1st Visit to Parkway Baptist

I don't know if any of you guys knows this but we are looking to attend a different church as of September 1st, so here is the account of what I thought of it and such. Today Dad,Mom,Mark,Jamie and I visited Parkway Baptist Church, it is held in a school called Grange Hall while they are making their own church building. Jamie and I went to Big Group which is kind of what we did at Bethany Place. I saw Steven M.,Chad's younger brother,Kacie who were all originally form Swift Creek where we used to got to before Bethany Place. I didn't feel shy or anything like normal because I actually knew some people who are already members there. After the leader dude announced stuff we watched a Fuel video. Then soon after we spilt into groups. Jamie was in the seventh grade class where I was in the eighth with Kacie,two other girls and two boys. The lesson was about Rahab and the spies and how bad people can turn good. The guy who taught the class is the manager of Chic-Fl-A which I thought was cool. After about thirty minutes class dismissed and everyone went to Worship. I met up with Jamie and found Mark,then we went to the gym where the Worship service was held where we found our parents. It started out with the choir singing,they were pretty good. Then the congregation sang, no one turned around to see who was singing when my Dad started singing (He sings loud and low and it sometimes startles people,but not me I am used to it!!!). The music was contemporary but it did have a hymn at the end. I like that kind of a balance where it just isn't one type of music. The sermon was ok, it wasn't long and monotonous or too hyper. The one good thing is that the service let out at twelve o'clock instead of the normal one o'clock. We went to Michael's so Mark could get some art stuff he needed for class,went to Gamestop so Jamie could look,Barnes & Noble for Mark because he wanted to see if they had a book he wanted, at the very end we all went to CiCi's Pizza for Lunch where I saw the Youth dude but didn't go over and say "Hi" or anything (I was shy).


Dad,Mom and I went to Parkway's picnic at the C's (Jamie and Mark didn't go because Jamie wanted to go to the Block Party at Bethany Place instead) I think it was all the way out in Amelia county. Anyway, we pulled into the parking lot where we then parked and got out our chairs to sit in. A guy who was driving people down the road to the house picked us up and took us down the driveway a ways. Then Mom put her cookies on the table and went over to the pool to try to watch the people being Baptized. Then we sang some songs,prayed over the food and ate. There was the usually Southern Baptist Hardee's chicken and biscuits and casseroles. I was rather stuffed still from CiCi's so I didn't eat a lot. I walked over to where Kacie and her friends were, I figured if I was going to see how I liked Youth there I would have to hang out with them!!! They were all nice and stuff. Soon came the egg tossing contest upon which I didn't compete in because I didn't want to get egg all over me. Next came the pie eating contest. Two ladies,one man and a boy competed in it. One of the two ladies won. I sat on the pavement and talked with Kasie and her friends. Then Dad,Mom and I soon had to go home.