5 /5 Y: This church is still a five star after a couple of visits! This past Saturday I discovered that this church has English translation services to translate the service from Spanish to English, so if you are anything like me, who was raised in the USA having experienced a language switch where now English is your dominant language and you don’t feel like you really fit in with Anglo, Black, or super traditional Spanish churches, this is the church for you. Did you know that research supports that there is a widening gap between generations of Latinos just because of primary language loss? Then add the religious and cultural gap, and we have more issues to deal with in our Spanish churches than most people even realize. With their “simple church” concept, where youth involvement is evident from just scanning your eyes across the sanctuary to see young people behind instruments, Audio Visual, or Camera equipment, singing in English and in Spanish, providing live translation services, small group discussion groups, sports and food ministries, the Winter Park SDA Spanish Church is addressing more issues than they even realize! My husband and I are so thrilled to have found this church! We feel like we “fit in.” We want to help. We feel all North American SDA churches need to look at what Winter Park SDA is doing, if we want to retain more of our youth and people like me, now adults second generation Latinos.
