Church Name: Resurrection Presbyterian
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Head Pastor: Vito Aiuto
Summary: Resurrection Presbyterian is a noteworthy
hipster church for a number of reasons. Launched in 2004 as a plant of
the Redeemer planting network, Resurrection is situated smack dab in
the heart of worldwide hipster culture: Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Not
only that, but the church is pastored by Vito Aiuto, a full-blooded
Christian hipster who is a reverend by day and indie musician by night.
He and his wife Monique moonlight as The Welcome Wagon and released
their Sufjan Stevens-produced debut album on Asthmatic Kitty in late
2008. The church itself bears many of the typical marks of a vibrant
hipster Christian community: liturgy, pews, communion out of a common
cup (with real port!), and a strongly infused mission-mindedness that
includes local social justice work, HIV/AIDS ministry in Africa, and a
leadership development/church-planting initiative known as the Brooklyn
Church Project. I attended Resurrection on a steamy, stormy May evening
in 2009.
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