Well, we went to Church number 2 today on this long endeavor of finding a church. And it looks like we will be searching for another church next week. This church does not use KJV (which is a big NO-NO for the hubs) and believe in open communion. That was the only down side to it. They were very, very friendly! Grace I think is suffering from playing with another little girl. She saw one who was the same age as her and it was hard to get her to leave. She kept heading to the little girl! :-) I felt bad for her because I understand. We did sing OFF OF THE WALL!!! And they have a praise team so we sung some praise songs. The Invitation was a little different and I know if that was because the pastor had to leave early. But it was still a very SMALL nice church! There were about only 40 people there.
So 2 down, 5 more to go!
On a side note techincally this is the 3rd church we have been to but the second one on the blog. The first one we went to with Jamie's parents and we liked it but out of 200 people only 4 people came and shook our hands. I understand the whole deal of, "Wendi, they did not know you were a visitor." And that would have been ok if we had not walked into in a Independent and all of the ladies were in dresses. I was wearing jeans, because that is now what I wear to church but also my dresses and skirts (that I do own) were packed in a box somewhere. So I kind of stuck out like a sore thumb in my jeans.
Anyways, at some point we will go back to that church and I will make sure I blog more about them.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Church number 1
On our recent journey in finding a church home, I have found that there are 8 churches in the area that are baptist and at least somewhat of what I know. The other 3 churches that they have 2 are ABC and 1 is an Association of Reformed Baptist Churches (whatever that means lol).
Today we tried Church number 1. I had looked on their website last night and they had two services they had mentioned, Sunday: 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Which told me it was small, but it is still a baptist church to try out. Well, we get there today and those of you from Georgetown/Stamping Ground, the outside almost looks like Old Cedar. I thought at first I was in a twilight zone. But when you walked into the door (those of you who know Fairmont Baptist in Ohio), the inside almost looked like Fairmont. Very weird :)
The pastor introduced himself to us and talked to Jamie for a little bit. I did not know he was the pastor, because he did not say, "I am pastor so-and-so". A young lady who is around our age, came over and introduced herself to us. She had two small kids with her. Jamie said I had made her day by being another young mom in the church. Which I do feel bad for her because it is tough being the only young family in the church.
Well, the pastor goes up to the pulpit and leads the singing. Well the songs that he had picked out, I guess he decided were not fast enough for him, because he rushes through every song he sings. I leaned over and asked Jamie where the fire was, because how fast they were singing the songs. One song in particular, they were singing it so fast they almost sounded like they were speaking in tongues lol
I think Jamie and I figured the pastor probably was preaching for about a hour. Church started at 10:30 and we did not get out until about noon. The church was ok, but we both got into the truck and were like "Ummm, no"
So, 1 church definitely down and about 7 more to go. So on to the next church :-)
Today we tried Church number 1. I had looked on their website last night and they had two services they had mentioned, Sunday: 10:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Which told me it was small, but it is still a baptist church to try out. Well, we get there today and those of you from Georgetown/Stamping Ground, the outside almost looks like Old Cedar. I thought at first I was in a twilight zone. But when you walked into the door (those of you who know Fairmont Baptist in Ohio), the inside almost looked like Fairmont. Very weird :)
The pastor introduced himself to us and talked to Jamie for a little bit. I did not know he was the pastor, because he did not say, "I am pastor so-and-so". A young lady who is around our age, came over and introduced herself to us. She had two small kids with her. Jamie said I had made her day by being another young mom in the church. Which I do feel bad for her because it is tough being the only young family in the church.
Well, the pastor goes up to the pulpit and leads the singing. Well the songs that he had picked out, I guess he decided were not fast enough for him, because he rushes through every song he sings. I leaned over and asked Jamie where the fire was, because how fast they were singing the songs. One song in particular, they were singing it so fast they almost sounded like they were speaking in tongues lol
I think Jamie and I figured the pastor probably was preaching for about a hour. Church started at 10:30 and we did not get out until about noon. The church was ok, but we both got into the truck and were like "Ummm, no"
So, 1 church definitely down and about 7 more to go. So on to the next church :-)
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