Go to a church

The brochure and introduction about Christmas, Protestantism and Jesus.

The program


The church

There were lots of people in the church

Someone was reading a poem.

I was outside the church

On the afternoon of December 24, Chester and I went to the church on Mochou Road. Chester took me to the church on his motor. We arrived there at about 6.00 p.m. For the Christmas was coming, people were holding some activities to celebrate this festival in the church. When I entered the church, it was full of people. It even took us 5 minutes to find seats. The reason why we chose Protestantism as my religious service was that I may go to a western university in USA or Canada in 2 years. Some of my future classmates, friends or teachers may believe in Protestantism. I might be very close to this religion. Also, Christmas has become not only a religious festival, but also an international festival. I should know some knowledge and details about this festival and the religious cultures. In addition, I had not seen these religious activities of the Protestantism before. I was so curious that I wanted to enter the church and take a look at what was happening in it.

When I entered the big hall of this church, the interior decoration attracted my eyes. I found the church was magnificent. I read the brochure and introduction about Christmas which they had given to me before. At 6.30 p.m., the ceremony started as one of the nuns leaded people to sing a song. Honestly, this song was long and strange, I totally did not know what the meaning of this song was. Luckily, I could be sure that song was in English because I heard some English words, but it was still very weird. Then, one of the nuns read some sentences, and other people followed her. I guessed that they were praying. After that, they started to read something that I did not understand again. I knew I should show respect to this religious service, but I could not help to yawn and I would nearly fall asleep. So did Chester. Therefore, we decided to leave the church before we slept on the couch.

From this religious service, I only knew some information about Christmas, Jesus and Protestantism from reading the brochure and introduction which they had given me when I entered the church. Although I did not understand the detail meaning of the service held in the church, I still could see that the belief that Christian have to the God. They considered that kind peoplewould be treated nice and bad people would be punished.

I felt it was boring and I did not like it. I did not understand what they said and what the song meant. I thought I would get some interests in it if they could read the poems which I was able to understand at least. In my imagination, it should be a great party or event to celebrate Christmas, but it was definitely not as interesting as I imagined. Maybe it also showed that I was lack of the knowledge about Protestantism.