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Old 06-15-2023, 05:54 AM
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Live Oaks Community Church (LOCC) behind Wal-Mart on 466. Good folks, pastoral staff who can relate to the congregation. Their strength is that they teach from the Bible, and emphasize "Christian" (some debate on what that means, I suppose) values in completely apolitical and non-finger-pointing sort of way. They treat visitors exactly the same as registered parishoners.

They also do a lot of outreach (packaging food for hungry children, helping the community members who cannot help themselves through a "honey-do" list as well as a program called "The Church Has Left The Building") where they have direct contact with people (as I understand it, not necessarily members of LOCC) and help them in various ways.

Bottom line: they're not Bible-pounders, and do not try to shove religion down your throat. To me they seem to live by the rule "let your life preach".