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Multilingual Morning for Methodist Moms

November 12th, 2008 cultural, historical, local, spiritual

Founders of Blacksburg United Methodist Church

This morning, while holding the door open for preschool at Blacksburg United Methodist Church, I was able to greet various parents and kids with “howdy”, “good morning”, “guten tag”, “buenos dias”, and “dobre dien”. I was waiting to see the mom to whom I could have said “salam alaikum”, but she must have come through another door. Now that I’m looking it up I’m realizing that I can also say “god morgen” (Danish), and I’ll probably need to ask the many Asian moms what I should say in their respective languages. A new dad also asked me a question in some kind of Scandinavian/Germanic accent.

Could the 18th century Scotch-Irish/German founders of Blacksburg United Methodist Church have possibly had the slightest idea how many cultures would be served by their preschool ministry? The door to this church is so wide. Kudos BUMC!