worship

Wednesdays at 7:00pm

Join us Wednesday nights for a joyful, exciting time worshiping God together in community. We sing a variety of genres of music. We will pray together and hear a message. Some weeks we include “sacred witnessing” where anyone in the congregation is invited to share a response to a guiding question. Other weeks we might turn to a neighbor and discuss the sermon. Other weeks we will share in Holy Communion. Every week expect a high-energy, Bible-based worship that is rooted in Jesus, justice, and joy, and centers the voices and experiences of LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and young people. Kids stay in the sanctuary with their families. There is a sensory room across the hall with sanctuary sound in it, if you need to step out of the main space. We provide coloring sheets for all ages :) We’d love to see you there.

Current Series

You’ve seen Jen Bloomer’s art around Roots. Almost all of our coloring pages come from her work. She has an incredible visual art series called “We Gather” that we are taking inspiration from this new year. Each image is a look at powerful ways community happens.

Jen shares this about her series:

As othering and dehumanizing become increasingly widespread- more than ever we must turn towards the power of connection and community to create spaces of belonging.

This series is a series about gathering- in joy, in heart break, in hope, in wonder, in anger, in awe. Each piece…depicts different bird's eye scenes of community- reminders of the magic that happens when we show up with and for each other.

My hope is that these pieces will inspire people to turn to their existing communities and build new ones. My hope that these images cultivate a deeper sense of care and belonging. I create them as a reminder of the world we can build and re-build together.

Here at Roots, we’ve chosen six of these images to welcome us into the new year:

  • We Plunge (Lora Andrews) 1/7

  • We Listen (Alexandria Williams) 1/14

  • We Build (Carter Ellis) 1/21

  • We Dance (Nate Jones) 1/28

  • We Nourish (Carter & Cristina) 2/4

  • We Celebrate (Carter) 2/11

As you can see, our worship leaders/preachers each week will introduce some familiar faces in new ways, and that’s what community is all about.