A Taste of Heaven

Our Multi-Ethnic Worship Service

A few Sunday nights ago we gathered in the Sanctuary for an amazing night of worship. We joined up with our ethnic churches who share our church building – the Samoan, Mexican (Centro Cristiano), Chin, Karen, and Nepali-Bhutanese fellowship! It was a powerful evening to gather with people who wouldn’t typically worship together.  It was an amazing time to learn about these different churches – meet the pastors and hear how they got started, about their culture, and growth that is happening in their communities. 

This experience was a taste of heaven.

When I was on the Summer Mission trip to Mississippi a few summers back, I was talking to John “Grandpa”  Perkins, a Civil Rights leader in the South, about his dream to see the church more unified…experiences like this shared worship service are just one more step in the right direction. 

Grandpa Perkins and I share the same dream--a community of people able to worship together regardless of age, ethnicity, and life experience. With so many differences between all these groups (differences that often times separate us), we have the privelege to serve and love the same God!! My hope is that we embrace these experiences and we find more excuses in this new year to be together!

-Pastor Ruby

"Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us."  Col 3:10-11