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!
The gospel is not that every choice leads where we hoped. The gospel is that God's provision is larger than our choices.
Again and again, when the future appears to hang by a thread, God is already there. Abraham sees only one son or the other. God sees a future for both. Abraham sees scarcity. God sees abundance. Abraham sees an impossible choice. God sees a promise still unfolding.
And that future does not rest in our hands. It rests in God's hands.
"The disciples are not sent out to create the kingdom. They are sent out to join the kingdom that God is already bringing near. One pair of hands can only reach so far. But a thousand hands filled with the compassion of Christ can change a community."
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.”
