Church Visit #2

We worshiped at our second area church this morning: Emmaus Road Church in neighboring Hopkins. I don't think we feel a need to visit many more--we've liked the two we've been to, so now it'll be just to narrow down between the two. This was a smaller church than Sanctuary was--much smaller. They did have a lot of kids, though, so the boys had a lot of fun. This time we definitely weren't in the minority--there was only one non-white person--which was a bit of a disappointment. The worship was led by Joel Hanson, former lead singer of the band PFR. He's definitely used to being on stage. There was a guest speaker (we have a notorious tendency to visit churches on days when things aren't normal--though, are things ever normal in a church), who gave a good message on Acts 3.

Emmaus Road was a plant of a community church in 2005; they joined the Covenant in 2006. They meet in a community center, but I think there's a good sense of community among the people. They're still a growing church and we can see how it'd be easy to plug into being part of things.

It's been a while since we've really been in a position of choosing a church to attend. The Evangelical Covenant Church has been wonderful to us, so we haven't had to look outside of the denomination, which helps in not looking at every single church around us. But we've got a number of Covenant churches around us. And it seems that we could fit into most of them. It's not easy to pick a community that you want to be a part of without really knowing them--and, true, we could get to know them first for a while, but we also want to get plugged in to a community fairly soon.