February 18th is a day on the Christian Calendar known as Ash Wednesday.
​This is the beginning of the 40 day Season of Lent. We will enter into this season as a church through a night of prayer, followed by a season of fasting. Come prepared to lay something down and pray with your family. The more we intentionally live out these rhythms with one another, the more beautiful and real the Christian story becomes. Please set aside this evening to join our prayer team, as they host a night of prayer for specific needs within our congregation, our city, and our world.
We get it, church is hard to make time for.
There are so many things competing for our attention. We are distracted, divided, and down right exhausted. On top of that, often times, our idea of "church" comes with various feelings and assumptions that have left many of us wounded and worried.
The Garden is full of people with stories like these.
Stories marked by brokenness, weariness, and doubt. But in every story, God has been at work, turning worry into worship and pain into purpose. His grace draws us out of fear and into faith, out of striving and into rest.
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In community we quit looking at the world through fears, and start looking at it through faith.
He has come to restore shalom…peace and wholeness, and he has come to do it through his broken body, the church. When we are willing to sacrifice our comforts to love others, we display the ultimate sacrifice God made for us in Christ.
Come and hear the Word of God and how it is good news for all who are far off.
Come with your questions. Come with your worries. Come with your wounds. We invite you and any you may know, to come and see just who this Jesus is and what he has done.
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“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”
Matthew 11:28-30 The Message
Why the name The Garden?
The Bible’s story begins and ends in a garden and its imagery is used throughout as the place where God’s divine provision paradoxically meets the labors of humanity. The garden is where mystery and knowledge work in unison. The place where training and preparation are necessary, but uncertainties and interruptions abound. Through it all, our efforts are no match for our faith, as our strength is no match for God’s sovereignty, and in that, the garden is where God reminds us that we plant and we water, but it is only him who transforms our work into fruitful growth.