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Local me er2 berth u wtumtSUAY, UtCEMBER 3, 1980 ion Staff ation Fire^ | vocallstoitip campus «(£' hurches overflow with students Clergymen seek reliefof'standing room only’ conditions entsp :40 p.m. to! istry Buili,.] By MARGARITA JAIME Battalion Reporter hat was once a typical Sunday ing church service in College ion is now becoming a modem- :or was trig (ajISermon on the Mount. Students Jildingbytirfib attend church services in the in theatiti. pcal area are dismayed to find stand- dowski, niij jroom only. ' p 11 a.m. mass at St. Mary’s jolic church is so crowded that jple stand in the aisles, on the ts leading up to the balcony and he lobby at the entrance to the someone i rdr uurescentlgi L e First Baptist Church of Goi ng, Kozlov I Station must add chairs in the y Buildi:.; and squeeze people in the 1 an alarm i^ s in order to seat the large con- central radBpt' 0115 - her caile; hat are the local churches doing ge StationFi® ev ' ate problem? vskisaid. St. Mary’s, where 70 percent of layedimmt ^congregation are stuaents, has: ■cause of a mass to * ts Sunday- ical Sciencei®^ u ^ e ' t year 75 chairs were set up in finance arid f plant open 'moon. ie Acadeni directly to used an ei lie balcony to try and lighten the y, Roberts iversity sat# “When our services *m ^ etextre melyfull, we lab fire, the people know there is a closed ircuit television in mother room that can e used as an alterna- ive, ” the Rev. David Rowland said. maintenantd king light lilding befm i, but "soi st have sm d the fire ent spoke > and an amlc : calls. iding load, the Rev. Bill Brooks I. But after the next week those |s were taken up, and once again masses were crowded. We have added a 1 p.m. mass on W nO|*jday,” he said, “but that may not wip. People want to go to mass »II • ften they want to go to mass. They /illOJi^ttogo at 10 a.m. or 11:30 a.m., Bat one in the afternoon.” . fill baptist Church of College dS Jlilltation has also added an extra ch service and is experimenting ith a new way to reach their Ishioners. or the past six Sundays, we’ve |n working with closed circuit [vision,’’ the Rev. David R. Row- , associate pastor, said. icn our services get extremely | we let the people know that e is a closed circuit television in jther room that can be used as an jmative.” However, Rowland said that the prch “ironing out” some s Internatkwl - A 14-year- 90 percent • $1.7 nonth plusiit lis life in i nent with 17 fire killed! s, Brian Hi rzog, 7, *1 irents, Ma® of rural Sei] seven w® veston •s and toes 90 percent > reconsW and he has for moreil The Rev. Andrew r Seidel, of Grace Bible Church, said he is 1” that there is such a dilemma, ^Jlthmgh he said he calls for tthouldn’t call the over- yfimvding a problem. f varying a € leginning it is a problem, its parents, B i ni ' ce p ro bJ em to and an„ . . . will receivi’#ave, he said. . ofthl nblems that came with the closed The First Baptist Church of Col lege Station has also considered an expansion program to deal with the increase of students. “We just voted to purchase 13 acres on FM 2818,” Rowland said. “It’s a long range type idea at this time, but with the student popula tion increasing as fast as it is, it might be in the near future.” However, the A&M United Methodist Chruch has expanded. Two years ago, a new student center was built to help alleviate the in crease of Methodist students from the community church. The Wesley Foundation, on Tau ber road, which was built for stu dents in 1978, may soon be faced with the same dilemma as other local churches. The foundation was built to accommodate the 100 students that tried to fit in their small room chapel, before they expanded. “The foundation seats 250 to 300 students,” the Rev. John Riley said. “And I think that in three or four more years, we will have fit the max imum amount of students in it.” Grace Bible Church has also added an extra church service, and the Rev. Andrew Seidel said he hopes to build on to the present church, at 701 Anderson, despite financial difficulties. He said he is delighted that there is such a dilemma, although he said he wouldn’t call the overcrowding a problem. “If it is a problem, it’s a nice problem to have,” Seidel said. Along with the Methodist church, the University Lutheran Chapel also has no problem with overcrowding. “We re doing fine,” the Rev. Hubert Beck said. “We’ve added new chairs that have given more sea- “I don’t care how good the sermon is, if you have to stand through the whole service — forget it!” the Rev. Bill Brooks, of St. Mary’s Catholic church, said. ting capacity, so we don’t have a sea ting problem,” he explained. The major problem the churches are contemplating right now is the effect the overcrowded services have on students who come to church and have to stand. “I personally feel that it turns them (students) off, ” Brooks said. “In a matter of a few weeks, a decline in student body attendence will be seen at all the masses. “I don’t care how good the sermon is, if you have to stand through the whole service — forget it!” Brooks said he is uncomfortable about losing the students. “Students come to church because they want to; it’s a committment they make,” he said. “However, because of the large congregations, students feel the service is impersonal, and they are scared off.” Oxley also agreed that when a stu dent goes to an overcrowded service he may be turned off. “Many people come from chur ches where they participate im mensely in the church,” he ex plained. “They come to a church with a big congregation, and sudden ly they don’t seem to count any more.” Although the Episcopal church has not yet reached “standing room only” services, it is considering adding a new mass. “If overcrowding is a problem at our church, it’s a nice problem to have,” Oxley said. “It only shows that we’re doing a good job. ” He said that it is fun for him to watch a church grow, and to see “more and more people turn towards God.” Rowland said he also feels that when the students are involved in the church they have a sense of im portance. “Our students are very involved in the church and are very reliable in the jobs they do,” he said. He also said the students are very involved in the ministry and are teaching in the church. Rowland said that the First Baptist Church in Bryan is trying to help ease College Station’s overcrowding problem by attracting students to their church. Riley, of the Wesley Foundation, said that he feels bad about having students turn away from the church because of overcrowding. “Students come to church to be somebody,” he said. “With a school as big as Texas A&M, a student is suddenly a no body — just a number. “We try to get to know the stu dents and get them involved in the church. And we must be doing a good job, if our enrollment is in creasing,” Riley said. What causes such an increase in church participation among college students? Riley said he feels the instability of the nation and the fact that the stu dent is away from home may cause students to turn towards God. “The student feels like a person at church, not like a number,” he said. 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