This past Sunday, I had the pleasure of attending a mass at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Holland, MI. Here, services are offered in both English on Spanish. There is a bilingual service on Saturday nights, Spanish services on Sundays and Wednesdays, and English services on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. The staff is a diverse mixture of people of both white and Hispanic decent.
While the church service that I attended was in English, I found it really interesting that church services right here in West Michigan were so diverse. I had no idea to what extent the Spanish speaking community was accomadated here. I know that Holland has a large Hispanic migrant farm worker population and I am really glad that there are places that they can easily celebrate and embrace their own language and culture locally.
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