Metro Christian Fellowship
544 E 99th St, Kansas City, MO 64131
October 19, 2014
Different Ethnic/racial Demographic
The worship service had similar order of service as my home church. Worship, prayer, reading of the word, offering and the message. Something unique, I thought, that this church did was take a 5-10 minute intermission right before the message to greet one another and get coffee/tea and donuts. More differences were the worship was Contemporary Christian Music and was done with only the stage lights on. The lights above the congregation were turned on after the worship was over. Another thing I thought was interesting was that the church was predominantly white, but the neighborhood they building is in is a low-income predominantly black neighborhood.
I found the worship most interesting about the church. It was in the dark, people were sitting, standing, raising hands, walking around praying, and on their knees. It was refreshing because people were not adhering to some unspoken code of how to worship. Each person expressed worship to God as they felt led. The message also interested me because the pastor spoke a lot about reacting to the situations of the community their church was in. When I usually attend a mostly white church they talk about God’s love and relating to God on an individual level. This pastor was talking about action the congregation could take to show that community God’s love and get involved in creating a better place for the neighborhood.
The themes from the one service I attended were about loving the neighbor as oneself. They had a carnival for the community the day before and they were discussing as a church how they have seen this one event encourage a few people in the neighborhood and how they could do more for the community. They want to see their neighbors have what they need and choose God. This is pretty consistent with what I hear at my home church and they did not really present ideas that I thought to be different from my home church.
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