Church visits : It's Ash Wednesday: Lent Has Started

Church visits

Visiting: As a student of religion, I've seen how various factors in a church visit affect spiritual growth and religious attitudes as one searches for a church home. I visit churches to observe, firsthand, how they present themselves to visitors. My visits, with a few exceptions, focus on Christian churches. This blog contains accounts of those visits, and related posts. I look for the following in my visits:
• Friendliness and warmth
• Genuine welcome, true Christian hospitality
• Effective, well-delivered bible-based main teaching
• Music deepening the worship, not just entertainment

Map to churches I have visited.
My email: churchvisits@gmail.com

Contributors

Chris Thompson

Chris Thompson, an amateur biblical scholar and student of religions, is a member of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society for Biblical Literature (SBL). He enjoys AAR/SBL where he studies, first hand, with worldwide religious scholars. A management consultant, skilled in all aspects of 360-degree feedback programs and human resource management systems, he practices these skills as Workforce Consulting. He lives in Anchorage.

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Google map with visited churches

As I visit churches, I'll post their locations on this map.

It's Ash Wednesday: Lent Has Started

Posted by Chris Thompson

Posted: February 17, 2010 - 7:05 am

Many Christian churches, the world over, mark the beginning of the Lenten season with Ash Wednesday services. Most often celebrated by Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, this time of reflection and fasting begins the 40 days leading up to Holy Week and Easter. An excellent resume of the history and significance of Lent is here . If you've never experienced an Ash Wednesday service, I urge you to do so. Many Anchorage churches offer services. Using the following words to do a Google search, I located many Anchorage churches conducting Ash Wednesday services today. "ash wednesday services 2010 anchorage alaska" Substitute your city and state if you are not from Anchorage, Alaska.