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Palm Sunday in
Hollywood
Abby Faul
Harvey (ND) MB Church
When I first looked at the
ministry track list, I was lost. The choices were
endless! Finally I decided to just pick something that
sounded interesting and that’s how I ended up doing the
Palm Sunday church visit. I wasn’t really sure what was
going to happen or what I was getting myself into, but I
was excited.
When it was time for the ministry
tracks, our track leader announced that our group was
going to visit First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood.
Now I don’t know about you, but when I think of
Hollywood the first thing I think of isn’t church. So I
was anxious to see what types of people were going to be
there.
The director told us that this was
going to be like no other church service we had ever
been to before. As we pulled up into the parking lot,
our leader announced that the service we were going to
attend wasn’t being held in the actual church building,
but across the street at Vanguard, a nightclub.
I was amazed that we were actually
going to church in a nightclub! But what really amazed
me was that it didn’t matter to these people that the
night before, girls were dancing on the tables. It
didn’t matter that the congregation was made up of
people of all different races, ages, backgrounds and
people who were just different in general. They were in
church to learn about God.
Another thing that really
impressed me was the worship team. One of the leaders
was a girl who, as soon as we started singing, began to
dance! At first I was wondering what she was doing
because, to me at least, she looked really funny. But
after I had watched her for a few minutes, I realized
the reason she wasn’t aware of anyone watching her, was
because she was praising God, her way.
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