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...Louis, church planting is that most blessed of arrangements: a win-win proposition. New churches like the French-Speaking Baptist Church of St. Louis, now ensconced inside the ornate walls of the century-old Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, get to worship in some of the most beautiful religious structures in the city instead of the storefronts in which poor congregations often start out. At the same time, church planting has advantages for struggling host congregations like Our Redeemer, whose membership has fallen from 1,200 to 88 as its German-American neighborhood has changed to a black, Haitian...
...between the two services cuts down on chance encounters in the chapel, which nobody really seems to want. Language can also be a barrier. "My congregation can't understand him even when he speaks English," jokes the Rev. William Doubek of his Vietnamese counterpart. Moreover, different denominations cannot worship together. "If we were to hold a joint service, the Lutheran Synod would be pretty hard on us," Bodimer notes. And, says Our Redeemer treasurer Charles Wuensch, "there is a feeling among some in the congregation that we don't have anything in common with these people, that we wouldn...
...biggest obstacle is cultural differences built into worship styles. Speaking of black Baptists who share his church, Lutheran Doubek says, "When they sing Amazing Grace, the song is the same but it sounds different." Our Redeemer's Haitians use Haitian music, and the Kingshighway Latino congregation integrates salsa, soul and tango sounds. Sermon styles differ: African Americans expect call and response from the pews and services that last twice as long as a typical white service. Roosevelt Clossum, minister of the African-American congregation at Mount Olive, says that when he went to give a guest sermon before the whites...
...country is a mosaic of backwardness and new thinking, of worship of Mammon and nostalgia for Mao. Hong Kong poses no graver threat to the powers in Beijing than homegrown forces already at work; the embrace of individual enterprise has forever undermined the basic tenets of communism. The pace and uncertainty of this unique transition frighten as many Chinese as they embolden. Whatever the Chinese are on the way to becoming, they offer this counsel: Naixin. Patience. Xuyao shijian. It takes time...
...last someone who has the courage to observe not only that Emperor Summer has no clothes but that he is drenched with sweat to boot! Devoted as I am to cooler weather, I'm convinced that we've been conditioned since childhood to worship the most uncomfortable months of the year. Thank you, Roy. MILDRED OSINSKI TEITELMAN Camden...