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What does it mean to be a multicultural church in the context of COVID-19?

Leave a Comment / grace, hospitality, multicultural church, sacrifice / By Ken Wytsma

Village Church is a multicultural community in Christ. Ethnically, we are one of the most diverse churches in Oregon, but our commitment to cultural diversity also extends across generations, from citizens to immigrants to refugees, and across multiple languages. We are not just multiethnic, but multicultural. This commitment is not something accidental or without purpose, …

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Forgiveness and Reconciliation

Leave a Comment / forgiveness, grace, guest speakers, messages / By Ken Wytsma

Gratitude

1 Comment / grace, journal, justice / By Ken Wytsma

I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude lately. I think gratitude – thankfulness, appreciation, value – has a very underrated foundational role in virtue and vice. Legalism, the kind of self-righteous Christianity that is all about control, guilt, power, pride and perfection, really has beneath it a sick and hollowed out sense of gratitude. Grace …

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Hitting on walls lately…

1 Comment / grace, unity / By Ken Wytsma

That’s what she said. I had heard loud thumping in the other room and called to my oldest daughter Mary Joy who simply said, “I’ve been hitting on walls lately. It’s fun!” I bit my lip and smiled. One person’s way of being at home is different than another’s. My daughter’s fun was my frustration. …

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