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!
Jesus is not sitting with sinners because our sins are harmless. He is sitting there because we need the mercy and healing of God. We can make promises. We can explain ourselves. We can hide it. We can dress it up. We can promise to do better. But we can no more fix ourselves than the bleeding woman could. There are places in our hearts that need more than improvement. They need the healing mercy of God in Christ Jesus—our Great Physician. Because Jesus does not come only for Matthew. Jesus comes for every place in us that is sick and tired and ashamed and afraid. He comes for the part of us that has done wrong. He comes for the part of us that has been wronged. He comes for the part of us that wants mercy. He comes for the part of us that refuses mercy. He comes and sits at the table beside us. And that changes everything.”
“The Spirit takes people who think they have nothing to say and gives them a word. The Spirit takes people who have been silenced by fear, by pain, by shame, by grief, by disappointment, and gives them a voice.”
“When pressure rises… when uncertainty grows… when the future feels dangerous or unclear… every instinct in us screams: react. Move. Do something. There are moments when the hardest thing in the world is not action—but restraint. Not because nothing needs to be done—but because moving too quickly can make things worse.
Before the church speaks, it listens. Before it acts, it gathers. Before it moves, it waits. And waiting is hard when we’re feeling anxious… but waiting—and praying—is not inactivity. It is training. It is humility… and disciplined restraint.”
