We've found a church we like (so far)

Church was really good yesterday. Tiana and I tried a church, City Bible Church that was recommended by Luke. They don't have a website which made it hard to find them, but we did get their number in time and found that they had just moved to another location, closer to us--in the Frankton Market area!! That was great. This was their second week there.

We don't know what to expect when we enter the warehouse that is their church location. But friendly faces greet us immediately and we have a good talk with people from all different nations--including America. One of the pastors is from Texas and he and his wife just moved here in January. He LOVES Ohio State Football because he graduated from there. The other, main pastor who's been running the church for 6 years is Campbell. He knows Luke. He was very cool and down to earth. Then there was a girl who introduced us to everyone, Laurie, and she works for Campus Crusade for Christ at the University. There were also a few people who worked with Word of Life. I even managed to meet a few Graphic Design people and a few more sketchers and closet artists. Nice! The church is mostly made up of young adults, and people in their 30's I'd say. There are some young kids from all ages and a some of the older generation. It's definitely a newer church feel. There were about 120ish amount of people. Maybe more. We were all sitting on cream colored plastic lawn chairs. It was very casual and relaxing, but the message was awesome!! Since it was Pentecost Sunday, we read in Acts and the pastor had everyone turn to Acts in their Bible instead of just putting it up on PowerPoint. I love that. I've missed that the past few weeks since the other churches were bigger and put verses up there. I liked how Pastor Cal at home always made us turn to the verses in our Bibles so we can see it for ourselves as well and make notes, and sometimes he'd put the verses up too. It shows the value of individuals knowing the Bible instead of just the pastor.

After church we were invited to a lunch for the young adults group and met even more people!! My head's still swimming with faces and names!

Tiana and I were looking for a church that had a young adults group. We want to connect with others our age. Many of the churches in Hamilton that had a good amount of young adults and programs for young adults were churches that were not Biblically sound. No wonder the Malaniks were sent to plant a church in Hamilton. The churches that seemed Biblically sound didn't have a program or Bible Study for young adults. So, we feel kinda left out.

This church seems good so far, but we don't know all the info about the church yet. We are having lunch with Campbell and his wife next Sunday and so we will find out more, but we'll keep going there to learn a bit more about the church.

Please keep us in prayer!!!! We like this church a lot, but we don't want to get too involved until we know that they are Biblically sound. We've learned a lot about some key things, but we still need to know more. Pray for us!!