Is your's a "Church of Nations?"

[James]

In another post, I mentioned our congregation is made up of people from 15 different nations. If your congregation is of more than 1 nationality, where are they from?

Ours come from: Mexico, India, Pakistan, China, The Phillipines, Trinidad, Russia, and several African nations.

[Phil Hoover]

United States, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Philippines, South Korea, China, Haiti, Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, Panama, Germany, Zimbabwe, England, Ireland, Canada, Jamaica, and Cambodia.

Hope I didn't leave anyone out.....

Phil Hoover
Chicago

[Pastor Gary]

Not sure if you want ethnicity or nationality. Most are U.S. Citizens, but ethnicities...

Hawaiian
Chinese
Puerto Rican
Filipino
Samoan
African-American (black)
Caucasian (white)
Korean
Okinawan
Japanese
Equadorian
Mexican
...I am forgetting a few...
--and just about every possible mixture of the above you can imagine.

[The Martins]

When our church left the Episcopal Church USA, we joined the Anglican Mission in America, which is a mission of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda. So, our Bishop is in Rwanda. He said the ECUSA had sent missionaries to Africa for a century plus, now he felt (due to the problems here with the ECUSA) that WE needed missionaries. So true. The U.S. is the world's LARGEST mission field.

Anyway, our congregation has representatives from several countries. I couldn't begin to name them.

[Shellie]

We used to have the pleasure of being the only Indonesian Church of God of Prophecy in America at our local church. INS took care of that. They are all gone back to Indonesia now.

What we have left:

White

Black

Canadian

Spanish

Palestinian

British

Ukranian

.............and one guy from Brooklyn, but we don't treat him any differently than anyone else.

[Jan]

Ours is not only a The Potter's House of different nations, we also are heavy into missions, having just built an orphanage in Haiti with a Christian school and now a "seminary" underway at Destiny Village, we just bought property in southern India and we're working with Bro. Wesley Solomon (the CoG overseer of India) to build an orphanage there. We also are heavily involved in Taiwann with a couple from our church who spend a lot of time there ministering to the orphans -- there are many there turning to Christianity because of the work we're doing in Taiwann. We just helped build a Hispanic church -- they started worshipping in our church in a separate room where the worship service was in Spanish -- they grew to over 100 and we helped them buy their property and get established as an independent church. We now have a Slovak church meeting in our church and our intent is to do the same -- they meet nearly every day of the week to wee hours of the morning for prayer and worship. They would put most American Christians to shame!

In our congregation, we have too many nationalities to count. Our missions budget every year grows and grows because our people are so mission-minded. Every month we're sending people out to different areas of the world to minister.

It's awesome to have some part in a global ministry like this . . . even if I don't personally go, putting my support in the ministries is enabling others to go. Although, I'm leaving for Kenya two weeks from tomorrow -- my first real mission trip. Can you tell I'm excited!

Blessings,
Jan

[Mike Vande]

I am not sure how many nations are represented at Full Faith; at least two that I know of. I do know Full Faith is represented in at least 12 nations by missionaries, more if you count the continental USA.

http://www.fullfaith.org/missions/

Not bad for a non-denominational church.

[Jennifer Smith]

Our church in Palm City had people from Jamaica, Dominican Republic,
Italy, and Guatemala.

Here in Arcadia we're pretty much all rednecks! But God can change that. It's fun and interesting to have a mix, also a testimony to others about how the love of Christ overcomes racial barriers.

[Little Sister]

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I have GOOD news! In addition to all the white, southern folks that make up our church, we have just added a whole African American congregation!

I have been informed that our church has "merged" (maybe temporarily) with another church who's lost their building for some reason... and they're predominately (if not all) black.

My mom emailed me today and was saying how awesome the service was Sunday (cause I didn't make it ). She said they would sing one of "our songs" and then sing one of "their songs" and the preachers will take turns preaching alternate Sundays. She said she really enjoyed the worshiping!!

Gotta love the improvement! We're getting "diversified"!! AND now the parking lot is FULL!!