Multi-ethnic, multi-cultural or both?

Grace Fellowship Church is a multi-ethnic church, but we are also multi-cultural.  What's the difference?

Multi-ethnic means that our church is composed of people from different ethnic backgrounds.  At the beginning of 2010, the ethnic makeup of GFC is:

53% - White

30% - African American

15% - Hispanic

2% - Asian

Multi-cultural means that our services include various cultural distinctives of the different ethnicities that make up our church.  For instance, our music is mainly contemporary, but we also sing gospel songs and an occasional song in Spanish.

Also, we recently took part in customs drawn from both the Indian and African cultures.  Our prayer ministers are from India and they informed us of a custom in Indian churches to print and distribute a Bible promise for the year. So, at the beginning of the year, we did just that. We had a promise printed in India and distributed it to our congregation. Also, we recently included a Nigerian Thanksgiving service in one of times of worship.  Both of these customs from other cultures greatly blessed our congregation.

It's exciting to be part of a church that includes people from many ethnic and cultural backgrounds! Together we are touching heaven and changing earth!