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[quote=Anonymous]I was raised in a Baptist Church in Brazil - they're nothing like the Baptist churches I've visited here. I was much more like Catholic mass here. Just silence during the whole sermon and a very ceremonial, serious worship singing maybe 2 songs with just a piano playing.

When I got here I was amazed to see those churches. I felt so welcome and comfortable as soon as I walked in the doors. Everybody had a smile on their faces, they all invited me to their small groups to discuss the bible in our daily lives and share our interests, there was a group for bikers, for runners, musicians, young professionals, you could pick pretty much anything that interested you.

They had 2 mission trips a year but I never went on any of them. They had some community outreach activities where we would pick a house to renovate, a backyard to clean up, a house to paint, etc. Every other week we would spend a Saturday helping someone in the community. I got to paint people's houses, help to fix roofs, clean up backyards, plant new gardens, fix cars... it was awesome! I learned so much!

There was a babysitting swap group for the new parents, groups for new couples who were engaged to prepare them for marriage, etc... I'm a stronger believer that if one is living for the spread of the gospel the church should feed his/her family, now if the person is just a host for social events... nah, they should be volunteers.

I've been in the other end of mission trips and I must tell you... it's so funny when they come with bags and bags of used dirty shoes for kids "in the third world" and the poor kiddos have no socks to wear the shoes... or they come with canned food and the communities have no can openers. 
I can't tell you how many shipments of winter clothing we got when the coolest temperature we have during the winter is around 70F. I know people have good intentions but they should do a bit more research before investing so much.
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