ARMS WAVE IN THE AIR, HANDS OUTSTRETCHED AS IF TO GRAB SOMETHING FLEETING. It’s Friday night at MyCity Youth, fists and music pumping. Teenagers and pre- teens sway transfixed, all eyes on the stage, where a techno- pop band of sorts scurries around under colored lights. Reminiscent of a Disney-syn- thesized, TV-spinoff group, they belt out a tune from the songbook. Pathway to God, dance party for conformist adolescents, cult, or perhaps an amalgam? The answer depends on whom one asks. “John,” a 56-year-old small-
business owner who moved to San Diego in 1989 and who cur- rently resides in coastal North County, is conflicted. On many a Friday night, he can be seen dropping off his kids at the
weekly MyCity Youth gathering in Carlsbad; yet, he has misgiv- ings, some vague, others taking the form of specific complaints about how MyCity is run. Func- tioning as a recruitment arm of C3, a nondenominational Prot- estant mega-church, MyCity is, according to John, a shadowy youth group that aggressively targets teens by offering financial incentives to enlist other kids in the cause. But, he frets, “What is their cause?” I spoke with David Chid-
dick, who, along with his wife, Briana, serves as lead youth pas- tor for MyCity. “We’re part of C3 Global [formerly Christian City Church International], a church started by Phil and Chris Pringle in Sydney, Australia. Our pastor, Jurgen Matthesius, and his wife, Leanne, moved here 11 years ago to start C3 San Diego.”
“We don’t teach them to rebel. The closer you get to God, the more you’re going to
love people, including
your parents.” David Chiddick In an effort to learn more
about what C3 is trying to incul- cate in San Diego teens, I asked Chiddick, who preaches pri- marily at the Carlsbad location, about the Wikipedia description of C3 Church: “‘Pentecostalism, Evangelical, Charismatic.’ Is that accurate?” “Yeah, I think so. I don’t
know who writes those articles, but we absolutely believe in the
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power of God and that the Holy Spirit is present and alive today. The terms ‘pentecostal’ and ‘charismatic’ have been abused a little bit by people. In the past, people have used these terms to describe churches that speak in tongues. Now, let me say that we absolutely believe in speaking in tongues and we do practice that. But there are people who’ve tarnished the terms ‘pentecos-
tal’ and ‘charismatic,’ what they mean, and what it means to actu- ally move in the gifts of the spirit. Speaking in tongues is a gift of the spirit.” When I spoke with John, he
wasn’t aware of C3’s glossola- lia but was nonetheless struck by the dichotomy between his church youth group experience in a small Midwestern town and what’s offered at MyCity Youth, as well as other congregations of its ilk. “I went to United Method-
ist Youth groups as a teen, had friends who went to Catholic youth services, but church was church, organ and hymns, right? Now, you go to a non-denomi- national church (I’ve attended a few) and it’s all pop music, gui- tars, and drum kits. Words are up via Powerpoint so you can sing along if you don’t know the lyrics; there’s no hymnal.” John has indulged his kids
but says, “I have some reserva- tions. In her sixth-grade year, my daughter came home with a printed ticket, ‘My City youth, come Friday.’ She was excited
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