Tue 3 May 2005
We are a small church that meets in homes in the Seattle area. We currently have just over a dozen members, mostly in our late 20s. We don’t have an official denominational association, though we come originally from Church of Christ, Assemblies of God, Foursquare, and Catholic backgrounds.
We’re not supported financially by any denomination or other congregation, though some of us were blessed with aid from our old congregations with aid in first moving up to this area. We currently meet in the home of some of our members, though we don’t really consider ourselves to be a “house church.” It’s just what is most convenient and useful for us at the moment.
We consider most of what we do to be experimental and temporary, with the hope that some of what we do will fit in with what God is doing and will therefore last.
Some ways we characterize ourselves:
- More experimental than established
- More fluid than fixed
- More dialogue than monologue
- More community than performance
- More revolution than brand
Part of the difficulty in describing who we are stems from the fact that we don’t do normal things churches do, such as hold worship services.
Some things we do:
- Meet regularly for fellowship, communion, prayer, and studying scripture
- Hold regular film nights to discuss movies with significant spiritual themes
- Express hospitality and care for those in need on an ongoing basis
- Serve as resources for those in our various spheres of interaction who have crises or needs that arise
- Hike
- Write
- Read
- Knit
- Create music
Probably not what you were expecting, but that’s OK. We’d like this list to be longer, so if you have interests that you would like to explore in community with us, let us know.
Grace and peace.

May 28th, 2005 at 6:03 pm
I am an N.T.Wright fan and saw him at SPU recently. I am a student of rethinking the church and see storytelling, narrative theology, and the movies to share a good deal in common. I am seeking to help my small church family to find the edge of the envelope and together seek to push it outward with God’s blessing. I like a bunch of what I see on this sight in my few minutes hewre [researching wright was my plan].. You can see my blogs elsewhere [above]. I am glad to see that God is at work in places I have never seen… Grace and peace
Ron
August 31st, 2005 at 2:49 pm
I am a 20-something thinking about relocating to Seattle from Colorado next year (after a couple of months overseas), and will be looking for a little spiritual fellowship after some negative church experiences in the last couple years. I am intrigued by your idea of “low-overhead” church and love all the activities under your list of “some things we do.” It is exciting to see people looking at faith on a personal level, outside the trappings of “church.”
June 28th, 2007 at 6:16 am
[…] Quite awhile back my friend Justin Baeder — Harding graduate, Church of Christ kid, Seattle church planter, geeky technology dude with a love for WordPress, and all around cool, postmoderny kind of guy — wrote an article entitled Moving Beyond the Worship Service. It’s good stuff. I encourage you to read it over. Look at the sermon topics in a seeker-sensitive church, and you will find things such as “Prayer = tools for solving problems” and “How to have a great marriage.” Through sermons like these and uplifting worship music, the worship service promises everything we need to be successful Christians. If you want to go deeper, you can join a home Bible study or class, but that’s optional. Real church happens on the stage every Sunday. 0 Comments posted on “Moving beyond the worship service” Post a comment […]