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11-18-2007, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by CC1
As I recall you didn't even tell me you had visited my church until AFTER the fact!!!!
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Must be Alzheimers, brother.
We were going to meet before service, but I got lost on Old Hickory and ended up not getting there until wel into the service.
Just yanking your chain previously! 
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11-18-2007, 10:25 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Jackson, TN
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We only have morning services (9 & 11) and no Sunday evening service. On some Sunday evenings, we have Relevant Classes that last for four weeks at a time, or sometimes a special "Encounter" Service with a prophet or some other special speaker. Tonight, they just finished their fourth week of elective classes, which have been really popular.
Our Wed. evening services have become more like our Sunday night services used to be; very intense spiritually. Longer praise & worship, waiting on God, gifts in action, etc.
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11-18-2007, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Sherri
We only have morning services (9 & 11) and no Sunday evening service. On some Sunday evenings, we have Relevant Classes that last for four weeks at a time, or sometimes a special "Encounter" Service with a prophet or some other special speaker. Tonight, they just finished their fourth week of elective classes, which have been really popular.
Our Wed. evening services have become more like our Sunday night services used to be; very intense spiritually. Longer praise & worship, waiting on God, gifts in action, etc.
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This sounds like what we have in mind as a goal.
I would be interested in your Sunday format and Wednesday format, if you would care to share.
(Notice I stayed away from the word "program". We all know that OP's do not follow a program, just three choruses, special singing, choir, offering, and preaching. It cannot be a program cause it ain't written down!)
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11-18-2007, 11:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Originally Posted by ChTatum
Must be Alzheimers, brother.
We were going to meet before service, but I got lost on Old Hickory and ended up not getting there until wel into the service.
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LOL!!! I remembered it was YOUR fault, just not why. Hopefully you can come back again sometime and we can grab a cup of coffee before or after service.
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11-18-2007, 11:18 PM
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Location: following the lewis and clark trail
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Our church has one Sunday service; 10:30 Am , this is a morning worship and at the same time downstairs SS/Childrens' church type programs.
This has been the only Sun service since this church began in Apr '99. (begun as a UPC Home Missions work; there are other churches in area but under churched for a metro area )
They also do a Sat service @ 7:30pm. This is the worship service for the saints.
Sun morn is evangelistic.
Wed night there are cell groups meeting in homes.
At various times Sun night has had discipleship classes, choir practice or whatever was needed.
It works well.
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11-18-2007, 11:22 PM
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We have two services, but I wish we only had one afternoon service and I always look forward to that on months with fith Sundays.
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11-18-2007, 11:26 PM
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Formerly known as CareyM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Oregon
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Originally Posted by ChTatum
We have decided to try going to just one service on Sundays for awhile, expanding our morning service and also our Wednesday night service.
How many of you attend a church where there is only one Sunday service, and what is your feeling towards it?
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We do and I really, really like it! It's so nice to have the evening to ourselves, not keeping the kids up late...no one is usually wiped out on Monday morning either!
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11-19-2007, 12:58 AM
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The church I pastored for the last three years only had one service on Sunday. I think the key is to make the service a truly celebratory time and take the time for ministry in the altar at the end of the service. I agree that once the PM service is cut it is impossible to resurrect it. I tried twice to restart the PM service to appease some who pined for an evening service, but it simply wasn't supported by enough people.
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11-19-2007, 01:06 AM
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Discipleship Team shares the following in an article they have produced on Sunday Night Services;
"Church history tells us that the beginning of Sunday night church evolved from those who worked hard on their farms early on Sunday to be able to travel by horse and buggy or by foot to get to church by about 10 or 11 for church. They had traveled so far to church and they hadn’t seen their friends all week they decided to have dinner on the grounds and stay around for evening fellowship, prayer, bible study and worship. They were trying to maximize their time too. Ronny Russell, author of Can A Church Live Again? explains, “I read somewhere years ago that Sunday evening services began in England (the good folks who gave us Sunday School) when gas lights became widely used in businesses and factories. Churches couldn't stand the thought of people going out on Sunday nights (it was still the Sabbath) and so they decided to install gas lights and open their churches for Sunday night services."
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11-19-2007, 06:36 AM
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We only have one service on Sundays. We have choir practice @ 12:30 pm, Sunday School from 1:45 - 2:30 and then service generally starts around 2:40-ish. We are done by 4:30 and the evening is free. It's SOOOOO nice. . .I don't know that I could ever go back to a morning & evening service 
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