Nobody will make you stand up, introduce yourself, or fill anything out. You can sit in the back, leave when you need to, and wear whatever you already have on.
We gather for about two hours: singing, prayer, Scripture taught plainly, communion, and space to respond. Then we eat together — that part is not extra. The table is where most of us actually got known.
We're small. That means you'll be noticed, but you won't be hunted. Here's exactly what to expect →
Warm before polished. Songs you can actually sing, teaching that lands by Monday morning, and people who will pray with you if you want it.
Every week, a meal after the gathering. Bring nothing. Stay as long as you like. This is the easiest door into this family.
Not babysitting while the adults do ministry. Two adults in the room always, clear check-in and pickup, allergies written down.
A gift stays transparent. Money shows us God provides. Marriage shows us God loves. Work shows us God gives purpose. Friends show us God welcomes. You can see through it to Him.
The same gift goes opaque. It stops pointing and starts replacing — carrying your identity, your security, your worth. Still good in itself. Working wrongly in the heart.
What am I really asking this thing to give me? What am I afraid to lose? We call it the thing behind the thing, and most of our discipleship happens there.
You should know what we are not building before you decide to come.
We meet in homes to take the week's teaching further — where it found you, what's underneath it, and what obedience looks like before next Thursday. Then we pray for each other by name.
Not a second sermon. Not forced vulnerability. A room where you can be honest and still be held.
Giving here is not a transaction and not a pressure. It's a practice that keeps saying the true thing: God provides. Every dollar goes to people, kids, the table, and the work of this church in this city.
Participating with Him in ordinary obedience, and loving Him together in a way that makes His kingdom visible. This is not a brochure. It's a plumb line — and we'd rather you read it before you join us.
God is the source before we are the workers. Grace is not a slogan. He gives Himself, provides, welcomes, loves. We respond because we have received.
We join what He is doing rather than asking Him to bless what we built in our own strength. Insight becomes obedience: we pray, apologize, give, invite, serve, rest, forgive.
Formation happens in a body, not in isolated spiritual consumers. Not merely greeted, but known. Not merely inspired, but formed.
Many people aren't rejecting God outright. They just can't see Him in the actual materials of their lives, so they treat His gifts as threats or as replacements.
This frees you from two errors: fearfully refusing good gifts, and blindly clinging to them. Receive with gratitude. Surrender with trust.
Behavior change alone can make a person more disciplined without making them more free. So we go looking for the root.
These are the people you can call, eat with, and be honest with. They carry the vision by staying close to the actual condition of the church.
Michael preaches most Sundays and spends most of his week in conversations that never make it into a sermon. He is after the thing behind the thing — the fear, the hunger, the false provider underneath the behavior — and he'd rather ask you a hard question kindly than leave you with religious fog.
Imago.pope@gmail.comLexa notices the person before the task. She carries the warmth of this house — the welcome, the table, the remembering of names — and she is usually the reason a nervous first-time guest ends up staying for dinner and coming back.
Imago.pope@gmail.comDaniel helps ordinary faithfulness actually happen — DGroups that go somewhere, volunteers who know what they're doing, prayer that names real things. Steady, unhurried, and hard to impress with hype.
Maggie cares for families and children as full members of this church, not an interruption to it. If you're a parent walking in for the first time, she's the one who will tell you exactly how Sunday works for your kid.
No agenda, no membership required. Call, text, or email — a real person answers.
Knowing the shape of the afternoon is most of what makes a first visit easy. So, plainly:
Park out front. Someone will say hello and show you where things are, including the kids room. That's it — no clipboard, no name tag.
A handful of songs. Sing, sit, or just listen. Nothing is asked of you.
Around 35–40 minutes. Clear enough for a tired parent, deep enough if you're hungry, and specific enough to do something with on Monday.
Space to pray, be prayed for, or sit quietly. Take communion if you want to; nobody counts.
Stay. Really. Bring nothing. Leave whenever you need to.
Two adults in the room whenever possible. Check-in and pickup are clear. We write down allergies and we ask before helping with the bathroom.
Kids are welcome to stay in the room with you too. Noise doesn't bother us.
Whatever you have on. Some of us come from work. Nobody is going to look at your shoes.
Text 318-364-9981 before you come and one of us will meet you at the door so you don't have to walk in cold.
Someone will reach out within a day or two — a real person, not an automated sequence. If you'd rather just show up unannounced, that's completely fine too.
We'll watch for you and save you a seat at dinner.
It's a people sharing life around Jesus. Here's how that actually happens week to week — and how to step in without having to become a different kind of person first.
Worship, Scripture, communion, prayer, and dinner after. The hearth where the whole family shows up.
In homes. We take Sunday's teaching further, name what's underneath it, pray specifically, and choose one obedience for the week.
Ask about joining oneKids, worship, hospitality, setup, meals. You'll get a clear role, a real schedule, and a person to call — never a guilt trip.
Tell us you're inThree rooms, members only: the whole church, your DGroup, and announcements from the pastors. Built so nothing important lives only in a group text.
Money is one of the clearest windows we have. When it stays a window, it reveals God as Provider. When it becomes a wall, it starts carrying our security and our identity. Generosity is the practice that keeps the glass clean.
So: no guilt, no pressure, no thermometer graphics. If you're new here, please don't give yet — just come eat with us.
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