For those of you who don't have family to visit this Christmas or miss the Christmas tradition of a Christmas service. Mountain View Church is offering a no strings attached invitation to our full cafe brunch and Christmas service.

Date 17th December

Location Las Rozas (reachable by renfe 10 min walk form Las Rozas station)

for more info Christimas Surprise

any questions feel free to email me at robertlederman122 @ hotmail.com

thanks rob.

what do you mean by...

"no strings attached invitation to our full cafe brunch and Christmas service"

is this a free brunch?

if so, you might get a lot or people knockin on the door

saludos,
jer...

As it's for a church, I would assume they mean they are simply not going to try to convert you. I've been to the church though, it was the one that Shawn attended when he was here, it's a nice group of people. A lot of Americans though!

by no strings attached I mean no proselytizing (thanks to google for finding the correct spelling on that one )

For many of us (and Chris and I for many years) attending a church service was part and parcel of Christmas and Easter (like most it was the only time we went). What I didn't like about some of the services I attended was the emphasis on outreach (proselytizing). I think its pretty clear if you attend what it's all about.
We did a Curryaoke (again thanks to google for correct spelling of karaoke)night and it was a blast and had about 200 people show up and had great time.

Church (in my opinion) consists of 3 parts, music (worship) the sermon and the people, and its very rare (none that I've been in) to get all three right. Most modern (seeker sensitive to use the American terminology) Church's have great music but boring sermons. We attended one place (once) were the sermon was sooo bad our friends apologized for it (it was bapist so what do you expect!) Mountain view is unusual that all three are great. Richard, bless his heart, keeps the message to 30mins and uses multimedia to keep me awake

My fondest Christmas service memory was attending a Christmas eve service in an old small anglican church in Germany, the acoustics made the choir of 20 sound like 200. Its was beautiful. Sang all the hymns I grew up with, while I wouldn't want to attend every week I really enjoyed the Christmas service.

Anyways like I said if a Christmas service is part of your tradition that your more than welcome to attend brunch is free.

I've heard of the church and understand that it's very low-key (casual dress, although for an Xmas brunch maybe you'll want to deck out a bit) and open.

Yes, the church services are very casual. They accept all for who they are. I have been to tw of the Christmas services and even helped serve brunch at both of them. It's great to meet many people and like Bonnie said there are a lot of AMericans, but only because many Spaniards think that anything outside of the Catholic church is strange. I AM NOT STARTING A DEBATE HERE. Just my personal observations.

Have a great day,

Shawn

There's alot of (rather typical unfortunatly) ladys whose Spanish husbands don't attend. One downside to making friends only with expats is they usually move away. It's about a 30-30-30 mix of Spanish Americans and Brits. Currrently not as many expats (Americans on long term job).

You know, Tim, I had someone expalin that to me when I was in Madrid. He said that if you stay in Madrid long term, it's a life of goodbyes.

but . . .

Every goodbye ain't gone.

Shawn