Several weeks ago, our church got word that the hall we were renting for our Sunday service and Wednesday Prayer Meeting would be demolished. Alarmed, we scrambled for a place to rent on such short notice. There were already plans to move to another place, but this time we had to move fast! Calling some members of the congregation, we made plans to temporarily relocate some of our church equipment. Ruth and me found ourselves housing the four huge speaker units of our church in our new apartment.
Where to hold our worship service? Some church officers sought approval to hold our services in a seminar hall two blocks behind Capitol Medical Hospital along Quezon Ave. While waiting for that approval, we needed a place for Nov. 4. Guess where God led us? In McDonald's, Quezon Ave.!
Church was never more different for most of us that Sunday. We booked a party room from 10-2. We conducted our regular worship service, complete with hymns and preaching. And because it was the first Sunday...we had our Lord's Supper! Because the room was surrounded by glass, people inside and outside McDo were curiously looking (or pretending not to look). The McDo staff were very helpful. And all of us had McDo's chicken fillet meal for lunch. It was airconditioned and the kids had fun at the play area. It was a serious, fun, casual worship service—very different!
It's one of those situations where God reminds you that the church is foremost the people rather than the building. And that where we worship, there He is with us. And He is everywhere.
God provided the hall behind Capitol Med and we'll be there for six months. But that McDo Worship Service was really an experience.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
Wow! That's new :) McDo Christian Fellowship. And you're right - Church is the people. Next stop - Jollibee?
Next level naman...Max's! Haha, yaman!
gandang experience yun, kuya!:) totoo talaga na when 2 or 3 are gathered in His name, there He shall be! galeng no? that's the kind of God we have--astig :D
Post a Comment