We are simply people like you - people with dreams and burdens, people with pasts and futures, with stories of success and failures. As people we are all connected by our commonality and that is what we emphasize here, our unique bond as humans - we are all on a journey and our desire is to journey together. We are not perfect and don't claim to be - rather, we willingly acknowledge our broken-ness and in doing so, acknowledge our need for others to help us through our pain.

Church should be simple, it should be relevant to our lives and it should make a difference. This is what we believe and what we desire to live. Life is hard enough - church should not make it harder by loading up guilt upon us or giving us so many rules to live by we can't see straight - and we should actually be able to understand what the preacher is talking about when we come.

Most people don't like church or Christians - they get images of bigots, racists, sexists, and violent radicals (or ungroomed people on the corner wearing sandwich boards saying about "repent or die"). Yes, this is part of our history as the church but we are not proud of it. We believe there is a new generation of followers of Jesus that don't desire to put others down but rather live authentic lives that desire to help put the world back together again, rather than tearing it apart.

Jesus came to give us hope, not to take it away. We believe that love is what brings healing and we desire to do this - love. We aren't perfect and won't always do it well, but our desire is that we can love more than hate, that we can bring healing more than hurt, and that we can unite more than divide. We believe that the way of Jesus is the best way to live - that the teachings of Jesus can truly put the world back together again.

Tomorrow can be better than today...