God’s grace doesn’t come to us in expected packages or “acceptable” people. God comes to us in the lowly and despised. It is from them alone we learn grace.

This page contains the order of worship and an audio recording of the memorial service for Susan Caroline Weber.

The church is not here for us. Our purpose is to bring about healing in the world. The grace of God we have received will be enough: it will guide, sustain and empower us.

Pay attention to the quietest voices. God speaks in silence. People often reveal themselves most deeply beneath their words, not in them. Our hearts often speak to us in quiet murmurs we ignore.

The Holy Trinity is an image of God as community: three persons together in one Being. The intertwined loves of the Trinity assures us that God is also intertwined in our lives, and also calls us to awareness of our unity with others.

The Holy Spirit is one spirit, in all of us: we are all parts of one body. Like the music an orchestra plays, the beauty and power of our ministry is not our own, but from the spirit’s music in us, and, like members of an orchestra, from the harmony that comes from our working together as one.

The image of Jesus ascending to heaven is just wild enough to remind us we’ll never “figure him out.” He represents something cosmic, all-inclusive, powerful, and beyond our understanding. But still lovingly attentive to us.

Christian faith is not a set of beliefs. It’s letting God’s love flow through us fully. We love beyond “as we would have others do to us.” We love as Jesus has loved us.