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« on: October 26, 2003, 03:46:43 PM » |
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I've just been kind of wondering what sort of churches people here go to. Denomination... how many services do they have on Sunday... what sort of music do you sing... etc etc.
Just for interest's sake.
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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2003, 04:23:56 PM » |
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I go to St. Mark Evangelical Lutheran Church in Trenton, NJ. It is not "St. Mark's" like some people like to say because that implies that it belongs to St. Mark. It is liturgical with two services on Sundays (except during the summers where there is one due to vacations and so forth), Bible study on Tuesday, and we stick with the hymns. My wife and I also help with the youth ministry - we used to be in charge of it, but thankfully an older couple stepped-up and took the reigns.
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2003, 05:07:57 PM » |
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my church kicks ass (is that a sacrilegeous sentence?).  it's zion church pca (presbyterian church in america). we have two services on sunday morning, which are the same but at different times. the music is a mixture of traditional (hymns with organ, piano, brass) and modern (choruses with piano, guitars, percussion, etc.). we have lots of families and "old school" people who've been attending the core church group thruoghout its 30ish years of evolution, and we also have experienced a lot of growth, particularly of young 20somethings/college students, over the past few years. the teaching is biblical and solid. it's kind of an odd mixture of a lot of things, and i feel truly blest to be a part of it. |
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« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2003, 05:45:37 PM » |
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Hey! My church kicks ass, too! And it happens to be a PCA, as well.
One service on Sunday morning. Hymns with a choir and organ. No youth group. Nothing that's even remotely entertaining. Man, I love it.
Wildly diverse mixture of members. We get a ton of pholks come from the University of Tennessee, and we also have a large population of elderly pholks.
And bloop, you're cool because you're a Lutheran. If there was no PCA church in the area, I'd go to a Lutheran one.
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« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2003, 06:48:48 PM » |
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My home church is Southside Baptist of Norman PArk, GA. It's a tiny church in a tiny town with about 100 people. Everything is rather traditional. There are alot of old people, older people(my parents' age), and younger people, but all of my life, I have been the only person my age there so I have been in the adult class(with my parents) since i was about 15.
When I'm here in Athens, I attend Green Acres Baptist Church. It's the place to be(corny, I know but the preacher actually says it every Sunday). It has several hundred people and has an orchestra which is cool. There is a fairly large college group which means there are people my age. There are also a lot of UGA faculty who attend.
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« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2003, 07:44:56 PM » |
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I attend a Baptist church, which my father pastors. The music consists of both hymns and more modern worship music. I don't always enjoy the music but I'd like to think I attempt to at least try. We have a wide mixture of age groups, which is nice. Our youth group is quite large, as is our senior adult group. We had to go to two services a while back, which is both a good and a not so good thing. We currently have the best pastor known to man. And I'm not at all biased.
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« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2003, 08:29:39 PM » |
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I attend Grace Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) in Knoxville, TN. I believe my pastor is the best and I am biased! My dad is the pastor =D . We certainly have a drastic difference between our types of services: traditional at 8 & contemporary and blended at 11 on Sunday morning.
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« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2003, 08:33:07 PM » |
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When I'm at home in Knoxville I attend my parents' church. It's Evangelical Free, which is actually a denomination though nobody's heard of it...I really like them. The teaching is great and the worship is varied and fun. They don't sing a lot of traditional hymns, which is too bad because I actually really like many of them, but it's impossible NOT to get into the worship at Fellowship (the name of the church).
Here in Blackburg I'm pretty bad about going to church (sleep...), but when I can drag myself out of bed I usually go to a moderate-sized Baptist church. They're fairly traditional, with a piano and organ and a choir, but they sing a mix of modern and traditional. The teaching isn't all that great, but it's not too bad. There's a good mix of people there, from college students my age to townies with their kids to elderly people. They actually have donuts at 9:30, but I'm never up at 9:30...
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« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2003, 08:40:31 PM » |
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I attend Grace Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) Mine is ELCA-variety of Lutheran (which is redundant given what the "L" is). I guess I'm supposed to hate you or something, but I just can't.  |
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« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2003, 09:03:15 PM » |
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but it's impossible NOT to get into the worship at Fellowship (the name of the church).
I would argue with you on that one, but I'm not one to bash individual churches, especially one that I actually have some degree of respect for, like Fellowship. |
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« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2003, 10:11:39 PM » |
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My home church is Southside Baptist of Norman PArk, GA. It's a tiny church in a tiny town with about 100 people. Everything is rather traditional. There are alot of old people, older people(my parents' age), and younger people, but all of my life, I have been the only person my age there so I have been in the adult class(with my parents) since i was about 15.
