Combined Worship Gathering with Third Way Church
This Sunday, Roots Covenant will be joined for worship by Third Way Church, a sibling congregation in the Midway neighborhood. They are a Mennonite congregation and Roots is a Pietist congregation, but we are both Jesus congregations! While we may have different traditions, we share the common faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 1.3). Pietists and Anabaptists not only share a common emphasis on the centrality of Jesus, but also share emphases on counter-cultural practices of peace, justice, and discipleship.…
Retreat – One Church, Many Gifts (Part Two)
We are writing a new chapter in Roots’ story, together. The “One Church, Many Gifts” Retreat offers us time and space to explore our gifts, passions, skills, and experience as a way of discerning our callings from God. As individuals and as a community we are called by God. This is the second part of a two-part retreat. The retreat will be from 9:00—Noon with Lunch and childcare provided. For more information, email: Osheta or Sarah. Register for Part Two…
Resilient, Part 2 – Worship Gathering
Join us for worship as we continue in our sermon series, called “Resilient: Following Jesus for Life”
Resilient – Worship Gathering
Jesus told his disciples frankly that in this world they would have troubles (Matthew 5.11; John 16.33) some of which are persecution, doubt, and hardship. But these challenges needn’t shipwreck our faith. When (not if) these things occur, we can have a faith that is resilient. Recent research has discovered that resiliency isn’t an internal attribute some people are born with and others aren’t; resiliency is something a person develops by being in community with others who are equipping them.…
MLK Day Worship Gathering at First Covenant
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Sunday, January 14th, we will join in worship with First Covenant Church, Hmong Baptist, La Viña (a Spanish-speaking Vineyard congregation), and several other congregations in remembrance and celebration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday, the 15th, is a…