by Elevation | Oct 29, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Romans, Part VII: Our Sacred Sigh.
We’re coming to the end of our journey through Romans, and we’re not offering easy answers or skipping ahead to a happy ending. In a world of political polarization, climate anxiety, and systemic injustice, we often feel a sigh too deep for words—a feeling the first followers of Jesus in the Roman Empire knew all too well.
This week, we courageously sit in the sacred space of Lament.
We’ll discover that lament isn’t the end of the work—it’s the essential catalyst for true peacemaking and the birth pangs of a new creation.
by Elevation | Oct 22, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Romans, Part VI.
The book of Romans is a letter given to a community searching for peace in the midst of a world caught in the grip of violence, hatred and division. This week we will be asking questions about how this first century church in Rome wrestled with their identity in their social and political environment , perhaps in similar ways that we do today. Together we can will explore how Romans emphasizes the same subversive, peace-loving resistance taught and demonstrated by Jesus.
by Elevation | Oct 13, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Romans, Part V: The Kin-dom of Subversive Love: Where Our Shared Belonging is Our Power.
What if the point isn’t to endure pain, but to dismantle the things that cause it? This week, we’re revisiting Romans 5-8 through the lens of Subversive Love. This is an invitation to resist the world’s broken logic by embracing the counter-cultural way of Christ that leads to mutual liberation and collective care.
Discover a hope and purpose beyond the empire’s grip, in the now and not yet kin-dom of connection and flourishing, where our shared belonging is the source of our power and no one is outside the circle of love.
by Elevation | Oct 7, 2025 | Sunday Morning
This week is our Service and Learning for the month of October! Join us for a time of community and connection!
On Thursday evening from 5–6:30PM, we’ll gather with Community Ministry at 22 Willow to share a hot meal and build relationships.
On Sunday, October 12, you are welcome to register to join here at 22 Willow at 9am for cooking for A Better Tent City in the kitchen, or for our fall baking/preserving bonanza in the gym. We’ll have several stations set up in the gym, and are inviting the learning group to join the serving team there, as we spend some time learning and taking part in preserving apple sauce and baking.
Within the region, feel free to register to join the team to prepare and enjoy brunch at SHOW, or head on a five Senses Walk in Stanley Park Conservation Area beginning at 9:30am. If you are joining for the walk, no registration is required. Otherwise, you can register and find all the details on Church Center.
Please head over to Church Center to sign up.
by Elevation | Oct 1, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Romans, Part IV
This week we continue our exploration through the book of Romans. Continuing out of order, we will explore the first two chapters of Romans. We will ask how the ideas we have talked about so far in this series can inform these earlier chapters. We hope to look at this passage with compassion towards those it has been used to harm over the years, as we search for the message given to this small community so long ago, and what it might mean for us today.
