Joel and I have been trying to find a new church to go to here in Seoul- a major undertaking any time we move, complicated further by the fact that we are now looking for the "special" foreign language service. In the states, we usually went to the bright and early 8:00 am service, and stayed for Sunday school. Then, we took Aidan home for nap time around 11:00. Perfect.
Last week we tried a church that Kat and Tyler go to, called Onnuri. Not only did it loose points for the parking situation (we illegally double-parked on the side of a highway, but, in our defense, so did about 100 other cars) and requiring an incredible walk that included going up five flights of stairs holding a 35-lb kid, it also had no nursery for Aidan and (here's the kicker) started at 11:30, running until almost TWO.
So, this week we tried Seoul International Baptist Church, because they have a fun play group that I went to last week with Aidan. We thought, surely this has got to be better. All I can say is, they did indeed have a nursery. We showed up at 11:00 and left around 1:45 pm.
Seoul is no place for early birds. They have 24-hour movie theatres, the Namdemun and Dongdemun night markets, all kinds of late night events- so maybe no one is ready for church until early afternoon. Next week we are going to go on post, where we know people are used to getting up early, and we can be reasonably assured church will run the usual, U.S.-sanctioned 60 minutes.
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