So, a few weeks ago I was waiting for the bus to go to work and a VW Bug pulled up to the intersection.  It looked like the bug from the Geek Squad - black and white with a round logo.  But this one said…

 GOD SQUAD

And various other things like, “Got God?” and the like.  There were a few other things written on it - websites and other contact information.  I unfortunately don’t remember any of them.

I’m lucky that there was someone else at the busstop with me who said, “hmm.  That’s different.”  I thought perhaps I was hallucinating, but I have a witness.

The modern VW Bug was black and white entirely, and attractively put together.  In the passenger seat was a youngish man, seemingly of an alternative crowd (think slender, lanky with mussed hair - very Bayview or East Side.  A pair of horn-rimmed glasses would have fit him perfectly.  Indie Rock? Or just Indie? I’m not sure what this style would be considered - K-Co, help me out here.  I should do a whole segment on these styles.)

I couldn’t see who was driving without seeming extremely obvious, and I wasn’t in an extremely obvious mood.  But I was definitely curious.

The other busstop waiter and I contemplated the purpose of this vehicle - it seemed as if parts of the information on the VW Bug were for drawing people to the ministry, but other parts were reaching out to the public.  It wasn’t overdone - but the messages were talking to different audiences.  Or perhaps they weren’t and I’m sufficiently a-religious enough to have missed them.  As a former Evangelical junkie, I would have thought that at least *I* would get the connection.  Apparently my turn to spirituality has nixed my ability to understand structured religious thought patterns.

So I finally remembered to look them up today.  And I can’t find a thing about a VW Bug saying GOD SQUAD.  But I did find some information about a popular set of speakers called The God Squad.  Apparently, they have a column and they also were on Imus in the Morning. 

Doing a little research (and I mean a little), I found that Rabbi Gellman is a Milwaukee native and former academic.  Perhaps this is the source of the God Squad VW Bug? 

Has anyone else seen this running around town? 

(note to self - must get tiny digital camera to take pics whereever I am as PROOF of my insanity.)