Church happens throughout the week here.
It happens on a Monday night when fifty or so students walk over from the park to share a hot meal, some spontaneous laughs and a piercing story about God-in-flesh walking this earth.
Church happens on Tuesday when high school students weed and water UrbanLife Farms, bringing life to a barren city lot and empowerment to their own experience.
It happens Wednesday, as young adults mentor and love middle school students, right after 5-dollar pizza and immediately preceding sock dodge ball.
Church happens Thursday night where, once UrbanLife high school students, now Orange Avenue Church college-aged leaders, gather in a local condo to study scripture.
It happens Friday too, when we sabbath purposefully and worship as families.
Church even breaks out on Saturdays, from time to time.
On Sunday we gather to proclaim what God has done during that week, to listen for His voice, and to beg God for strength to face another week.
We've been functioning as a church for a long time now. This fall, we will be formally chartered as a congregation. In anticipation, a camera crew came by to capture a portion of God's movement in our neighborhood. Enjoy this succinct and up-close look at Orange Avenue Church, one of our denomination's 1001 New Worshiping Communities.
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