First Baptist Church Of Springfield

We are a military family coming from Okinawa, Japan. We have been visiting several churches trying to find our church home. Today was our first visit and we had a great experience. We went on Sunday for the 10:30 am service. Found out there were two to choose from, one traditional service and one contemporary service. We chose the contemporary service since that’s what we were used to in Okinawa. I will say it was nice having a choice. We met the Worship Band and Contemporary Worship Leader, Sly Samudre, who was very nice and welcoming. Tom, walked us around and gave us a tour.
I did enjoy the contemporary service as I enjoy more contemporary worship music. I also met quite a few military families that were in my age range (30’s to 40’s) but they had a great variety of people.
The bible study for kids in middle school goes earlier in the morning at 9:15 am so our 12 year old sat at our service. I think it would be more beneficial to have Sunday school for the middle school and high school kids at the same time as the parents service so that they can socialize with kids their own age. But they do have Children’s church at 10:30 am of you have children from K-​4^th grade during worship. They do have a youth program for 7^th-​12^th graders on Sunday evenings from 6 – 8 pm that my daughter wants to try.
My son is 2 and has food allergies. We went to another church and even though we told them he had food allergies, they still gave him crackers which caused a severe allergic reaction. I was very relieved that at First Baptist church of Springfield, they took great care to let the child care workers know that he had food allergies and to make sure he only received food I bought in for him. My son had such a great time that he did not want to leave when we went to pick him up. I am happy I went to check it out. I feel as this may be my home. I will definitely be back with my family!