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By MARGARITA JAIME
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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-
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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-
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t year 75 chairs were set up in
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“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.
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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
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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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