Life Church CU

 November 23, 2025

Life Church CU is strongly multicultural with weekly Sunday services in English (10:30), Spanish (10:00), and French (1:00). Their Facebook page also lists Mayan. Unfortunately, the website homepage lists service time as 9:30 and 10:30, so a friend and I went at the earlier time. Turns out­­—surprise!—that’s the Sunday School or Bible study hour. So this observation is from that session, not the regular worship service.

The parking in this rural area on High Cross Road was plenteous and easy. A gentleman in a suit opened the door for us with a greeting; a smiling young woman approached immediately, introduced herself, and escorted us to the sanctuary. She explained that the service starts in an hour, but that we were welcome to attend the Bible study now.

Our teacher jumped into his topic, the Lord’s Prayer, with a personal experience from his youth. He shared that after a transgression, he’d been careful to follow the instruction of his priest in offering the required prayers for forgiveness. But sometimes he could go beyond the repeated prayers and his heart would cry out to God. Children tend to naturally have faith he said. “I think a child has to be taught to be an atheist.”  It wasn’t until after his “Pentecost experience” at age thirty-one that this teacher developed a keen interest in digging deep into the Bible and communicating with his Abba Father.

Here are a few points he made this morning.

              ~He mistakenly thought he had to be talking to be praying.

              ~We must pray God’s will for ourselves and others, even if it means pain and suffering.

              ~Don’t study to be a good preacher. Study to know God better and you’ll be a good preacher.

              ~ To be forgiven yourself, remember you must always forgive others and never blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

              ~Ask God to show you how valuable you are to him.

              ~There has to be a beating, pressing, and a shaking in our lives to get the anointing.

The talk ended and some listeners clapped their approval. There had been a few called out affirmations during the talk. This class was attended by about fifty people in a fairly modern sanctuary decorated in tones of cool gray 

. I assumed there would be a lot more coming in for the 10:30 service. Children have their own classes, but a young family in front of us entered and exited with a child a several times. All generations, white, black, and Asian were in attendance. Most in the 9:30 class wore what you might call church clothing, suits and dresses, although our early escort sported some wildly fun boots and a guy I know came in later wearing shorts and a t-shirt.  

My friend and I were again greeted by a few people afterwards. In answer to my questions, one friendly woman explained that the church had indeed changed its name about a year ago from Apostolic Life to Life Church CU. Completely unrelated to CU Church (visited in September), this one is part of the Apostolic Pentecostal community of believers. Although I didn’t get to experience the English music here at Life Church today, enthusiastic worship music poured from the doors of the Spanish service as we went out.