Playing Hooky From Church is Another Name for Community Service

Fifth Sundays Turn Into Service Days at at West Valley Presbyterian Church and other churches.

There’s no need to go to church every Sunday; permission to skip granted courtesy Kim Engelmann, senior pastor at West Valley Presbyterian Church. Yes, there’s a catch but it’s a feel-good catch that has lured in new members who have told Engelmann they joined the church just because of WVPC’s Service Worship Sundays. For every month with five Sundays WVPC turns that fifth Sunday into a Service Worship day and turns loose the congregation into the community to do good deeds. “From a theological perspective we are worshiping by serving,” Engelmann says. But you don’t have to be a member of the church to join them, Engelmann says. Anyone can help out then stick around for the potluck dinner back at the church at the end of the day. …

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