well, i first of all want to tell you i'm from The Netherlands. that means a lot of differences between our churches and yours. do you want to tell me something about your church? how is your sunday, do you have a good band with the other people of the church, how much people are in your church.. things like that?
i ask this because i'm struggling with some things in our own church, and i want to hear something about other churches. i want to choose the right church and i'm a bit confused..
please let me know!
God bless
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20 replies on this topic
Gabriella - 1/23/11 @ 5:28 AM
okay, George, thank you for your respond! it's really interesting to read from churches of other countrys. i also asked my question because i want to go to an outcast country when i passed my exam, next year. i want to go for 2 months then, and i'm not sure where i want to go. maybe i'll go to India. in a month i'll go to India, and when i really enjoyed the working there, maybe i'll come back. but i also have a niece in Uganda, Africa, and i also can go to her. i also can go to America, where some friends of me live.. i don't really know, but if i'll go to America, i'll find a church to go to on sundays.. do you understand?
God bless
andrea statler - 1/23/11 @ 1:31 PM
as far as my church goes, we have about 150 ppl in our church, and its a traditional church as far as music goes, but my pastor, david webster, reallly relates the bible to YOUR life. however, I am in a modern contemporary praise band that performs once a month with guitars drums and a piano as well. we have many opportunities as a youth group to get out and help in our community, as well as mission work out of state.
KingsKid - 1/23/11 @ 4:30 PM
The church that I go to is very small. The pastor is right now focusing on the Tv ministry which God has given him. Anyways, as far as worship, we mainly sing older songs, hymns, and choruses which I like very much! Most everyone knows them and can join in, but we also sing praise and worship. When we have conferences there are lots of people coming. Right now we only have about 20 people but they aren't all regualrs, so it is pretty small right now. Our pastor believes in old-fashioned preaching, but his messages are always easy to understand, and he tells stories of his evangelistic trips as well sometimes.
Are you going to do mission work when you pass your exam?
fight.for.Christ. - 1/23/11 @ 6:04 PM
My church (Saddleback) is actually pretty big, but that isn't what matters. I usually don't go to the Sunday services (I go on Saturday), but they're just as good as the Saturday ones :) Attendance wise... we usually have about 400-500 students in the High School Ministry services, and around 3,000 people at the Worship Center (main church). I'm really connected with the other involved students/staff in HSM, and I know a few people who are in the adult ministries.
I hope you find a great church for yourself & God bless :)
Kelsea - 1/23/11 @ 8:04 PM
I love my church :) . We haven't been attending too long,two and a half years, but it's great. It's very small, I'd say like 200 people, and only a handful of teenagers. But you have three optional services, traditional, contemporary, and a blend of both. So in the contemporary, which we attend, they sing newer worship songs. And they also play drums, guitar and piano.
We just got a new pastor in October, but he fits in with the church really great. Something I love that he brought in was the childrens sermons. At every comtemporary service, he has all the little kids come up and does a 'kid's sermon' and talks to the kids. It's so cute to see how kids see with eyes of faith!
They also have a pretty active youth group that's always doing something. Going to a waterpark, mission trips, movie nights.
So it's pretty great! But every church has something special about it, and it's not always the same!
Shelly-JCSO - 1/23/11 @ 9:38 PM
I go to The Rock in San Diego. I LOVE it! :D
It's a pretty large church (12,000+ people go each Sunday..about 2,000 each service). My Pastor, Miles McPherson, is awesome!! He has a great way with interacting with the crowd and getting us into the message.
Our services start with worship. Our church has their own band, but we also welcome other groups to play (The Katinas and the Godkins come a lot). After worship we have announcements and offering. Then Pastor Miles give the main message.
My church is a "Do Something" church. We have over 100 ministries that go out and serve the community. Each year we pledge hundreds of thousands of community service hours. Pastor Miles also writes books and travels to work with other churches and ministries.
The website for my church is sdrock.com (to watch live on Sundays it's sdrock.com/live ). :)
Gabriella - 1/24/11 @ 2:51 AM
@andrea statler: thanx for your respond. i think it's very nice that a band plays in your church. we only have a organ in our church, and our church is not very modern.. the organisation of our church thinks it's not right to play guitar or drums or instruments like that.. so that's a point i don't understand in our church..
@kingskid: okay, thanx too for your respond! it seems you got a very nice church to go! and yes, my plan is that i'll go to a mission trip when i passed my exam. is there any mission trip in the USA you know? i'm still searching. i want to do something for children, or building seems me also very good! i want to help people who needs it.. i'm still not sure what i've to do. but i also like the african countrys very much!
do you know something?
@ fight for christ: thank you for your respond too! i like it to read about other churches, so thanks again!
@ kelsea: well, by us in Holland is a church of 200 people not small, i think:) we got very much sorts of protestantism churches and everyone thinks he's the right church..:S and i think it's great to hear that your band of the church uses a drum and guitar and piano. if you look to my respond to andrea, you can see why;)
@ jcsocialoutcast: thanks too! thanks for the website, it really seems a nice church! it was amazing to see the big church of you! sooo very big! i'm in a church with around 300 people, and yeah, than is 2000 people very much! even my school doesn't have so much people;)
@everybody: thank you for your respond again! it's really interesting to read about other churches! thanks everybody again!
