Visited City Gates this morning. A fairly diverse church. many different countries and races represented, not many of them white. We showed up 15 minutes late and we still got to sing for an hour! we felt very welcome - kids were allowed to stay in the main service and they had a little play area in the back with toys. it was still hard for us to concentrate, and fairly stressful, but it didn't feel like anyone else minded the girls being there, and they certainly weren't the only ones being loud.
It was a fairly mixed group generationally as well. they have a strong outreach to troubled youth that's made some headlines this week - it's losing money from the government in the form of grants because it's too "Christian".
We'll probably go back next week. I'm interested to hear a Charismatic perspective on tongues...the pastor mentioned he'd be saying something about it next week during the sermon.
[update] Thanks, Steph, for the full link to their site.
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Hey Dan, the full link to their page is http://www.citygates.org.uk/Church.html
Pretty nice site too!
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