1 /5 Sierra King: I used to attend this church for service and also Bible study, womens study and worked in the media part of service back in 2015-2016! I honestly genuinely had a great experience at first meeting new people, especially the ladies who took me under their wings. I spent most of the week there either doing different studies or preparing for Sunday service. One service I brought my then new husband (we got married after 3 weeks of knowing each other so I had not introduced him to the leaders of the church) who stood up in the back of the church since I was working media and he sits alot during the week for work. Unfortunately someone in the congregation saw my husband and how he looked and reported to the head of the church that he was a terrorist. My husband is from Colombia but has Lebanese in his genetics so looks Egyptian. When I was told this I then rushed to one of the heads of the church to inform them that was my husband, and not a terrorist. It was very sad to see how someone in the congregation just look at his facial features and called him a terrorist. Especially with the amount of time I spent at that church and time I devoted to working the media, this was very devasting/traumatizing to me and still annoys me till today. He is Seventh day Adventist so he went to the service that day to help support me working media. After this incident which truly affected me, I then changed churches and now is a seventh day Adventist, where we worship on the sabbath (Saturday). Thankfully the churches we have visited are more diverse so thankfully no body has assumed my husband is a terrorist. I waited years to post about it here but wanted any TXST students (who was like me) to be aware that while the services and Bible studies were nice, the congregation is not very diverse. I would hate for this to happen to someone else who is just wanting to worship our Lord Jesus Christ and bring in new followers.
