Fellowship Church and Baby Dedication

We already were members of a little Baptist church out in East Texas - Northshore Baptist in Avinger. However, we're obviously not out there all the time, so we wanted to find somewhere we could attend while we are at home. In September, we joined Fellowship Church in Grapevine as non-resident members. Ironic since we are actually residents here. However, the only way that you can be a member of two Southern Baptist churches at the same time is to be a non-resident member of one of the churches.

I am embarassed to admit that I was not a big proponent of Fellowship. I had visited there in the early 90's and was not impressed. Granted, I went to the College & Career Sunday School class and didn't attend the worship service. But, the people in the class were not friendly at all and I was really turned off. Not to mention the fact that it is a mega-church and seemed VERY overwhelming. Plus, I knew that it was VERY contemporary.

So, my friend, Jill, invited us to attend her baptism this past May at Fellowship on a Saturday evening. We went to the baptism and were overwhelmed...but in a good way. The people were so friendly and there were kids EVERYWHERE. Everything was so well organized. We decided to visit there the next morning. We had visited several other churches in the area - Baptist, Methodist, non-denominational - but there was always something that we didn't agree with or care for. At Fellowship, we really enjoyed the sermon and were also very impressed with the nursery. We visited several more times and felt the same way.

Is the music our favorite? No. Is it what I would choose? No. Do I still like the old hymns best? Yes. But we had to decide on what was most important to us and that was raising our kids in a church where we agreed with the message. We could really like the music like at the Methodist church we visited but if we don't agree with the message, then that doesn't make sense.

So, short story long, that's why we joined at Fellowship. We haven't really gotten involved yet since we joined in September and the twins were born in October. Hopefully before too long, we can start.

Fellowship only does their Baby Dedication once a year, so we decided to go ahead and participate in the Baby Dedication service on Saturday, November 15th. The twins weren't even a month old yet but we wanted all of our family to be able to attend and didn't want to wait until the next year. Unfortunately, since there were so many kids in the service, I couldn't tell you at all what the minister said. My parents said that it was a very nice service though. LOL... There was a least one other set of twins there - 2 girls that were 9 weeks old at the time. We still plan to have the twins dedicated at Northshore as well.

That was also the weekend of the infamous Seven Days of Sex Challenge sermon. You can even watch it online by selecting Part 1 using the link. It was actually a very good sermon and didn't deserve the bad press it received.

If any of you are interested in visiting Fellowship with us, just let us know. We would love to have you join us!