ITEMS OF INTEREST August 20, 2007 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Kevin Sullivan, Nigel Reynolds

IN A COUNTRY where about 2 percent of the population attend church regularly and many churches draw barely enough worshipers to fill a single pew, the Sunday morning service at this old mission hall was one rocking celebration.

In the middle of all the keyboards, drums, and hallelujahs, Stendor Johansen, a blond Danish sea captain built like a 180-pound ice cube, sang along and danced, as he said, like a Dane—without moving. ... "I feel energized when I leave one of these services" [said Johansen].

The International Christian Community (ICC) is one of about 150 churches in Denmark that are run by foreigners, many from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, part of a growing trend of preachers from developing nations coming to Western Europe to set up new churches or to try to reinvigorate old ones.

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