This Sunday before Christmas, I felt I needed another coming home church worship experience. After I left Valley during my college years, I ended up at Andrew Riverside because of Harry and Judy Maghikian, I was even employed by AR for a summer to work on building their youth ministry. I had not seen Harry and Judy in a long time and so this was a driving factor for me to visit AR this Sunday.
Since the AR church building was knocked down five years ago following the wall colapse , they have been worshiping at the YMCA on the U Campus. They have a small dedicated congregation and are looking forward to being back in their own building in the near future as the latest development (Senior housing with worship/fellowship and office space for the church) on the land where the AR Church was is progressing through the hurdles towards being built.
While worship does not need to take place in a church building, it is a little different to worship in rented space like the Y. They do a nice job decorating the space and setting it up to function well as worship space. It has Judy's creative touch to it.
The worship service does not follow the traditional PCUSA templet for worship, it seemed like there was more special music than needed and while scripture from the book of John was referenced in the sermon, there was not actual reading of scripture prior to the sermon. In traditional Harry and Judy fashion the sermon used visuals from the LCD projector and was given by more than one person. While I grew up with Harry and Judy's worship services, it seems very foreign to me some of the changes they have been during their time at AR and is not a worship experience that feeds me spiritaly as I need to be.
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