This is a very pretty church…read more The services and music are very old school. About as close as you will come to a pre-Vatican Ii mass in Latin. Heavy on the incense. The hymns are all slow, 1600s type, almost Gregorian chant accompanied only by the slow drone of the organ. You definitely will not hear guitar, piano or drums. No skipping by with only entrance, communion and recessional hymns, every responsorial, every amen is sung with slow organ accompaniment. Not saying this is good or bad. Some will like it, others will feel like they are attending a funeral. Perhaps related to the above, but also tied to the loss of the parish school, is that all younger people have essentially vanished. Younger families have moved to other parishes or stopped attending. At many masses, even the alter servers have gray hair. Sometimes it seems like you are attending services at a nursing home. Almost no one under 60. The pastor is a good man who seems very spiritual and caring. However, he does not want to hear about making the services more modern and appealing to young people. If you don't like the high energy,, Amen, Alleluia type services at some churches, this may be for you. Likewise, if you are less moved by old school very somber services, you may want to explore other options. Update. Services continue to drift even further into the past. In recent months, almost every mass now includes hymns or responsirials in Latin. Mumbling incantations which no one understands. I do not think father is a pope Francis fan, so maybe it's that. Unfortunately, the net result is the type of ritualistic service that teaches kids to hate going to church. The congregation grows ever smaller, ever older.

The Bible tells believers "do not grow weary in well-doing". IMO we must remember the purpose of…read morethe local church is to point people to the saving grace of Jesus and to serve one another... I was disappointed to see a negative post because VFB was not able/willing to provide Uber-like services to a Philadelphia Hospital for someone who never took the time to come to a service or reach out in any other way to get to know the mission, message or purpose of this local church which helps SO many non-members from its community. If you're looking for perfection or a solution to your problems, look to Christ first. If you're looking to serve and grow as a person, family, etc. visit VFB. It might be just where God wants YOU!

I'm cancer survivor and need a small surgery date drive because the procedure doesn't not allow me…read moreuse Uber. I have no family here and work day not good for my neighbor, I called this church the lady's who answer phone was very cold, said "we are all busy no one can help". I admire peoples time I already explained I took Uber went to hospital myself, reduce waiting time, just pick me back from Penn to my home only 20 mins driving time. Was sad when need help but people of the church treat me in such cold attitude.

So excited to have found this church right in my backyard! I love everything about it! Everyone is…read morefriendly and welcoming. They offer an amazing, caring youth and children's program. The worship band provides beautiful, uplifting music, and the pastoral message ties Bible scripture to everyday life in real, relatable ways. Thankful for my new church home!

I will preface this review by saying I hope it doesn't sound too critical because it was overall a…read morepositive worship experience. We attended this church by an invitation of our family members who are regular attendees. Initial impression of atmosphere was pleasant enough, but I felt they were not particularly visitor-friendly since no one spoke to us (in their defense, we were sort of rushing to proceed to find our seats and sit down as the service was already in progress at 10:30 when we arrived). Since this church celebrates Eucharist weekly (well about that, there was no words of institution to speak of, so I felt they were just going through the motion), there were communion elements in plastic containers made available on a table at the entrance to the sanctuary for you to pick them up without any words of explanation--again I thought it was not too visitor-friendly. Good contemporary praise & worship music selections. Service is well-organized and gives an impression of well-polished/rehearsed appearance. Nothing sloppy about this worship service from the beginning to the end--excellent. A children's pastor got up and proceeded to speak quite at length on why only child dedication was permitted and not baptism. I felt very awkward and alienated since we come from a church tradition where children are baptized as infants as our two children are. I didn't understand why they had to go out of their way to alienate a group of believers when the Bible does not explicitly prohibit infant baptism and suggests such practice occurred when the entire household of faith was baptized in to the fellowship of believers. Anyway... I thought pastor's preaching was to the point, and he delivered a very good message on fasting (though I had a question about his illustration of personal experience he used to make the main point). At the conclusion of the service we helped to put away chairs as it was the last service (second) of the day and left. I'd say it was a better than average experience overall. I hope they will make more efforts to better welcome visitors...

Our family has been going to Daybreak for 11 years. We really love the people, they are our…read moreextended family. They care for us and help us grow to be fully devoted followers of Christ. We particularly love how our church strives to reach out to our community in many different ways on a regular basis. Outreach is very important to our church. We also just adore Pastor Dave and his messages. Everyone is welcome at Daybreak!

Been attending Daybreak since 2007. Pastor we started with left and the Associate Pastor was…read morepromoted to lead Pastor. He's doing a great job with the weekly messages. Great application to our life today. The music if you like contemporary is very good. People seem to care a lot for the children (not our need). Serve coffee and donuts almost every Sunday and communion about once a month. This is a young church with a lot of young children running around after the service. Very few people over 55.