Hospitality comes first.

The agape love of God is consistently powerful and relentlessly good. We aspire to embody this every time we meet with our guests. We are passionate about helping people receive God's unconditional love in a setting that is welcoming and safe for them to be themselves. "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.” 1 Peter 4:8-9

When we operate in love, differences don’t seem off-putting, challenges don’t seem so daunting, and even a multitude of offenses won’t offend us. This is why everything we do begins and ends with hospitality, because it creates an environment of safety and belonging that promotes agape love. The only way to consistently practice agape love is to make our guests and volunteers feel at home in our presence, letting our time and space be their time and space. We feel that it must begin with this in order for people to experience the love of God and for it to reach us exactly where we’re at, not who we want to be or who we’re supposed to be. God loves us while we are still sinners (Romans 5:8), otherwise He could never really love us at all.

This inviting space is an opportunity to love more deeply and consistently over time, for real relationships to form. As we begin to share and walk closer with individuals, we find that people crave God’s agape love and want to journey with people who try to express it in their lives. In those deeper relationships we see hearts grow in hope, faith and love. We endeavor to trust and let the Spirit guide these relationships in ways God sees fit. For some individuals it means finding employment or housing, or just getting an ID. For some it means reconciling with estranged family. And still with others it means finding a new community, a new family with us whenever we share a meal, fellowship and worship together.