GREENWOOD, NE Day 2. Today we drove into Lincoln to attend Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church.  It is a small church of several years' existence, though it is the only OPC in Nebraska.  It was a welcome change from our experience last week.  Across the street (to the right in photo below) is a very large mega-church with a large full parking lot.  Cars poured in there as we entered the small lot here, and as we exited the lot after the service, we had to wait a while for the exit flow of vehicles to wane enough for us to pull out onto the road.

We found out this morning that they recently were moved to a different presbytery in the Midwest, which had a presbytery meeting last week in Chicago.  Their former presbytery has ceased to exist since there must be at least 4 churches to constitute a presbytery and they were down to 2.  They used to have 5, with some in Kansas and another state to the south, then one went to the PCA and two others dwindled down to nothing.  I guess that's life out here on the prairie. 

Faith Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Betty Beside Large Blue Spruce in Front of Faith OPC

Faith OPC holds two worship services each Sunday, one at 11:00 am and another at 1:30 pm.  We asked for whom the second service is designed and were told it is actually the evening service held early enough so that commuters from long distances can return home afterward before dark in winter.  One cheerful lady told me that they commute from Kearney, 143 miles from here, a 2-hour drive each way.  I mentioned that the Puritans in the early New England colonies practiced something similar, enabling the horse-drawn wagons to return home to the farms from church before dark.  They brought food with them and had lunch at the church after the first service, attended the second service, then returned home.  This lady said that they do the same; this conversation was after the first service, so she dismissed herself to go to another room where the congregation was gathering for lunch.

There were fewer than 20 people in attendance today.