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We are Beloved Community, moved by the Spirit to follow the life, love, & justice of Jesus.

Our church family is composed of individuals from a variety of backgrounds and intersections, including diverse ethnicities, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, church traditions, socioeconomic statuses, intergenerational experiences, and differently abled persons. We are a vibrant group of artists, poets, creatives, musicians, ministers, theologians, and therapists who are helping us become a healed and whole beloved community. Together, we are reimagining a church centered on the margins. Together we are following a more expansive and inclusive faith anchored in the life, love, and justice of Jesus.


We never planned on naming our church “The Church We Hope For.” It originally served as a temporary placeholder for our social media handle while we discerned who we were going to be. However, as we were moved by the Spirit, we began to embrace this name as a community. This identity has transformed into an unintentional invitation to always remain open to the Spirit's ongoing work—constantly expanding and stretching our imaginations. So we confess that we are The Church We Hope For, and we acknowledge that we are also always becoming The Church We Hope For. We humbly aspire to continually grow and become a credible witness to the life, love, and justice of Jesus. Our aim is not to be first, but to be faithful as we follow our brown Palestinian rabbi, Jesus, along the Way.

Our Values

Our values are pillars that inform the posture and practice of our mission statement.


Radical Love

We affirm the belovedness of all people. This is rooted in Jesus’ cross-shaped life to radically and subversively love all people (even our enemies).


Centering the Margins

We believe the margins are our middle. This intentional practice allows us to pay attention to people and voices that have historically been sidelined or silenced.


Peaceful Resistance

We believe in peaceful resistance. This is an active posture and practice that comes from Dr. King’s imagination of how we confront injustice and oppression in being and becoming a beloved community.


Sacred Solidarity

We believe in sacred solidarity. Like Jesus, we incarnationally place ourselves with and among those being harmed by injustice, hostility, violence, racism, bigotry, homophobia, war, and oppression in the church and outside the church in the community or the world.


Empowering Women

We intentionally create space for women to fully lead in any and every area. We actively use our pulpit to invite female voices (18 women and counting).


Reimagining Worship

We affirm the myriad ways the Holy Spirit works through cultures, practices, and traditions and do not seek to limit the ways we can express our worship. In this way, we allow our liturgies to reflect who we are on multiple levels (gender, sexual identity, culture, language, food, art, poetry, communion).


Liberating our Stories

We seek to be a safe place for holistic healing where doubt, unlearning, relearning, rest, deconstruction, and reconstruction are welcome and normal integration between who we are and who we are becoming.


Becoming Familia

We believe all our values will help us grow towards a familial community in our belovedness. We will become a credible witness of all that we hope to be and continually become.

Our Beliefs

We welcome everyone to join us in this sacred journey of faith—a beautiful mystery of how we can both know and be known by God. Together, let us immerse ourselves deeper into the life, love and justice of Jesus, the living word of God.

  • God

    God has revealed God’s own self to be the living and true God, perfect in love and righteous in all God’s ways, one in essence, existing eternally in the three persons of the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God, who discloses God’s own self to humankind through God’s creation, has savingly spoken in the words and events of redemptive history. This history is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the incarnate Word, who is made known to us by the Holy Spirit in sacred Scripture.

  • Scripture

    Scripture is an essential part and trustworthy record of this divine self-disclosure. All the books of the Old and New Testaments, given by divine inspiration, are the authoritative, written word of God, an infallible rule of faith and practice. They are to be interpreted according to their context and purpose and in reverent obedience to the Lord who speaks through them in living power.

  • Creation

    God, by God’s own word and for God’s own glory, freely created the world out of nothing. God made man and woman in God’s own image, equal before God and alongside each other, as the crown of creation, that they might have fellowship with God. Tempted by Satan, they rebelled against God. Breaking fellowship from their Maker, they became subject to divine judgement, apart from grace, and in need to be reconciled back to God.

  • Jesus

    Jesus Christ is the only mediator between God and humankind, God’s eternal son, who was fully human and fully divine, and who, being conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, fully shared and fulfilled our humanity in a life of perfect obedience. By his death in our stead, he revealed the divine love and upheld divine justice, removing our guilt and reconciling us to God. Having redeemed us from sin, the third day he rose bodily from the grave, victorious over death and the powers of darkness. He ascended into heaven where, at God’s right hand, he intercedes for his people and rules as Lord over all.

  • Holy Spirit

    The Holy Spirit indwells all believers, renews our hearts, persuading us to repent of our sins and confess Jesus as Lord, dispenses spiritual gifts to edify and empower the church as the body of Christ. By the same Spirit we are led to trust in divine mercy, whereby we are forgiven all our sins, justified by faith alone through the merit of Christ our Savior, and granted the free gift of eternal life.

  • The Church

    God, by God’s Word and Spirit, creates the one holy catholic and apostolic Church, calling humanity into the fellowship of Christ’s Body. By the same Word and Spirit, God guides and preserves for eternity that new, redeemed humanity, which, being formed in every culture, is spiritually one with the people of God in all ages. Through God’s son, Jesus came to reconcile us not only unto God, but with each other, abolishing the enmity of the flesh among humans and creating one new humanity across all ethno-racial and gender lines that divide.


    The Church is summoned by Christ to be God’s beloved multi-ethnic community, to offer holy worship to God and to serve God by preaching the gospel and making disciples of all nations, by tending the flock through the ministry of the word and sacraments and through daily pastoral care, by striving for justice and the ministry of reconciliation, and by dispensing mercy through relieving human distress and need.

  • The Age to Come

    God’s redemptive purpose will be consummated by the return of Christ to raise the dead, to judge all people according to the deeds done in the body, and to establish God’s glorious kingdom. Those who have rejected God shall be separated from God’s presence, but the righteous, in glorious bodies, shall live and reign with God forever. Then shall the eager expectation of the creation be fulfilled and the whole earth shall proclaim the glory of God who makes all things new.