Unhurried Opportunities for Our Unhurried Era
We’re committed to coming alongside you in this season to help cultivate an unhurried era, living an ordinary life with ease, gratitude, appreciation, peace, and prayer.
Introducing Operation Clear the Lists
Introducing Operation Clear the Lists! We're excited to support North Carolina teachers during back-to-school season. Help us reduce their financial strain and show them some love!
Three Ways to Go Deeper in Lent
To guide us in this work, we’re introducing a series called Seeking: Honest Questions for Deeper Faith. It’s from the brilliant creatives at A Sanctified Art, and each week centers on a different honest question rooted in scripture that has the power and potential to crack us open, change our direction, move us closer to the heart of God, and deepen our faith.
The Story of Our Table: From Generation to Generation
A table found in a consignment shop in Richmond was inscribed with the name "S. M. Goodman" and dates of birth and death. Here’s how it found its way to us.
The Great Christmas Diaper Dump is Back
The Great Christmas Diaper Dump is back for another year. Last year, we donated 15,000 diapers. How many can you help donate this year?
Introducing TLC Hangs
Introducing TLC Hangs. These are periodic super-informal Sabbath-filled one-off events that create space to just, well... hang with each other. No agenda. No curriculum. Just hanging with your TLC homies.
UMCOR Cleaning Kits
We’re assembling UMCOR Cleaning Kits after worship on November 13 — and we need your help!
Local Tables are back!
Local Table sign-ups are now live. Get all the details and sign up here.
Stuck to the Center
So this week, I went back to see my friend, Martha, who had made the original bowl, to see if she had anything new that might replace it. When I walked in, there was only one bowl in her entire collection for sale — and it was perfect.
Welcome Home
I offer this because I wonder if I’m not the only one who needs to hear those words. Between the diaspora and isolation of the pandemic and the breakneck fit-everything-in pace of summer, you may have similar feelings — of disconnection and hesitancy and wondering if you still belong. Prolonged separation can reinforce those false narrates, can’t it? I can be my own worst enemy in that way.
Racial Equity Fundamentals Workshop
We’re hosting a Racial Equity Fundamentals workshop, facilitated by CORE, on September 11 and 25, 2022.