A Church to Call Home

After our fifth Sunday visiting a local church, we think we may have finally found our church. It is a traditional church with a young pastor, only 25 years, straight out of seminary (it's weird that I'm calling 25 young). He and his wife live in what we are assuming is the parsonage on the other side of the lawn from the church. Mat is going to schedule an appointment for us to meet with him sometime this week to discuss the church's core beliefs, mission statement, etc. We also mentioned to him that we may be interested in getting involved with the youth. I really miss youth ministry, I think even more so than Mat, because he's still able to do a form of youth ministry with his team. One of the main things we were looking for in a church was a pastor that preached from the Word, and he definitely does this. Today, his first fourish minutes of the message was a medley of scripture that he quoted from memory. He is currently going through 1 John and uses scripture throughout his sermon.

We really enjoy how friendly the people of the church are, but they don't hold a candle to the friendliness of Brookside, the super-dooper friendly church. Abby seems to enjoy the nursery, she knows exactly where the baby dolls are and goes straight to them every time. This is the oldest church in town, founded in the 1700's. The church does not have a website, but below is a picture of the current building.

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