Our faith is rooted in a story. The beautiful narrative of God’s work in the world. This story is found in the pages of the Bible.

God created the world. He created out of nothing, in love and wholeness (Hebrew has a great word for this: Shalom). God called the world “good”, but we chose to deny that goodness. So evil enters the story and infects our hearts and communities from the beginning – we rebel against God, treat our neighbors unjustly, harm God’s creation. But God’s love proved greater than this when he chose to love the world through the people of Israel. God rescued them from slavery in Egypt, nurtured them and made covenants with them – with Noah, Abraham, Moses, David. He called them to be a special people, to care for the things that God cares about: holiness, justice, aiding the poor and outcast.

God was faithful to all his promises. We were not. Yet God still sent his Son, Jesus, to us. Immanuel: God with us. God incarnate among his people Israel, among us all. His life, death and resurrection proved once and for all that God is eternally faithful to humanity. Jesus shows us how to be in relationship with God and makes that relationship possible by his death on a cross – where he bore the weight of our sins. But God not only came to us in the flesh. He not only came to die for us. He also triumphed over death that those who follow him might live in freedom. Freedom from fear, isolation and death – the results of our sin, our broken relationship with our Creator.

And that’s why it is all about Jesus. We seek to follow him and can do so because of God the Holy Spirit. God is love in community (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). God calls us to be love in community. This is what church is – a group of people living in praise and gratitude for God’s love and faithfulness shown in Jesus Christ. So we try to live as ordinary radicals and be a light to a dark world. In following Jesus we partner with God in his great drama of redeeming the world. This means that in our jobs, our homes, our communities, our finances, and our world we try to join in God’s work and be faithful to him. We don’t have it all figured out. But the goal isn’t to have it all together. It’s to recognize that even though we’re broken, God is with us. The best way to see what someone believes is to observe their actions. Better yet – walk side by side with them a while. Join us.

We also believe it’s important to be connected with other believers, other churches. That’s why we’re committed to the Presbyterian Church (USA). You can read more about the denomination’s beliefs at www.pcusa.org