Amber and her family have been a part of The Parish Church for a little over a year and we’re so grateful to God for sending them. Check out some of Amber’s story of how God is moving in and through her and her family!

This coming Sunday, October 27, we’ll be scattering as MCs to host different Block Parties on the East and West sides of Petaluma. Join us for a great time of fellowship, food, and fun!

Christ has anointed us with his Spirit. He has set us apart for service to him and to one another. We represent to one another the address of God. We are priests who speak God’s Word and share Christ’s sacrifice.

“An essential part of our theological and missional task today is to tell [the narrative of the gospel] as clearly as possible, and to allow it to subvert other ways of telling the story of the world.” — N.T. Wright

Christian maturity comes when we learn to start responding to God out of love and responsibility and not merely desperation.

Why are we as a culture — ore even more peculiarly, the church — so obsessed with only portraying our “best side” to even those supposedly closest to us?

This coming Sunday, September 29, we’ll be gathering as a church at Valley Vista Elementary School at 10 AM to help clean out their garden and get it ready for the school year.

“Perseverance is not the result of our determination, it is the result of God’s faithfulness. We survive in the way of faith not because we have extraordinary stamina but because God is righteous, because God sticks with us.”

The church must not only support and repair families but also find a way to become the family of God where everyone, married and single, childless or not, can flourish in love.