On the first Sunday of June, we got to experience how David and Wendy Rice have understood God’s invitation and call on their lives to live simply, intentionally and creatively. Some of the themes they fleshed out for us in conversation were around ecology, food sources, cooking, farming, agrarian rhythms, educational toys and the complexity of navigating all of these things as a family on a low budget, in an urban center, while in grad-school. Talk about an adventure, and one they have embraced with high degrees of resolve and playfulness. You can read more about David’s thoughts on what it might mean for leaders in the church to take their cues from agrarian culture as opposed to industrial culture here. Also, there is a list of great and practical resources that have shaped and informed David and Wendy below…enjoy!

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The first Sunday in May, we invited Haley Clark and Abby Wong to share with us about their work with Firelight Project, a non-profit that currently provides for education and holistic support for 27 children from the Acholi tribe in Gulu, Uganda. To learn more or get involved head on over to their site! [Read more →]

Friday, 16 July 2010 at 17:00

Bay View State Park

RSVP: with heather@witsendchurch.org or on FB.

As a way of marking Ordinary Time this year (the long season after Pentecost leading up to Advent), we are taking the first Sunday of each month to hear the gospel as it comes to us through the stories that exist within our community. We’ve been calling them Dream Sundays and the format consists of an interview-style conversation with a person or couple from Wits’ End who are living into their unique calling.  The purpose is to create conversations on a community-wide level and on an interpersonal level about how we are responding to the invitation of God to participate in his Kingdom. There is an opportunity in that to affirm, bless, bear and celebrate these particular vocations that are growing in our midst. And in that, I believe, we are each compelled to discern our own sense of call in a different light. So it is that we bless and are blessed. We know and are known.

I look forward to discovering more of who we are together.

Ascension from Wits’ End Church on Vimeo.

Sermon on Ps. 23- A dramatic reading by Joshua Longbrake.

When Jesus gathered with his disciples in the upper-room for the Last Supper, they were all in town for Passover. In Jewish tradition, Passover is centered around re-telling, remembering and being reminded of the story of the Exodus. It is a story of freedom, liberation that is fundamental to Jewish identity. Everything about being the people of YHWH came back to this narrative. If the people forgot this story, they lost their identity. That is why the priest (literally in Hebrew: “the remembering ones”) were those that continually invited the community to remember the Exodus- the action of God on their behalf that made their freedom a reality.

Jesus sat down with his disciples to remember this very thing, knowing that in a matter of days he would be the central figure in a new Exodus- one that would make real the freedom of all peoples through his death and resurrection. [Read more →]

Good Friday Service:

April 2 from 5:30-6:30pm at HLBC. Join us in a multi-sensory space in which to engage with the Passion Narrative of Christ.
Parking: Unless you have children or a specific need to be in the lot, please park in the neighborhood as HLBC will be needing the parking lot by 6:30 pm.

Holy Saturday (No Service):

This is the space between death and resurrection. For reading and reflection-The Story is in the Story.

Easter Sunrise Service:

Where: Carkeek Park (general map) Location at the Park (specific map)
We will meet on the beach for a brief service before heading back to HLBC for a breakfast feast (potluck style).
When: Sunday, April 4 at 6:50am followed by breakfast at HLBC from 7:30-9:30am.
Breakfast: Wits’ End will provide panckakes. Bring two items to share- Sides (bacon, sausage, fruit), Toppings (syrup, butter, yogurt), Beverage (juice, etc…).

“I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God… I believe that health is wholeness.”

- Wendell Berry in Health is Membership (1995).

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