The Community Baptist Church is starting a new Sunday school that will be conducted in Spanish for the children of Hispanic families who attend the church. There are already services held in Spanish on Sunday mornings, but the Sunday school is only in English.
The church is trying to reinvent itself, said Pastor Josh Wright. “We want to get more younger people and more community members here,” he said.
He said they mostly have older people and young families attending, not normally college students or younger generations.
The new Sunday school will allow the Hispanic kids who go to the church to learn the faith through their own native language. “We want everyone to feel included,” Wright said. “There’s no reason why the kids can’t learn about God through the Spanish language.”
The church started reaching out to the Hispanics in the community by adding a Spanish service during Easter of last year. Wright said it has been going well so far, and he looks forward to the growing community. He said some cultural barriers have been difficult to overcome. “But we’re going slow and slowly breaking those walls down,” he said.
The church does various activities to reach out to the community and to get more people involved. During the summers they have free carwashes and hand out water bottles outside of grocery stores on hot days, he said.
They have also done a community giveaway four years in a row now. “We open the church on a Saturday morning and if we have it, you need it, go ahead and take it,” he said.
There are also family fun days after church where everyone brings food to share and the kids play out on the back field. “It’s a place to enjoy time together without having to spend any money,” he said.
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