A Truly United Church

Sue says:

It was a pleasure on Sunday to visit a church that is joyfully multi-cultural.

There are at least eight language groups that attend that church, and they have found ways to incorporate the groups into a happy congregation. The Sunday service is held in English, with some pidgin mixed in, as languages common to all.

During the week, each language groups is a "cell group" that cares for the needs of its own members. We heard each group consists of about eight families. The thing that was striking was the joy that the people displayed as they met together on a Sunday morning.

Each week a different group is the designated servant. For that week the servant cleans the church building and places flowers in the sanctuary. The group of the week also prepares some kind of song to sing in their language at the service. Then they serve snacks to visitors after the service. I believe they also give a gift to the pastor for his support that week. People of all ages worked together to perform all these services to the rest of the congregation.

Besides the groups serving each other, the pastor brought a message about the risen Christ meeting with His disciples after the resurrection. Another interesting thing was that the announcements were made AFTER the sermon.

It was a blessing to worship the Lord together with this congregation.