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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's not a verb, any more than "we are having dinner here" makes "dinner" a verb; it's a noun.
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Harry T is quite correct here; "church" and "dinner" in these contexts are nouns, in US or British English. I've never heard 'church' used as a verb, though.
In the US there is a habit of making nouns into verbs, for example to 'summit' a mountain. There's nothing incorrect about it, it's just a new usage. Yet it sounds clumsy if you're not used to it. It happens in British English too, but I can't think of examples now.