Where is Your Church?

[VictorBravo]

Urban, I suppose, if you can call a metropolitan area of 30,000 urban.

But where we live it's more tumbleweeds and rangeland than town. Church is 15 minutes away in downtown Lewiston ID.

 

[N. Eshelman]

In the middle of 9,818,605 other people. Urban.

 

[Notthemama1984]

In the middle of 9,818,605 other people. Urban.

That's it?

 

[Edward]

In the immediate area - extremely wealthy to the north, poor, predominately Hispanic to the west after a band of predominately homosexuals, predominately homosexual to the south, and ranging rich to hip to poor to the east.

Wow! So how are things going there? Sounds like you are in the thick of things! (guessing you have less success in the north, thinking of what Jesus said about the rich, noble, etc,.)

About half the membership comes from the wealthy area to the immediate north. The rest are scattered around the metropolitan area, including a significant chunk of folks from Laos.

 

[PuritanCovenanter]

Our Church is just North of a Urban area in a Suburb area that ministers to all kinds of people. It is one of the most diverse ethnic groups I have ever been involved with. But most of the congregates are upper middle class.

 

[Nate]

As suburban as it gets. White picket fences wherever you look and churches on every corner.

 

[beej6]

I split the difference. We're in a city of 200,000, 10 minutes to rural, 1 1/2 hours to major metropolitan areas (Bay Area, Sacramento).
A better term than suburban would be either "ex-urban" or "edge city" (I know that term is already passe, and we're really too far distance wise, but there are many, many folks who commute to the Bay Area or Sacramento or points south from here.

 

[jambo]

For 21 years our church was on the edge of Lisburn and close to nationalist west Belfast in which during the troubles the army would have called "bandit country." We have now moved temporarily to a city centre location and are hoping over the next few months to move into a permanent home in a housing estate not too far from the centre

 

[LawrenceU]

Our church is scattered across two counties. We meet at the Mobile Botanical Gardens. It is a country setting in the middle of the strange suburbia of Mobile.

 

[C. M. Sheffield]

I find myself hesitant to vote, feeling I can't accurately be labeled as any of these. I grew up rural, am currently rural, but have had much of my spritual understanding shaped by 25 years in an urban environment.

The question is about where your church IS currently located.

 

[JBaldwin]

Our church is located on Main Street of a small rural town.

 

[BJClark]

C. M. Sheffield

We are a growing rural area...don't know how much they can really grow around the church itself, as much of the land surrounding the church is 'swamp land' so there are still lots of tree's...but one of the main roads they are working to make it six lanes..as they are trying to grow the area up south and west of us..

 

[Scottish Lass]

An older residential (non-suburb) section of a city of roughly 1,000,000 in the metro area; most of the homes here were built in the 1960s, and most of the neighborhood is Roman Catholic, though a noticeable Muslim presence is also here

I thought you all would be suburban? I think we would be too, though we are more subber than you!

I would definitely call y'all location rural, but our church property literally touches the old city limits/Urban Services District. Our manse is in the limits, and the lots adjoin.

 

[Philip]

Perhaps small town would be another category? We has historically been a county seat that has been swallowed by DC suburbia. Having a town and old-timers has a different sense than manufactured "community."

I'd call it suburban---twenty years ago I would have said rural, but it's definitely suburbia now.

 

[Des]

Suburban, but less than ten minutes from downtown Portland, Oregon.

 

[PreservedKillick]

I would say urban, if Tallahassee counts as urban

And then I could get really pedantic and ask what about exurbs, edge cities, etc?

 

[PresbyDane]

As urban as a church can get in Denmark anyway

 

[Edward]

I would say urban, if Tallahassee counts as urban

Tallahassee sure looked urban from Cairo (and for those from north of Albany (Al Benny), it is pronoucned KaRo with a long 'a' and a long 'o'