Church Observation Paper

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I propose to explore the pastors and other church teams include praise, media and worship teams in my church in Irvine because this place makes me interest to observe how many people were using their own times to socializing with others, praying for someone else, and studying a bible with others. Also, they were using their own times and feel passionate to prepare for every Thursdays and Sundays worships all the time. I will observe some pastors about how they were preparing for their sermons in before and after the church service and how they feel in every week after they finished the Sunday service or after the events such as retreats or praying time in their own as well. I also wanted to observe how they felt and the process of being a
Also, it is very natural to take pictures because most of the pastors and church leaders are welcoming newcomers and like to take lots of pictures with them as the process of fellowships to connect with them. Also, it is a very perfect place to use field observations because my church is located very easily to see within streets and many people are walking around and work together for the events in the church and worships to provide others to come and worship to God. Furthermore, many pastors are open minded and active in welcoming with semi structured interviews because they were happy to answering the questions and share their life stories to process to believing the God and preach their sermons all the time. I could get approval from pastors about my project and church leaders then they will very open minded and loved to help me to gather information because they are always like to having communications with others and they want to hear more stories and understand third person point of view

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