Church is sanctuary, a place of welcome and refuge.

Church is community: healthy people, broken people, everyone needing forgiveness.  Grace!

Church is voice--shouting, singing, praying, whispering, laughing, challenging powers that be, comforting mourners, advocating so that the world's losers become the Loved.

Church is movement, the ever-changing dynamic that happens when the Spirit of the one who said "Love your neighbor; love your enemy," is working in us.  We can't stay still.  We must grow, provoke, change, live.

Church is us and you, needy and needed, ordinary people made extraordinary by encountering God.

General Conference- Update

GC2012: Delegate serves 11th term

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We are a people with a Grand View of God as giver of life and grace . . . a Grand View of the church as the gathered community of God's grateful ones . . . a Grand View of humanity as co-creators with God of a world of peace and justice.