You might want to know this about GraceMark Church before you read any further. We believe God’s Church is not about a building or events or numbers or a style or a leader.

We believe the Church is simply people. GraceMark is nothing more than ordinary people who are experiencing God’s amazing grace together. We are everyday people who are wrestling with trusting God enough to enter the journey of knowing Him intimately.

We are just like you. We have all failed, sometimes badly, sometimes yesterday We have all been hurt, sometimes horribly. We have found ourselves wondering if anything is REAL or true or good. We want to change, but we are afraid to change. We want to follow God, but we struggle with giving up control. We want to know and decide exactly where we are going, instead of living the mystery of following God day by day. We often find it hard to trust and to risk and to believe.

There are no professional Christians among us.  We are all little children, seeking to know and follow our heavenly Father.  We are all sheep, intensely in need of begin loved and nurtured by Jesus Christ, the Great Shepherd.  Some days we know and embrace our need for Him, and some days we forget and run off and do our own thing - as children are prone to do.

Yet, in spite of our wrestling with and running from Him, God has placed in us a passion and a  hunger for what is REAL and for what is Life.  Here is what we are discovering in our hunger and quest for REAL life.

Religion is not Life. Church is not Life.  More stuff and better circumstances are not Life. Seven steps to better behavior or improved performance are not Life. Emotional experiences are not Life. More information about the Bible is not Life. Even knowing about God is not Life.

Jesus Christ is Life!

He is the Living Word. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life and His temple is His people. He is ultimate REALity, and He has invited us to intimately and eternally know and experience His Life. Jesus invites the broken, ordinary, simple people like us to experience His life. He invites the needy, the poor in spirit, the confused, and those who think they already have it all together. He is the only One who can bring rest and healing to our souls, even as we live in the midst of a world that is presently suffocating in the pain and loneliness of sin.  He is the only one who can equip us to make a difference in that same, hurting world!

So, as the group that is known as GraceMark Church, we want to experience His Life together – to share life - the very thing we were created to do. We desire to do that as we learn to walk in harmony with God's Holy Spirit within us. By the way, sharing life together is messy and risky and beautiful, just like the Bible describes. How could anything REAL be otherwise while we live in this broken world?

So now you know a little about us. If God is placing a similar hunger for Life in you, a hunger for what is REAL, then we look forward to meeting you and hearing your story.