When I'm here in Athens, I attend Green Acres Baptist Church. It's the place to be(corny, I know but the preacher actually says it every Sunday). It has several hundred people and has an orchestra which is cool. There is a fairly large college group which means there are people my age. There are also a lot of UGA faculty who attend. Norman Park??? I'm about 15 minutes from there. I guess it truly is a small world after all. |
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« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2003, 09:03:22 AM » |
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I would argue with you on that one, but I'm not one to bash individual churches, especially one that I actually have some degree of respect for, like Fellowship. I knew when I wrote it that you would say something about that I should qualify it to say that it's impossible for ME to not get into the worship there. Even when I arrive at church in a really bad mood and not feeling like worship at all, the enthusiasm of the singers and players and the energy of the congregation is infectious :D |
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« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2003, 11:01:17 AM » |
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As for me, right now I'm attending Westside Presbyterian... a more contemporary sort of service than your average local Presbyterian church, and there's a whole lot of young people. There's three services, but two of them are in Korean so I go to the 1:30pm English service. This week the songs were "Holy, Holy, Holy", "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever" and a few misc songs and at least one that was written in-house. I'm having a meeting with Pastor Paul An this week to talk about what they're all about, what they believe, and stuff like that. But it's totally different from where I used to go, Toronto OCRC, where there were hymns and nothing else, piano and nothing else, and Dutch people and nothing else. Skraps |
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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2003, 01:01:00 PM » |
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I am a member (and have been for 12 years or so) of Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopalian Church, or for short, Union Bethel AMEC. (AME is the denomination.) As you can probably guess, it's a good ol' black church that can actually trace its history back to the days of slavery. I believe we are Methodist by doctrine (although a bit more conservative, I think), but Episcopal in government and liturgy. For instance, we have bishops and archbishops, etc., but no pope (because we are Protestant). The teaching is generally solid (although, because of my head pastor, I have ceased to attend it, due to a shaky sermon (it wasn't anything heretical--it just had nothing to do with the Bible/spiritual issues) that he preached a month ago...but I plan to write a letter about that, and hopefully start to go back again). We do have 2 assistant women pastors. Rev Mouzon is my favorite. She is an excellent pastor. And if there was any one woman that could prove that God can call women to be pastors too, it's her. And her sermons are *always* well-grounded in the Scriptures.
We have two services, three on Easter and Christmas. We have a choir with a keyboardist/organist, a pianist, and a bassist. No guitar! We sing traditional hymns and contemporary gospel songs. Everything has a beat. You can clap to the music. Just about everyone sways to the music. This is not charasmatic, but rather just the nature of black churches in general. I really enjoy it, and that is why I would rather not search for another church home, because I like gospel-oriented services better than contemporary, generally white music (that's the best way I can describe it to set up a contrast, I'm not degrading it...I led contemporary worship at my high school for two years). It's kind of big, but not huge. We are very involved in the community and there is a youth group and Sunday school program, neither of which I have really been involved in.
Overall, it's a good solid church.
PS: To all you PCA people out there. My uncle is one of eight or nine black PCA pastors in the country. He's been on the radio before. For those of you who don't know, African-Americans tend not to be people you will find in a Presbyterian church. I was baptized Presbyterian, but obviously, now my church is AME not PCA.
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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2003, 02:04:32 PM » |
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PS: To all you PCA people out there. My uncle is one of eight or nine black PCA pastors in the country. He's been on the radio before. For those of you who don't know, African-Americans tend not to be people you will find in a Presbyterian church. I was baptized Presbyterian, but obviously, now my church is AME not PCA. who's your uncle? |
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« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2003, 06:32:06 PM » |
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Pastor Stan Long. It's very funny, because just the other day someone mentioned him to me. He's near famous here in Maryland. Well, not really. But you know. |
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« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2003, 12:14:53 PM » |
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i also attend bethany's church-- zion. in fact, my dad is the pastor. 8-) i was surprised, reading this thread, by how many pastor's kids there are around here. go PK's! |
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« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2003, 04:51:04 PM » |
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Well, you know the saying... Pastor's kids are good for nothing. |
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« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2003, 08:17:24 PM » |
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i was surprised, reading this thread, by how many pastor's kids there are around here. go PK's! PKs unite!  |
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« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2003, 08:33:57 PM » |
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I go to First Baptist Concord....but so many people go there that it has nicknames like six flags over Jesus and stuff like that..but we have a great mixture of all ages...our youth group is great..and we sing some hymns and some new stuff..its pretty even. Our pastor is great..Dr. Doug Sager..his sermons really relate to everyone i think, he's on the international mission board...we're really into missions too.and VBS is huge at our church..we're supposed to have like the 3rd largest VBS in the country or something. But i worked at it this year..and it really is fun and i learned alot. But it's kewl and i love it. =D
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« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2003, 09:22:58 PM » |
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i also attend bethany's church--zion.
me too! |
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« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2003, 03:48:20 PM » |
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I go to a Pentecostal Church... Evangel Community Church. It's really up to date. We have all the latest gadgets, brand new everything, and obviously loaded with money. We sing all new songs, mainly Hillsongs and Passion's stuff...
