Park Street Baptist Church

Yeah! Another Sunday, another church!...

This starts to be a normal pattern in my Butte Collage life. Partying Saturday (this weekend was my first ever celebration of Halloween), get some hours of sleep before my alarm goes of to early, this Sunday at nine. Fifteen minutes marginal before the worship begins. After some google research i found out that the worship at Park Street Baptist Church doesn't start until 10:30, fantastic, some more minutes in bed.

This is the third church i visit in my cultural study. I can see some connection between the time the worship begins and a conservative look at the Christian religion. The Butte Catholic Community starts at 09:15 and is the church that best confirm the picture i had i mind before this church tour.
Church on the Rock that starts at ten is a little bit more rock'n roll. They have four to five people in the band and no church organ compare to the catholic church. And the baptist church had seven people playing and singin, they even start the worship with rockish church hallelujah music. And the earlier the worship starts, the higher age on people that attends. Both the baptist and the Church on the Rock worships i could classify as power-point-karaoke-events. Today on the baptist they had some kind of commercial for some Christmas giftbox. I thought i was a really god idea to give away shoe boxes filled with presents to people in poor countries. But the commercial made the whole thing feel a bit commercialized. But it made sense. Todays pastor did some connection between Youtube and his Hope topic. That would never had happened in the Catholic church. It's much talk around the finances crises, that it's only numbers. And i really agree with that. Even if you loose some money it's should make you feel bad. It's so much different things to care about. The topic for the day was Hope but the pastor talked so fast, i was almost that i get paid for each ten words he speak out. Hard to listening to. The others that has talked in the churhes had a complety different speaking behavior. More sensed and easier to listen to. Maybe it's me, becuse english is my second language? But i think the majority like like that pastor, new age pastor style, almost a little bit ghetto style.
Much more kids at this worship to. They served coffe and cookies before the worship, that made it a good feeling while entering the worship. And the church was inside a public school and that also helped the un-conservative feeling of worships. And after this meeting some guy invited us to a meeting in the SUB this evening. That they have someone after the worship that connects with new people seems like a returning behavior.

The sum of the days worship is that i choose the Park Street Baptist Church as my favorite so far.


/Rikard