I am worshiping with established Redwood City churches in order to learn what they are already doing. My hope is to imagine a faith community that is different from these churches in order to engage people in God's mission who are not already so engaged (the unchurched or dechurched); I don't want to cannibalize existing churches. My posts on my local church visits will be descriptions, not evaluations.
Redwood City Church #14
Denomination: United Methodist Church
Facility: Traditional church building
Location: Central Redwood City
Pew Bible: ?
Theological House: Moderate Protestant
Worship Services: 1 on Sunday mornings; 1 on Sunday afternoons (Tongan)
Worship Style: Traditional
On a drizzly Sunday morning, I joined about 30 others to worship God in a traditional (and somewhat dilapidated) church building. The worship space had room for hundreds more. Four of us were Anglo (the other three elderly women), the rest Tongan (including several teens and children). The Tongan pastor's English was better than my Tongan. In-between traditional songs and prayers, he gave a brief message that I struggled to understand.
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