Saipan Community Church

I have wanted to write about our church for a long time, but kept forgetting to put it in the blog so here you go.
The church Grant and I attend while being in Saipan is Saipan Community Church. It is on the same campus as the school and where we live. It is a part of the General Baptist Conference. The church motto is "Where the doors are always open." You can take this two ways, we do not have doors and it is an open air church so you can always come in, but second the the community is one where we like to get to know one another. At the beginning of the service we do the meet and greet and then we sing the family song. We hold hands and make a giant circle around the chapel and sing the song. It does sound a lot like camp and some people are not big fans of it, but for me personally I love it because community is number one when I am looking for a church.
At the church I feel as though I have met most everyone that goes there and have spent some time outside of church getting to know them too. Grant has been asked a few times to be the worship leader where he gets to lead the service. The main way that we get connected though is through our bible study which meets on Monday Night. We meet at a couple's house in our church and start with a potluck dinner and then get into the video bible study. I love the potluck since it is new food every week and getting to talk around the table builds community. From there we watch a video on the series we are on and then have a discussion. Grant and I have lead discussions before and it is pretty easy to do since the material is already given to you. We love going on monday nights at the beginning of the week and getting to fellowship with other christians.
We definitely knew from the hard time we had finding a church in Sioux Falls is that you need to get involved in a bible study to meet people.
Saipan Community Church is a place where we are fed spiritually and feel at home.
The pictures I have posted are Grant and the boys, the front of the church, the whole view of the church, the pastor greeting people after church, and the girls and I. Hope you enjoy it!