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April 6, 2011

family church, as opposed to that other kind of church


Week four we decided to try our second church in Plymouth. The first week in Plymouth didn’t go so well (you can find more on that here). We were hoping this week would be better. We walked in, were greeted, and handed an eight-page bulletin, front and back.

Although we had already been to this denomination in a previous week we added it to the list to create a better variety of churches. Unfortunately, this time neither Jess nor I liked this church. There was nothing particularly bad about it, but there was nothing particularly good about it.

One thing that was unusual is that every first Sunday the church has a “family” service. Many churches have family services a few times a year.  I am sure others even have it as frequently as this church. This Sunday there wasn’t even a normal sermon, just a homily for the children. I have never been to a church that has totally taken out the sermon in a service.  

This church usually full of Catholic rejects and delinquents seemed as if it wasn’t full of that particular population but rather as if they just had the wrong sign on the outside. Lots of kneeling, sitting, standing, sitting, kneeling, back to standing. For an hour and a half.  You get the point. It just wasn’t for us.

On the bright side, the two reverends seemed nice, smart, even funny. But, it just didn’t feel right. After church we shook off our shoes and left.

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