Let the Church Say Amen

Let the church say amen

Walking in to a location filled with the most powerful knowledge that you can ever receive. A place that is filled with love, humbleness, and a hunger for a power that is great then thyself. A place where no is selfish or always talking about me, me, me. Where with every turn there is a person sitting, standing or ushering someone to a seat. Where everyone is dressed in there Sundays best ready to receive the word from God. You hear almost everything in this place; crying babies, crying adults, sweet music, and a pastor that brings wisdom form above. This is the place I found my first love; this is the place I call home.

Antioch is the place where I went to find my first love; the place where all my joy and love is restored to me every time I walk in the building. Every Sunday and Monday I walk into Antioch and take my favorite sit in the house, the choir stand. My seat is always the same the 2nd seat form the end on the 2nd row, and it hasn't changed yet. I sit next to a wonderful group of women that all happen to be older than myself. Mrs. Jackie, whom is a nurse at LSU health, sits to my right; she has long brownish-red hair that is either bone straight or curled next to perfection. To my left is Aunt Jerry, everyone calls her that because she is related to half the people that attend Antioch. Aunt Jerry has a very small frame but she cooks like a lady twice her size. My second love is singing, when I hear the music playing a force comes over me and in the church they call this force the Holy Ghost. I just let go and give my all to the song I`m singing and to God.

My church family makes Antioch a great place to go to church. From warm welcomes and decisions about your favorite football team, to the babies being born and the school children excited to see their friends. The first time I attended Antioch I felt like I was born in the state of Louisiana and grew up with the people I met here. The members took my mother, my sisters and I and treated us like family. Most families see and talk to each other maybe once a month or on holidays, but not this family. I talk to my family every other day, from my sister Winne, who is down in Ruston to my minster of music minister Johnson. We are very close at Antioch, even thou the majority of the members are two families, the Sneed`s and the Lars's. We blend and make one Antioch.

Antioch is not one of the biggest churches in Bossier but it's not the smallest either. Starting from the back of the building, we have to different entrance ways. The entrance to the left leads the closet which holds the robes for the choir members and a list of other things from extra drums to props for the annual musical. The choir room, also know to the adults as their Sunday school calls, in this room is where the choir gets ready to sing for the church on Sunday. In the choir