Epic Church In Manayunk Celebrates Three Years Of Keeping Services Casual

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A church with a relaxed environment where members meet inside a Manayunk movie theater is celebrating its third anniversary today.

Epic Church doesn't have a building of its own--no grand stained glass windows and no wooden pews. Instead, Sunday services at 9 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. are held inside a rented space, the United Artists Theater on Main Street in Manayunk.

"Well for us, the movie screen is like modern-day stained glass, and we are able to use video to help convey God's message," explains Pastor Kent Jacobs, who frequently wears flip flops, t-shirts and jeans to lead services.

"We just want a place where people who are far from God discover that they don't have to be."

Jacobs says humor is often incorporated, too.

"You can have fun in church. In fact, the Bible says that laughter does good, like a medicine. We need that, you know, for church to be a place where our hearts are open to what god has to say to us, where we do have a good time but we leave challenged and encouraged to be who God created us to be."

Jacobs says the non-denominational church started with seven members and now has about 450.

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Reported by John McDevitt, KYW Newsradio