Church Unyousual

Food for Faith Fellowship International is an unusual church in the los angeles area that uses lively urban contemporary music to create intense worship in an intimate, informal setting, offers innovative, practical spiritual instruction, and inspires people with little or no church experience to build an intelligent relationship with God.

The pastor wears an earring. Shorts and jeans are normative, but anything is possible if it will help to make the point--from a Black Panther get up to smilie face boxer shorts over a pair of slacks to an apron. No bible, no problem. Multiple translations are flashed across a video screen during the sermon. Each teaching session begins with a relevant, sometimes irreverent video clip. Perhaps most unusual is the style of music. In addition to high energy urban contemporary Christian music, Food for Faith transforms secular music for sacred worship by converting the lyrics while preserving the beats and melodies. The list of converted songs includes She Bangs (Ricky Martin), Brickhouse (Commodores), Celebration (Kool & the Gang), I Feel Good (James Brown), Drop it Like it's Hot (Snoop Dogg), Fight the Power (Public Enemy), and Superstition (Stevie Wonder) which for a time was the church's unofficial theme song, "Churcheligion."

The fact that the church once met at Magic Johnson Theatres before relocating next door to a 'massage parlor' adds to its unusual profile, and provides another reason why it merits your strong consideration when looking for the place where you can meet God just as you are and connect with Him on purpose.