Church Membership

As you all know, I was confirmed last year a couple weeks before I moved. Well its been a little over a year with my family in the new church. Well evidently my father (who is still a member of an Episcopal church, which he last went to a service as a young child) asked Rev. L what it would take to move the WHOLE families membership up. I don't hate the church up here, but leaving my old church, MY church, would be like leaving my hometown, if that makes sense. Its been pretty easy to find a new library, and to make new friends, to make MA a hometown, to make my house a home, but to leave MY church in CT, its the only thing left that I have of my old hometown, which its hard to explain how it feels, especially for me. But as I'm reading the by-laws, I can be a partial member, but I wouldn't have any voting power. I want to be part of this church up here, since I'm already so active in it, but I don't want to leave MY church, I don't want to lose that last piece of MY town.

I don't really know what to do, and I think that to be faced with this decision, is tough. Have you had the same problem? If, so what made you change, or not change? Any hints would be great.

Lots of Love,
The Slightly Confused Congregationalist aka Cae ♥

Conneticut to Massachusetts Comparison 6

Church

I still find myself calling UCD "my" church, instead of BCC. I still participate in the old church, I get emials, I'm hopefully going to see their Xmas Pagent, and I'm hopefully going to their KY Trip next summer. With the new church, I haven't found my place in it yet. I'm helping out with the Sunday School, and just last Sunday my mom and I brought Operation Christmas Child into the church, and we delievered all the boxes Monday, but it stil doesn't feel like home. I've been asked multiple time what I like about the new town, and I respond the Library, but then I always get ask, "Have you found a church yet?" I wan't to answer "no", but we're part of the church, weather I like it or not. If it wasn't for UCD I wouldn't have 90% of religion in my life as I do today.

Found a Church?

Well I think the church hunt is done, which is funny at the same time. Last Sunday mom and I went to the Church on the Hill, and the conversation went.

Mom: “C, I think we’ll bring M, B, and R here on Sunday, don’t you think?”
Me: “Ok, so this is our church?”
Mom: “No. Look at my calendar and check what Sunday is good for Coffee Hour.”
Me: “MOM! You just said this wasn’t our church, but yet you’re signing up for Coffee hour! That means this is our church.”
Mom: “Well ya I guess you’re right.”
Me: “But we still need to go to the church with the huge Organ. I want to take a picture of it, to send to J.”
Mom: “Ok”

See, it’s funny, mom doesn’t look at the Church on the Hill as our church, but yet she’s able to sign us up for Coffee Hour, sign her and I up for a Blood Drive, offer to join the choir there, I don’t really like this church, but I can live with it for the next 4 years.

By <3 C