GracePresbyterian Church
The congregation gathered on the rocks around the dressed cross on Easter morning

A congregation that was a church before it had a building.

Twelve acres, an Easter service on open ground, a cross set in the rock first.

Easter morning, at the cross.

From A Sense of Place: two longtime members at their window

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Filmed on the twelve acres by INCOLR. Choose any moment; the film opens there, and the room dims itself while it plays.

2015

Easter on twelve empty acres.

Before there were walls there was a congregation, a field on Britton Drive, and an Easter service held on open ground. The cross went into the rock first; everything since was built around it.

The cross on the rock against a dawn sky
First light on the same rock.

December 2020

The doors opened around it.

Five years after that Easter, the congregation walked into a sanctuary built on the same ground, past the same cross. We have photographed it in every light since.

The cross lit at night, draped for Lent, the rose window glowing behind
Dressed for the seasons.

Now

Covenant Partners, not an audience.

Grace belongs to ECO, a covenant order of evangelical Presbyterian churches. About a hundred and forty Covenant Partners, led by elders, serving from this ground to Kenya. Our beliefs are stated exactly, never summarized; ask and we will put the Essential Tenets in your hands. Covenant Partners manage giving and records in Realm.

A fused-glass Grace cross ornament hanging before the building
Made by our own hands.

One cross, photographed in every light since 2015.

Easter and ordinary days, this ground and the far ones. The archive keeps growing.

Real names, real inboxes.