OLE Church Planters: Joint meeting in Salem

Salem Iglesia Worship Team

     On February 12, most of our OLE Church Planters congregations gathered at Court St. Christian Church for a joint meeting. Court St. C.C. is where Iglesia de Cristo, "Ciudad de Paz" meets for their Spanish services every Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Sunday School starts at 12:30 p.m. and Thursday Bible study and prayer time is at 6:30 p.m.
     At the joint meeting, or culto unido, we had somewhere between 250 and 300 in attendance. Every church participated in the service in some way, and the Salem congregation had spent Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning preparing a delicious soup called Pozole to share with the visiting congregations after the worship service.
     Our speaker this time was the 2012 president of the National Hispanic Christian Convention, which will take place at Clovis, CA, this coming July. Our brother, Frank Flores, is the minister of the Christian church in Clovis, and brought not only an excellent message for our group, but also brought information about the convention in July. He also brought along his wife and three sons on the trip north, and we enjoyed getting to know them as well and sharing some Oregon hospitality with them.
During the worship service, each church also brought special music and the Salem worship team did an excellent job of leading all of us in congregational singing.