Class Schedule for Church Visitations

CHURCH VISITATIONS

To: Religious Education Class and Parents
From: Themis Fotieo

Our religious education class will begin Church visitations on Sunday, October 24, 2010. The first three visitations will be as follows:

1. Sunday, October 24, 2010 Catholic
We will be visiting the Cathedral of Saint Andrew on Sheldon Street for their
10:00 a.m. service (which by the way is televised on Fox 17). In Orthodoxy and
in Catholicism the word “cathedral” often references a Church where the
Bishop of that Diocese presides. The Catholic Bishop of the Grand Rapids
Diocese is Bishop Walter Hurley. www.cathedralofsaintandrew.org
We will leave from Holy Trinity parking lot at 9:40 a.m. promptly. We will try
to return to Holy Trinity by 11:30 a.m.

2. Sunday, October 31, 2010 Lutheran
We will be visiting Immanuel Lutheran Church at 2 Michigan Street N.E. (It is on
the Michigan hill next to the Van Andel Institute. www.immanuellcmsgr.org In the United States there are several branches of Lutherans. This church belongs to the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), which is probably the more conservative. Two of the other groups are: Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America (ELCA) and Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. We will be visiting on Oct. 31, which happens to be Reformation Day in the Protestant world. The service starts at 8:30 a.m. and we will leave Holy Trinity parking lot at 8:15 a.m. promptly. We will be back at Holy Trinity in plenty of time to also attend a good portion of our own service.

3. Sunday, November 7, 2010 Episcopalian
We will be visiting Grace Episcopal Church at 1815 Hall Street (Corner of
Plymouth and Hall in East Grand Rapids. http://gracechurchgr.org Many of
the early Presidents of the United States were Episcopalians. The Church of
England is called the Anglican Church. After the American Revolutionary War its churches in the United States started calling themselves Episcopalian so that
they were no longer under English rule. President Ford was a member of the
parish at Grace. The service starts at 10:00 and we will leave Holy Trinity
parking lot at 9:45 a.m. promptly. We will be back at Holy Trinity by 11:30 a.m.

Several parents have indicated that they would be available to drive/chaperone. I would appreciate them letting me know which of the above they would like to do. My e-mail address is tfotieo@gmail.com

On, Sunday November 14, we will attend church at Holy Trinity and in class we will discuss our observations of the worship services attended and also talk a little about what to expect in the next set of visitations. Hereafter, we will try to visit the following denominations:

• Reformed
• Baptist
• Pentecostal
• A large non-denominational church
• Christian Science
• Etc

Before we start visiting other churches you should take another look at the list I gave you at the beginning of our school year where I listed several things to be looking for in comparing churches.

Themis Fotieo
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