How far do you drive to church?

freeatlast · #1 03-24-2008, 07:54 AM

We have many families in our church that drive quite a distance to our church. 60 miles for one elderly couple. Seven families that are 30 miles away.

Several of these families have churches of the same "brand" in their town.

I drive 30 miles myself. We have in our small community a little upc work of 10 people or so, and a larger UPC 5 miles away, but I've been driving 30 miles for 16 years now.

How about you ? How far do you drive to church?

Another question...how difficult is it to get guests from where you live to drive to where you go to church?

Cindy · #2 03-24-2008, 07:58 AM

I live about 10 minutes away from my church. 7 or 8 minutes if I don't catch the traffic light.........lol

Singrkel · #3 03-24-2008, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by freeatlast

How about you ? How far do you drive to church?

Another question...how difficult is it to get guests from where you live to drive to where you go to church?

We drive 45 minutes to church. It makes it really hard, but there aren't any churches that suit us as well in our area.

Getting guests is no problem. In fact often times we have too many. My husband meets kids through his ministry and we end up having all of them and their family in our car. At one point we had to take a van from the church because we didn't have enough room in our car. We had 8 teenage boys at one point.

Digging4Truth · #4 03-24-2008, 08:01 AM

3/10 of a mile.

seguidordejesus · #5 03-24-2008, 08:03 AM

30 miles, but I work in the same town I go to church in, so it's not too hard to get visitors to come. There is a good church in the town I live in, so if we invite people from town, it's sometimes more convenient for them to go to the local one.

Sister Alvear · #6 03-24-2008, 08:16 AM

I usually go to a different village church every night!

Ferd · #7 03-24-2008, 08:19 AM

i am about 10 miles away I think. not more than that for sure.

I grew up about 26 miles from the church we attended.

While on AIM in Guyana, I rode a bicycle with a broke seat 7 miles one direction to preach at the church I was visiting. did that twice in one day for 2 services! 28 miles on a broken bicycle. To God be the Glory.

Mrs. LPW · #8 03-24-2008, 08:22 AM

I live about a 3 minutes drive to my church.

freeatlast · #9 03-24-2008, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Singrkel

We drive 45 minutes to church. It makes it really hard, but there aren't any churches that suit us as well in our area.

Getting guests is no problem. In fact often times we have too many. My husband meets kids through his ministry and we end up having all of them and their family in our car. At one point we had to take a van from the church because we didn't have enough room in our car. We had 8 teenage boys at one point.

That's great Singrkel !!

marthaolivia · #10 03-24-2008, 08:40 AM

I live 25 miles from my church. It is long story but I know that God sent me to my church even though there are 2 churches within 5 miles of me. My pastor is the one who baptized me and I don't even think of attending the closer church. BTW our Easter service was awesome and extra chairs had to be added. I'm sure we had over 500 in service yesterday and we had a baptismal service last night. God is Good!