Oh Church Where Art Thou?

A few months ago, we started a journey of visiting churches as we decided to see what was going on in our community. It has certainly been an interesting experience and each place we have been to almost always has surprised us. Mostly it has been fun and encouraging to see how people in our town worship and the variety of ways in which they do it. We have seen large, fancy buildings and small humble ones, and a mix in between. Just in our local neighborhood there is a variety. We have seen a few friends here and there and my husband asked me today, where do our friends go to church? Sadly, that is not a common topic or thing discussed much. Some of our friends were at our old church and the rest of our friends are a fruit bowl of Christian denominations or don't go to church. I am not sure if we are going to pick one soon, we have no set deadline, but it would be good to find one place where we can start getting involved. That is, how can we give/ contribute to a place that is right for us. I think it has boiled down to where our kids are cared for while we worship, that the dogma of the church is acceptable, has some music, friendly folks, and that we can get there in a reasonable time on Sunday morning.