Worship services
Our Welcome Statement
Every Sunday morning, we open our worship service with this welcome statement:
We come from many different paths to gather here, for wide is God’s welcome and you are welcome here:
- If you are young or old, you are welcome
- If you have brown skin, black skin, white skin, or any other skin, you are welcome
- If you are married or single, you are welcome
- If you are sick or well, you are welcome
- If you are straight, gay, lesbian, or bisexual, you are welcome
- If you are male, female, trans, intersex, or nonbinary, you are welcome
- If you are an immigrant, you are welcome
- If you are a refugee, like Jesus was, you are welcome
- If you cannot hear or see, you are welcome
- If you are fully-abled, disabled, or a person of differing abilities, you are welcome
- If you are happy or sad, you are welcome
- If you are rich or poor, powerful or weak, you are welcome
- If you believe in God some of the time or none of the time or all of the time, you are welcome here…
(Adapted from Shaping Sanctuary)
“Worship provides Christians with an opportunity to leave behind—for momentary and fragile periods—the structures of inequality and violence that pervade our lives and to imagine—even more, to experience—an alternative mode of being, a place and time where justice and peace are known—a foretaste of the reign of God . . . Political organization, action, and protest will always be necessary if we desire to reform society, but we must pursue ritual action as well—where in an environment of beauty and abundance, in gathering with neighbors and strangers, in the encounter of the Holy, we know a joy that makes us dissatisfied with anything less in our every day lives.” -Scott Haldmann