New Church Family

We have been visiting Grace Harbor Church every other week for the past 6 weeks and decided we want to be more than visitors. They - I mean "we" - meet on Sundays at 10 AM have have house churches that meet during the week if want to. They are like small groups. The preacher asked us to be involved with a group that meets on Thursday nights and is made up of a few young couples with various church backgrounds. One couple in particular that he would like us to get to know are Mormon converts (I may be asking Susan and Josh lots of questions) who are struggling a little with their families who are still LDS.

The church is probably about 70% former church of Christ members then a mix of everything else. My favorite thing about worshiping here is the way I feel when I leave. Everyone participates in worship and seems genuinely happy to be there. The singing is upbeat and alive. People think about the words they are singing and don't just drone on. People treat you like members of a family. Communion is served every week in a way I have never experienced before. We have several tables in the back of the auditorium that have bread (it looks kind of like a whole wheat pita) and grape juice poured into little cups. Everyone gathers around the tables at the end of the service and after a prayer, we all eat the bread and drink the juice at the same time. It seems to be more in tune with the way the first century church may have done it. Being gathered together around a table. Anyway, it feels more like we are communing together versus hurrying up to pass the plate.

We are having the preacher and his wife over for dinner on Tuesday to ask them questions and let them get to know us better. It dawned on me that we have NEVER had the preacher over for dinner at any of the places we have ever lived. I'm excited to get to know them and make more friends.