I went there from ages 5-18.
I genuinely had fun up until I had to join the youth group at around 12 or so and they started teaching us insane things. Dinosaurs walked the earth with humans. The earth is only 2,000 years old. Anti-evolution. Divorce is a sin but remarriage after divorce and having another kid is an even worse sin and that said kid would be living in sin from birth(Since this applied to me, I asked what that made me and I was told my family was excused from this and I was just a miracle. Huh? How were we absolved from this so-called sin?) The LGBT are just faking and are rebelling against their parents. Those were were in the LGBT were shamed. I once walked out of a Sunday School class because the video we were watching said black people and white people were separate species. I was also the subject of some 'You have a cat? Are you afraid your mom's gonna feed it to you!?' 'You have weird slant eyes!! open them up more!!' "jokes" from some adults.
This church has outdated, conservative ideas while acting like they were progressive. If I could split the rating up, I genuinely did have a fun and good time up until I was around 12 - I liked the sunday school teachers, summer faith adventure, the christmas parties, and other events they had for kids. After I joined Youth Group, though, it was about 6 years of homophobic, elitist, conservative, uncomfortable teachings. If you are not white, you will be subjected to prejudice.
If I had joined the church after the age of 12, I would be giving it only 1 star rather than 3. The 3 stars are for the lovely sunday school teachers I had as a kid. read more