Presbyterian Church

Saturday, September 13, 2008

In 10 minutes we are leaving to go to Church. I am not too terribly excited about this because the service will be all in Korean and I just don't want to be stared at. I can put up with it in public places, but at Church I just don't want to be the Wageu and have everyone look. Right now, I just don't want to go, but I am forcing myself to go. It's a Presbyterian church and one of Kyle's students invited us.... so I guess I will let you know how it goes.

I will also add more pictures later today.


UPDATE:

We are back from Church. Besides the initial awkwardness of feeling like we were imposing and not welcome since it is Chuseok and a few random stares it was alright. Wish we could have understood the sermon, but all in all it was pretty good. When we first went in the church an English woman was flagged over and she said "why are you here?" and we were nervous about gracing them with our presence. But, she didn't mean it in the bad "what were you thinking" way, but they just don't know exactly how to say things politely in English when it is their second language. They use the words they know and it can come off as harsh. We searched the Chuch for Young-In (Kyle's student) and later found her outside with the help of a member of the church.

We sat and listened to the sermon. Sang a few hymns. We have been welcomed back next week to meet the minister who speaks English and the woman who initially helped us is extremely friendly. We are going to try and find an English Church, but will go there probably in the meantime.