As some of my readers will know, my family and I are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (aka the Mormons). Explains the 6 kids, right? 🙂
As part of our trip to Europe, we realized we’d be in London over Sunday, leaving on a 2:40pm flight out of Heathrow
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Given that we’d need to spend an hour to get out to Heathrow, plus 2 hours to navigate the airport and go through security, we knew we wouldn’t have time to do a ton of regular sightseeing, we decided we wanted to go to church.
Church on Vacation
I know some people don’t go to church while on vacation, and while I would say I’m not a 100% stickler about it, I think unless it was super inconvenient, we try to make a concerted effort to go to church even while we’re on vacation. We went to church in Idaho Falls, Idaho while we were at Yellowstone this summer, and today’s church was the Hyde Park 2nd Ward in central London
It was the same as it ever was! Boring high council speaker, returned missionary speaker, sustainings and releasings, even if we did sing the “wrong” While of These Emblems we Partake 🙂
I like to say one of my favorite things about going to church on vacation is the fact that the wi-fi password is the same in all the buildings around the world! An important part of a church to me is the sense of the community, and walking into the church and having my phone start “buzzing” is like the church’s way of saying “Welcome back Brother Miller”
Enjoy the #sundayselfie I took on Instagram
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What about you? Do you go to church on vacation?
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We often try to attend church when traveling, sometimes our own religion and sometimes other churches. When we are traveling with our kids I find it often gives them something familiar, but it’s also fun at times to go experience something else. This weekend we’re in Washington DC for vacation so we were going to try to go to services at the National Cathedral, but now we’re stuck in a hotel with a sick kid, so probably not.
We go to church on vacations too. I look where we are going to be on each Sunday and find the local church. We are Catholic so most of the time it is easy to find a church with a convenient Mass time. http://www.masstimes.org is helpful. The only places we have trouble are in the rural west, especially Utah.
Yeah – gotta watch out for those Mormons in Utah 😀
I haven’t before, but on our next Europe trip, we plan to go in Vienna! I’ve already scouted out churches and found one that looks very biblically-based like we believe. I’ve figured out where it meets, and they even do the service in english, because it’s for locals AND those there from other places. 🙂 Very cool!
We are faithful attendees at home, but rarely go when on vacation. I am embarrassed to admit this. I’m glad this article was written. You don’t hear much about this. We’ve only recently been traveling outside of Disney World, so we need to make it a priority.
I don’t go to church but my dad was a Baptist minister and when I was a child we’d go to different denominations while on vacation. It was fun to see how other people worshipped.
We try to go to Church on vacation. Recently on a Florida trip my son and I attended a small Baptist Church. Googled the closest. One of the nice things is that you are a visitor and you know you will be welcomed.
We use the church directories here:
http://faithsaves.net/church-directory/
to find a church when on vacation.
Always, if I’m there’s a Calvary Chapel where I’m traveling. I love seeing the differences in church styles. Each Calvary Chapel, while having the same core beliefs and teaching from the Bible, has a different worship style.