Four times a year, the four congregations meet in the church's main sanctuary for a combined worship service, where they do the Lord's Supper and baptisms together. The four pastors share the preaching responsibility, each pastor taking one Sunday, providing the sermon and the special music.
"The Chinese and Hispanic congregations bring their hymnbooks so everybody can sing the hymns in their native language," said Wilson. "You may be singing Amazing Grace in English while the people around you are singing in Spanish and Cantonese. Just a lot of fun; it's like what you think heaven is going to be like. It's a great way of doing ministry."
Reminds me of the Newsboys’ song “He Reigns”:
It’s the song of the redeemed
Rising from the African plain
It’s the song of the forgiven
Drowning out the Amazon rain
The song of Asian believers
Filled with God’s holy fire
It’s every tribe, every tongue, every nation
A love song born of a grateful choir
It’s all God’s children singing Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, He reigns
Separate services for separate languages, I get it. Except for the “African/American” part.
This church must have a really big parking lot!
I hope to never understand the southern segregation disaster.
My church in Minneapolis, MN has blacks, Hispanics, whites, African immigrants, Asian. we don't seperate them. We are all children of God.
Celebrate diversity!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!