Welcome to the 21st Century Church (At Least--S. Cal Style)

From my local paper:

Five congregations meet Every Sunday for worship at the (name of church) Baptist church at (address of church). The Filipino congregation meets at 10 a.m., followed by the English at 10:45 a.m. and Spanish at 11:15 a.m., Armenian at 1 p.m. and Romanian at 5 p.m.

(If you are confused as to the half-hour church services, I am fairly sure they meet in various parts of the church to have a regular hour+ service).

Welcome to the 21st century church (at least here in Southern California). This, in fact, is very common here.


Memo to Bible Belters: Are you prepared for this? Because, it is cetainly coming your way as more immigrants settle in rural areas. In many churches here, once or twice a year, all the congregations meet together in one big service. I've been in two churches that do this and I'm telling you--the Holy Spirit really shows up when all of these congregations get together. Perhaps a message for the 21st century church?