First Presbyterian Church Growing Tree

The most beautiful and welcoming church on the beach, open to all! You will surely drive by this incredible newly built church sometime during your Myrtle Beach stay. With several traditional and contemporary service options, I encourage you to come worship one Sunday and really make the most of your vacation. You won’t be disappointed.

Quite clean, has a playground for children, nice.

They’re learning tree is where my child went to school. Great school great teachers absolute perfect.

The instructor was absolutely not even trying to be accommodating to everyone as far as not wearing a mask in church. This all started with Fauci saying that the masks were absolutely useless against covid then later backtracking and saying that it makes people feel good so we should wear a mask. Sanitarily, it does no good. I have COPD and I asphyxiate when wearing a mask. It’s very difficult because you are forced to breath in the CO2 that yiu just exhaled. Breathing becomes a task. He said that he could only accommodate this one person that had been going to the church longer than I had. He also said that I was trying to put myself above the other person, make myself more important by requesting an accommodation. I thought he was very unkind and insulting. It was his black and white rule which meant I couldn’t attend until masks were no longer required. They sent notes out each week on updates for certain people. On reply I asked if masks were still required on every note and not once did I receive an answer. Then the notes quite coming. No one called to see how I was doing. If you have been a member for along time they are good to you. If you have just moved here they couldn’t care less. This man chose the very worst light to see me in and was less than kind. They basically, by reading the above behavior, said they could’t care less if they ever saw my husband or I again. They won’t.

We were here on vacation two Sundays ago for Reformation Sunday. The content of the sermon was not enough spiritual food to satisfy; we all could have used more exegesis and fewer jokes. The bagpipe music was interesting but, particularly when coupled with the tartan procession, felt gimmicky rather than a worthy spiritual pursuit pointing man to God. The church was more than half-empty, and there were few young people. No one spoke to us afterward, so it did not have a welcoming feeling. It seemed like there was more effort put into making a beautiful church building than building up people's spiritual lives by the lively preaching of the word. I am upset that it has bent to modern customs and has midweek services so people can use the Lord's Day as they please rather than expecting people to conform to God's will.