Yours in Christ,\n\n     Bill McGinnis  <><\n     bmcgin@patriot.net\n     http://www.patriot.net/users/bmcgin/chapel.html\n          http://www.LoveAllPeople.org\n          http://www.InternetDailyChapel.org\n\n\n   Contact: bmcgin@patriot.net.