We're an ordinary neighbourhood church — a bit loud, mostly kind, and genuinely glad you found us. Come as you are, coffee's on from half nine.
No dress code, no pressure, and nobody will single you out. Turn up a few minutes early and someone will show you where the coffee is.
Quieter and a little more traditional. Kids' groups run alongside for ages 3 to 11.
Fuller, louder, and busier. Same message, more music, coffee afterwards on the lawn.
Small groups around the neighbourhood. A meal, a conversation, and no obligation to speak.
Sanctuary started in 2004 with eleven people in a front room on Avenue 50. We're a few hundred now, spread across two Sunday gatherings and a dozen small groups.
We run a food pantry on Tuesdays, a homework club on Thursdays, and a Christmas toy drive that has quietly got out of hand. If you want to belong before you believe anything, that's fine here.
Everything below is open to everyone. You don't need to sign up, and you don't need to know anybody.
Saturday 9am on the lawn · Free, all welcome, bring a neighbour if you like
Drop-off all week · 400 backpacks for Aldama and Monte Vista Elementary
After the 11:30 gathering · Bring a dish, stay for the afternoon
Saturday 10am · An hour to find out where you'd fit, with zero commitment
Two hours a month is genuinely enough. Here's where people are helping right now.
Part three of our summer series through Luke. What it actually costs to notice the person in front of you — and why that's the whole point.
Browse the ArchiveWhatever you'd wear to a friend's house. You'll see suits and you'll see flip-flops in the same row, and nobody is keeping score.
Kids' groups run during both gatherings for ages 3 to 11, with a staffed crèche for under-3s. Check-in is by the main doors and takes about two minutes. Or keep them with you — noise genuinely doesn't bother us.
No. There's a box by the door and a link on this site, and that's the whole of it. Nothing is passed around and no one will approach you.
About seventy-five minutes, including music, a message of roughly half an hour, and time afterwards for coffee if you want it.
That's genuinely fine, and more common here than you'd think. Come and sit at the back, ask nothing, and leave when you like. Nobody will chase you.
Giving funds the pantry, the homework club, and the people who keep them running. Last year, eighty-two cents in every dollar went straight back out of the door.
One short email a week. What's on, who needs help, and nothing else.
