We Are WCF

During our Sunday worship services at WCF, you’ll often hear the service leader mention four word pairings: Authentic community, Vibrant worship, personal transformation and social impact. Now they may be stated with slight nuances or in different orders, but these word pairings have developed over the life of WCF to articulate what we hope to nurture as a faith community of Jesus followers. 

As we start things up again this fall, the elders thought it would be helpful to remind ourselves of why we exist as a faith community and how we hope to live out our values.  Over the next few weeks (interrupted once by our Annual Church Retreat, whose registration deadline is today!), we’ll be talking through each of the four statements in a sermon series called "We are WCF." How much more meaningful might these statements be as we begin to gather once again with children’s nurture programs starting up and small groups kicking off.

Granted that the pandemic has made in-person community more challenging, we hope to encourage as much in-person gathering as is safely possible. Because it’s in the presence of others (often with those very different from us) that we come to grow, appreciate and express our faith most fully. We need to rebuild those muscles again as a faith community to remind ourselves of how God has been revealed to the world in the fleshly presence of God’s son, Jesus, not merely through a personal individual spiritual encounter. There are two particular passages that I have been meditating upon in recent weeks that will inform this series: Acts 2:42-47 and John 13. I invite you to read and reflect upon them through the course of the series as well, as you are able.

Join us over the next few weeks as we remind ourselves that We are WCF. 

Serving Jesus gratefully together with you,

Pastor Andrew