Ask First Baptist Church Clinton, Mississippi, preschoolers about their professional aspirations and you’ll get the gamut from Power Rangers and Cinderella to Mr. Bubba … Bubba Cagle, that is, church facilities manager extraordinaire.
Mr. Bubba is the fix-it man at First Baptist Church Clinton, weekday preschool director Kim Evrard said of the church that averages just over 500 in Sunday worship.
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“Mr. Bubba does everything for us. I mean, all we have to do is text Mr. Bubba and he’s on it,” Evrard said. “He doesn’t just take care of us. He takes care of our whole church.”
Perhaps it naturally flows that preschoolers would want to be like Mr. Bubba.
When the preschool held its annual “Dress As What You Want To Be When You Grow Up Day” Sept. 19, one 4-year-old boy exclaimed, “When I grow up, I want to be Mr. Bubba.”
Star status
Dressing like Mr. Bubba garnered the pupil and Mr. Bubba himself star status in a video that has gone viral since church communications director Laura Ivy posted it online. The video was shared Sept. 23 on NBC’s The Today Show, and is making its rounds among the major networks, with ABC also planning to air the clip, according to the church’s Facebook page.
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