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 problem is that when we examine our own hearts—we find God's good seed and the bad seed growing together—both are present.
Every one of us knows what it is to love generously one day... and act selfishly the next.
The field isn't just out there. The field is in here. Inside our hearts.
Sooner or later, every one of us finds ourselves in an "off-ramp moment"—a place where hope has run dry and we begin to wonder whether God has forgotten us. Isaiah reminds us that God's Word is never empty. Like rain soaking into thirsty ground, it quietly brings life where we see only barrenness. Even in exile, even in suffering, even when we cannot yet imagine a way forward, God is already accomplishing the future he has promised.
The Bible has a name for this: sin. It is not simply the things we do wrong, but the power within us that twists what is good. Sin is the power that turns freedom into selfishness. Sin is the power that turns love into possession, justice into vengeance, and neighbors into enemies.
If the problem were ignorance, we'd need better education. If the problem were bad laws, we'd need better legislation. If the problem were lack of discipline, we'd need more willpower. But if sin has taken hold of the human heart, then we need more than advice—we need redemption.
The congregation celebrated with cake and presented Dr. Pridgen with an engraved crystal plaque thanking her for her leadership.
