Mission statement:

We believe that we exist to share a sanctuary of love, warmth and laughter for all people. We recognize that God loves all of creation, including most definitely this growing community. We praise God for the ways in which the Spirit is moving within our midst.

In our worship:

We are an inclusive community, a family of faith, which through prayer, song, the sacraments and liturgy seeks to feel closer to God, to praise God, to give thanks to God, and to seek forgiveness from God in order to grow in discipleship.

In our Care Circles:

We seek to develop a community of people with a mature Christian faith; meaning a faith which leads us to care for others, that opens our hearts to service, an evolving faith that is the product of critical thinking and questioning. Our Care Circles are for all ages and are conducted in places inside the church and out.

In our Missions

We seek to share the excitement of our Christian faith without judging others. In our missions, we seek to take our faith and beliefs from the inside out, and know that our missions require that we must also bring the outside in. We take Christ's admonition-to go forth and share the good news-as our own, which we strive to do in word and deed both locally and globally
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 6:49 AM

Sacred Readings:

Acts 17:22-31

Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.
“Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does ot live in temples built by human hands. And this God is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because this God gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
“From one man God made every nation of mortals, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and God determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
“God did this so that people would seek God and perhaps reach out for God and find God, though God is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your poets have said, ‘We are God’s offspring.’
“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that divine being is like gold or silver or stone – an image made by man’s design and skill.
“In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now God commands all people everywhere to repent. For God has set a day when God will judge the world with justice by the one he has appointed. God has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

John 14:15-21

“If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever – the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, that one is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love that one and show myself to him.”