Help ReconcilingWorks welcome the newest Reconciling in Christ (RIC) community: Immanuel Lutheran Church (Holden, MA).
Their welcome statement reads:
“Our mission at Immanuel is to Gather People, Nurture Faith, Grow in God’s Love, and Serve God’s World.
Whatever your gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, you are one of God’s children and you are welcome here. Whether you struggle with addiction to drugs, alcohol, or other substances, you are one of God’s children and you are welcome here. Whatever your physical ability, mental health, socioeconomic status, faith tradition, race, ethnicity, or country of origin, you are one of God’s children and you are welcome here. Whoever you are, we invite you to visit us and see who we are and who we can be together.
Through Christ we have a shared unity and purpose that transcends all boundaries of class or division and makes us one. ‘So we, who are many, are one body, and individually we are members one of another.’ (Romans 12:5)”
Learn more about Immanuel Lutheran Church at: www.immanuelholden.org