God bless, Gabriella
PutHisBloodOnIt - 1/24/11 @ 2:57 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR0IRzy9MCc (check out this video from my church Gabriella its funny this is my pastor rapping lol)
Gabriella - 1/24/11 @ 5:17 AM
ok PHBOI, i can't watch it cuz my filter blocked it, but a friend of me is looking..:) i think it'll be fun, i let you know if i heard about it:)
thanks:)
Jon - 1/24/11 @ 8:46 AM
I love my church, I go to calvary Lighhouse. We're kinda small (roughly 100 people) but its awsome. Its very contemporary and my pastor preaches relevant to everyday life.
Gabriella - 1/24/11 @ 9:00 AM
okay, thank you Jon for your respond!
God bless you all guys!
Vanessa - 1/24/11 @ 9:21 AM
I go to a church of about 30 people when I'm in Canada, but it's very rare that many people are at a Sunday service because a lot of us travel a lot and there are some missionaries in my church as well. Our main musical instrument is the piano but occasionally someone will play the guitar instead. Until about three years ago we didn't have a pastor and all the men just took turns speaking. Even now that we have a pastor, they all take turns speaking on a different Sunday and the ladies take turns leading worship. There are no teens in the church but there are two younger kids (5 and 3 years old). There is Sunday school for them (which I teach) but not really many other programs. My church operates a Bible Camp for two weeks during the summer so everyone is very involved in that.
KingsKid - 1/24/11 @ 6:54 PM
@Gabriella : I am in Canada, so I don't know of mission trips in the USA. But here in Canada there is need for work ministering to the homeless and poor plus other things. I would love to go to Africa some day! I am studying it right now for my school and it is a very interesting continent. I like it very much. The instruments we have in our church are guitar for sure and than sometimes I play a keyboard.
Teah - 1/24/11 @ 7:04 PM
Im in the U.S. and i go to your typical 'traditional' church. We have sunday school that our 'elders' dictate on what we study, then we go to our sermon. We have a new pastor man and he's actually not all that nice, hes very resistant to change, however he changed a lot of things on coming yo our church. First we have our little greeter person get up in front and talk for a few minutes, then we 'worship'. Yes, with quotes because really NOONE gets into it at my church. at least anymore, our pastor is into only playing old style hymns, that our band tries to put to a guitar and some drums to jazz them up a bit, but really, it doesn't help that we don't know the realy meaning behind most of the songs. Then we listen to announcements and his sermon and then we go. We used to gather arround for about an hour after church everyday, (everyone would) just to talk and mingle and catch up and stuff, but now noone stays.. actualy fewer people in general come, its really sad. But thats my church, in the middle of nowhere USA. : P
Gabriella - 1/25/11 @ 5:57 AM
@ vanessa: thanks for your respond, it's nice to read about it! i pray for your church that there may come more people and teens!
@ kingskid: okay, but I don't care if it is in Canada or in the USA:) i only want to go to a country where i can speak english and i really don't care where:)how old are you, if i may ask? and are U a girl or a boy? and do you want to go to a mission trip too than?
@teah, thanks too for your respond! i pray for your church that it may come a blessed church!!
thanks all again!
KingsKid - 1/25/11 @ 4:13 PM
@Gabriella: My username does tend to confuse people. I am a 17 year old girl. Yes, someday I would like to go on a mission trip.
Gabriella - 1/26/11 @ 11:26 AM
@kingskid:
okay, yeah, i couldn't find it on your accout so i thought, i ask you..:$
well, i'll say you when i'll go to a mission trip. when you've got an interesting project of mission you want to go to, please let me know! maybe i want to go to it too;P
KingsKid - 1/26/11 @ 5:15 PM
Okay! :)
Xima - 1/27/11 @ 5:58 AM
This Site is amazing!! Im so glad I found it. Gabriella I know how you feel about church in the Netherlands I live there also, I use to live in the United States for a couple years and church here and there are so different. People here in the Netherlands go to church but it doesnt seem like they really want to be there, they seem kind of dead inside and that its just a weekely routien they are use to. Maybe I see it wrong but at the Pinkster it seems like that. I want to help these churches grow and spread Gods love all over Europe people care to much about their money and material things. We need to focus on God!! Where do you go to Church Gabriella? if you dont mind me asking.
Gabriella - 1/27/11 @ 7:30 AM
hi Xima! it's very wonderfull that you've respond at this topic! thank you for your questions and quotes!
in the Netherlands very most of the times the people are going to church as weekely routine. you are absolutely right. and really nearly everyone don't want to go to the church. i know it, and i think it's horrible. really.
but, at the other side, there ARE people who wants to go to church. that are the people who get saved by Christ and want to know more and more of Him. i hear very much teens saying: i only go because my parents say that i've to go. when i could choose i won't go. yeah, i pray so really that that thinkings may be go away. i really wish that that teens will see that God is the one where you live for. it really hurts me when i see it's pure routine and not more than that.
and yes, it's also the bad reality.
i'm going to church in Aagtekerke. i don't think you know where it is, it's a very little place in Zeeland. maybe you can google it. if i say i go to the Gereformeerde Gemeenten, does that say anything? it's a part of the calvinism churches.
where do you live in the Netherlands than? i really want to know it!
and, i've got one question. can you speak Dutch than, if you lived here? or are you living here for your study..?? let me know!
and, i really don't mind! absolutely not! it's nice to talk about things which are really interesting!!
God bless ya