Welcome! We're a small church doing BIG things with the help of God!
We believe that God loves, values and embraces each person as a beloved child. Therefore, we welcome people of every age, size, color, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, ability and challenge. We welcome people from all faith traditions, those with doubts, and those with no sense of faith at all. We also commit ourselves to the pursuit of environmental, economic, social and racial justice.
Our mission is to meet God, practice community, serve Christ and live generously!
“We thought Christmas was just passing through—one night, maybe two.
We thought God would drop by, weigh in, and move on.
But now we’re beginning to realize… God isn’t planning to leave.
John doesn’t say, ‘The Word became flesh and stopped by.’
He says, ‘The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.’
God pitched a tent.
Took up residence.
Moved into the ordinary rooms of our lives.
Which is disconcerting.
Because a God who visits can be admired from a distance.
But a God who moves in—
is close enough to hear the sigh that isn’t uttered,
close enough to touch the wound we’ve learned to live with.
And yet—here’s the mystery—
the nearness that disturbs us
is the same nearness that saves us.”
“A decree goes out. Not a conversation. Not a question. Not a community forum. A decree. A registry. A journey demanded. A law passed in an office far away from those it would affect.
No one asked if Mary was tired.
No one asked if Joseph was worried.
No one asked where they’d sleep… or what they’d eat… or who would be there when the baby came.
Empire never asks those questions.”
“Today, that’s where the Gospel takes us—
to an underground dungeon… stone walls… darkness.
Time moves different down here. You can’t mark the days by sunlight—only by footsteps… keys… a piece of bread shoved in. There is no horizon.”
“And John is waiting. And waiting is not neutral. Waiting presses on everything you thought you knew. Waiting messes with your prayers. It messes with your memory.”
“And questions surface—raw, unedited, honest:
‘God, are you really who I thought you were? …If the prophecies are being fulfilled… where is the promised justice?’”
“‘Are you… the one who is to come, or should we wait… for another?’”
“And Jesus answers, ‘Look… The answer is right in front of you… not in a lightning bolt… but in mercy you can touch… in ordinary places where God keeps choosing life.’”
