Young Married's Class of 2

Our third church visit was to Heritage Bible Church Panama City, and as far as trends go our praise music experience has continued. When we rolled up McKay saw that you can count the cars in the parking lot on your fingers and was a little despaired at the small size of the church. If you want to know how small: the preacher, from the pulpit, picked us out of the crowd as new comers, and I quote, "there's a couple new faces there in the second to last row, ya'll make them feel welcome." This was immediately followed by a 10 minute stand and greeting time, like a big family reunion. The church is also small enough that the congregation can interrupt the service and enter comments and announcements. It reminded me a lot of Faith Alliance where I went as a kid. The morning actually started with Sunday School. One of our requirements for a church is a small group bible study on Sunday morning. We were a little surprised that there is one adult Sunday School class which was in the sanctuary. There is a lot of great discussion and solid teaching, including a very sporty exchange with a retired Navy Master Chief, which was nice. The main service started with a hymn, from a hymnal (no projector screen power point here) with a piano, no choir, and the guy waving his hand to keep us all in sync. The service did seem to follow little off subject trails here and there and concluded with a very short sermon. It was probably the shortest sermon and longest service I've been to. We visited this church because their preacher is a Dallas Theo Grad and we were hoping for good theology, which they have. However, the church is entirely made up of families with school age kids and older adults, we were the only 2 people in our demographic. The people there are very nice and I think if I had kids I would probably choose to return, however we are looking for a place where we have peers. There were no mullets but the local boot store (That Boot Shop) owner invited us to meet his new mini-pony, Gideon.