Church Hunting

How do you find a church? For the first time in my life, I find myself churchless. I grew up in one church, then left with my family to start a church plant, where I was married and have been a member for over 5 years.

Due to a number of unfortunate circumstances, we decided it was time to move on as a family. It was an extremely difficult situation, but we felt God calling us to step out in faith.

So now, we have to figure out what we want in a church. Big or small? Close or far? Which denomination? What kind of preaching and music? What ministries? How is their nursery? It has quickly become overwhelming.

I do know a few things. We want to find a place where we feel comfortable leaving our kids in the nursery. We would like a place that has a strong commitment to their community so we can be involved in outreach. I would personally like a place where they preach through the scripture verse by verse, but that is unlikely. I also know that at this point, while I would like to find a well organized worship team to be a part of some day, I don’t care what the music sounds like. I want passionate and real worshippers to join in song every Sunday.

Please pray for wisdom and guidance. While I’m excited to see where God wants to send us to serve, I’d be lying if I said it will be easy. But maybe that’s what God wants, to allow us struggle so we can put all of our trust in Him during this time in our lives.