I've been at Providence Baptist for about ten years, after church hopping/shopping for a loooong time. It is a great place to grow in your relationship with Christ, and connect with other Christians.
Providence is a friendly, Christ-centered church, with a strong emphasis on teaching. They have an especially strong singles ministry, with four different single adult Sunday schools (which they call "LIFE Classes"), and wonderful Wednesday evening worship/teaching services for singles on the 1st, 3rd & (when there is one) 5th Wednesdays of each month.
Before settling on Providence, I attended many churches, some of which I liked a lot, but most had no singles ministry. I especially liked Cary Alliance (CMA), a smaller wonderful, friendly, Christ-centered church (with the best pot luck dinners anywhere), but at Cary Alliance I was just about the only single adult, other than a few elderly widows. Like Cary Alliance, Providence Baptist is a great church for families, but they also really go the extra mile to minister to single adults.
However, be aware of the fact that Providence is a BIG church. They have three worship services every Sunday morning (8, 9:30 & 11), and over 2000 typical attendence. With a church that size, if you make the mistake of only coming to the worship service, you'll never make any personal connections, because you'll probably never sit next to the same person twice. You really need to be in a Sunday School or small group of some sort. That would normally be a "LIFE Class," a/k/a adult Sunday school. Providence has LIFE Classes simultaneously with the worship services, at all three times. My LIFE Class meets at 11:00, so most of the folks in my class attend the 9:30 worship service. (A few attend the 8:00 worship service, and do something else at 9:30, like teach a children's Sunday school.)
The great thing, however, about such a big church, is the excellence: excellent teaching, excellent music, excellent opportunites for ministry, etc.. They even have an excellent web site, with an easy to remember web address: www.pray.org
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