...and I'm sick of it. Everything is commercialized garbage. We have practice after practice of "worship" till we've completely stripped everything spiritual from it. Creative or different people get ignored if they don't fit into the tight, narrow-minded ideals.
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« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2003, 04:40:11 PM » |
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No good, Iris.
I'm afraid many of today's churches have a way of squashing what is truly spiritual and what is truly artful--basically what is truly Christian. And it's sad.
Are you thinking of finding another church home, Iris?
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« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2003, 05:43:32 PM » |
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Are you thinking of finding another church home, Iris? nah, not really. I think I'm here for a reason.. I just dont know what that is yet. |
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« Reply #24 on: November 10, 2003, 08:08:39 PM » |
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I go to Fellowship... the one my brother wrote about. I've loved it for years, and I still do... but last Sunday I saw my church from new eyes for some reason...
we sell cappaccino in the halls... and the Jr. High is just sickening. They have X-Boxes and air hockey and fusball and a basketball court. A basketball court!! What kind of a church is that??
I think Jesus might be turning some tables at my church...
So I'm making a movie with one of my friends. We started it on Sunday and next sunday we're actually going to film some of the stuff in my church that we don't like... if it turns out well we'll post it on the Base... but it's not just a church bashing video... it has a point...
but that's what I've been going through right now.
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« Reply #25 on: November 10, 2003, 08:17:50 PM » |
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Wow. That actually sounds really good. Keep us updated on how it goes.
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« Reply #26 on: November 10, 2003, 08:58:44 PM » |
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we sell cappaccino in the halls... and the Jr. High is just sickening. They have X-Boxes and air hockey and fusball and a basketball court. A basketball court!! What kind of a church is that?? That's one of the reasons I have little affiliation with the youth groups and other programs in that church...the worship and teaching is great; the youth porgrams are not so much. Of course, now I guess I'd be in the college programs, and the college guy is great. Hmm...maybe I should give it a shot, assuming I can overcome my laziness... |
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« Reply #27 on: November 10, 2003, 09:01:24 PM » |
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That's one of the reasons I have little affiliation with the youth groups and other programs in that church...the worship and teaching is great; the youth porgrams are not so much. Of course, now I guess I'd be in the college programs, and the college guy is great. Hmm...maybe I should give it a shot, assuming I can overcome my laziness... Statistically speaking, teens who attend youth group are far less likely to continue going to church as adults, and I think Mark has found the reason. They expect church to be entertaining, and, sometimes, it just ISN'T. |
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« Reply #28 on: November 11, 2003, 07:29:16 PM » |
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I go to Westwood Mennonite Brethren. A lot of people get weirded out by the "Mennonite" part, but we're really not much different from most Baptist churches...except we are pacifists by doctrine (meaning a lot of people at my chuch aren't pacifist, but it's in our offical doctrine).
The reason I go to the church I do is not because of the denomination it is (in fact, I think if I moved, I wouldn't go to another MB church, but that's another story) but because of how awesome my church is. It is the largest church in town...600 members or so - but attendance is probably more like 1000 people every sunday.
We have two services, 9:15 and 11:00, but they are both exactly the same - none of this "contemporary vs. traditional" stuff. The music is a good blend of new worship music, old hymns (sometimes set to more updated music), and older worship stuff. Our worship team is usually about 10 people, and we have an awesome chior. My church is heavy into the "fellowship and connecting" idea - we strive to have every person in the church attending a small group/bible study. Our youth groups are awesome, and there is a huge group (over 70 people) that are college-aged. We have 6 paid pastors. As my pastor likes to joke about, our church looks like a mall. The building is only 10 years old, and is much bigger than most churches in town (well, besides the Catholic churches). The funny thing is, we really don't have enough room and we're starting an expansion project that is going to increase the size of the youth room and library, and add a couple multi-purpose rooms.
I have to say, though, that what I love most about Westwood is the people. Everyone is really into participating and getting involved. It's really hard just to show up on Sunday morning, and then not think about church all week.
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