About St. Patrick's Community Church

Most people today associate Patrick with St. Patrick's Day, snakes, green beer, and a day that marks the beginning of spring with happiness. But Patrick was an independent, courageous, spiritual leader from the 5th century. He was one of the first to take the message of God's love to a barbarian people. He didn't let the barriers of language, and culture stop the flow of God's love. In fact he is credited with changing the culture of the entire Western Europe. He was a remarkable follower of Jesus!

You can read more about St. Patrick by clicking here. .

WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT ST. PAT'S

1. We are an independent Christian church. We are not Roman Catholic (in spite of our name) Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Southern Baptist, Mormon, Mennonite, Pagan, Zoroastrian, New Age, New Thought, Unitarian or anything else.  We are NOT any of the following; denominational, non-denominational, trans-denominational, or inter-denominational. Nor are we hiding our denominational affiliation behind a cool hip name. For better or for worse, we truly are an independent Christian people. 

2. We convey our values to our children. There are a lot of things wrong with religion, we admit it. But one of the good things is passing our values, practices and priorities to our kids. We want them to know the things that are important to us and what we believe will make them better people in our world, things like faith, wisdom, courage, compassion, community, independence and love are few of them. Our church is a safe place for children. 

3.  We have the beautiful music of Paul and Jana Aleman to inspire us.

4.  Our pastor presents a challenging and inspiring message every week. It is amazing how he takes an ancient passage written to ancient people thousands of years ago and brings modern ideas that apply to our lives today. Plus we celebrate a meaningful communion service every week. The combination of ancient rituals plus information for today is rich and speaks to heart.

5. Our goal is to live a life of love following Jesus. We think a lot of people could use a little more love in their lives; don't you? Our HELP ONE program is at the heart of what we do. Here is a great idea; everyone helps one person every day. We think we can have a significant impact in our community if we just HELP ONE.

6. We enjoy a casual environment were friends can meet, have a cup of coffee, and experience the feeling of community, pray, and hear a challenging message.

7. We are a "portable" church now and we dream of having our own home.  

8. We focus on the teachings of and about Jesus. There is a lot of weirdness in the world today done in the name of God, the Church or religion and we don't like it. But Jesus and his teaching are not weird. They are life-giving. You will not find us focusing on issues that divide people. We focus on the message of God's love. 

9. We want to be the best we can be with no excuses. We live in a virtual paradise compared to many third world countries, even during our difficult times. We are grateful and we feel compelled to make an impact in our world by being the best we can at what we do.

10. We are warm, personal, genuine, friendly people and we practice a practical, experiential and reasonable faith. We think you will feel God's love and presence and learn something too.

You are more than welcome to visit us! Please do.