Sept. 16; Back to Church Sunday

Three Fairfield churches, First Presbyterian Church, Word of Life Lutheran Church and Fairfield Friends Church, will participate in Back to Church Sunday, a national movement of churches, Sept. 16. Everyone is welcome to attend.

National Back to Church Sunday is an initiative that is ?Inviting America Back to Church.? It seeks to reach the un-churched and de-churched ? people who once attended church, but don?t any more ? and invite them to return for a special Sunday.

?We pray that folks in our community will come and visit a church of their choice and find the hope, healing and fellowship their hearts long for,? said the Rev. Len Maselli, pastor of Fairfield Friends Church.

Since its inception, National Back to Church Sunday participants have invited more than 5 million family members, friends and neighbors to their churches.

About 14,000 churches are expected to participate this year, inviting more than 2 million visitors.

The American Religious Identification Survey showed that 83 percent of American adults identify themselves as Christians. In contrast, another survey by the Barna Group indicated only about 20 percent of Americans attends church on any given Sunday. Back to Church Sunday?s goal is to invite or re-invite America to rediscover church.