Watch and Engage

We’re having our Water Communion ritual in Sunday worship. We invite you to bring a small bit of water to the sanctuary with you. Some bring a bottle, others a few drops, some bring water they gathered from a special summer memory, others from the kitchen tap. It doesn’t matter how much or where from–all water is beautiful.

If you can’t collect your own water to bring (or if you forget yours on the counter at home), not to worry. We’ll have pitchers waiting here. We want you to be a part of this important time in our community, where wisdom and joy rush to greet us and show us the way to deeper love. See you there!

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As a new season begins, we gather to bless the people and the bags that carry our work, our worries, and our hopes. In worship we’ll lift our backpacks high, look to see the faces that travel with us, and receive tokens of courage and connection—this year, fossils, carried forward from oceans older than mountains. On the same air the dinosaurs breathed, our words, our songs, and silence ground us in the deepest truth we’ve ever known—you are not alone; we are holding it together. So shall it ever be.

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What if love grows stronger when you stop not-stopping?
What if caring for your community means showing up whole?
What if your body’s peace could power your purpose?

This July we’re turning church into a place to practice what our world demands: courage, rest, honesty, breath, boundaries, joy. We’re building spiritual skills for real life. This isn’t escape. It’s the makings of enlightenment.

Never learned how to rest with purpose? Already practicing? Need a second just to breathe while someone else minds the clock? You’re not alone. Here’s a place to pause. The pause is when we play. And play’s where the thought finds its power, and we dream about what’s right, and love so relentlessly revives every life that we forget to worry about what’s left. All that’s sure to last starts here.

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What if love grows stronger when you stop not-stopping?
What if caring for your community means showing up whole?
What if your body’s peace could power your purpose?

This July—13, 20, and 27—we’re turning church into a place to practice what our world demands: courage, rest, honesty, breath, boundaries, joy. We’re building spiritual skills for real life. This isn’t escape. It’s the makings of enlightenment.

Never learned how to rest with purpose? Already practicing? Need a second just to breathe while someone else minds the clock? You’re not alone. Here’s a place to pause. The pause is when we play. And play’s where the thought finds its power, and we dream about what’s right, and love so relentlessly revives every life that we forget to worry about what’s left. All that’s sure to last starts here.

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The Spirit moves through bodies that move. Love becomes real when we show up—together, on purpose, in public. That’s how transformation begins. That’s how faith lives in the world.

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