Going to Church

Church services are a little different from services here in our country. They are longer, with more singing and some dancing -- in fact, there are often several choirs at a church service, some made up of girls and some of adults. Choirs usually dance as well as sing. And when the church takes the offering, instead of passing a basket through the rows, as  most of our churches do, in Congo the people stand up and start dancing, and they dance their gifts up to the front where big baskets are waiting. They celebrate giving!

One man from Congo who is a university student in the U.S. said church is one of the things he misses most about Congo. A church service over there is more active than here. It's a celebration, even a kind of entertainment. (Remember, there are no movies or TV or iPods in Congo!) Kids look forward to it. They dress up in their good clothes, and they get to see their friends.