Echoes
Bellingham, WA
Echoes is an evolving community of faith that promotes wholeness, practices radical welcome, and fosters relationship with each other, our neighbors, and our natural home.
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Bellingham, WA
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First Public Event in 2013: Bellingham Pride
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Women + LGBTQ-Led
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Average Weekly Attendance
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Gender + Sexuality
REdefining Church
Echoes connects with Bellingham and the sacred in creative, relational ways. On a regular basis, they gather together to deepen our relationships with one another, with God, and with Bellingham. They also align with local non-profits to do volunteer and conservation work, offer worship that is rooted in the region and its concerns, and provide a variety of seasonal and special events.
One of their primary objectives is to [RE]define church. That is, they don't want a building to become their concern. Instead, the community of Bellingham is their concern. How can we be better citizens and promote the well-being of all life? How can this be a major emphasis of "church"? How can we get to know God, our bio-region, and each other, learn and follow the ways of Jesus, and positively contribute to our local community? These are the questions that drive much of what Echoes does.
Echoes offers a monthly rhythm of unique worship experiences:
Pub Church: meeting in one of the many awesome pubs in Bellingham for brew and conversation
Dinner Church: food, story sharing, prayer and song
Wild Church: connecting deeply with God and the Land
Creative Church: utilizing different creative mediums to explore spiritual themes
Service Church: join in support of various volunteer opportunities throughout the community
Mission
Over and over again in Scripture, Jesus went out of his way to spend time with those whom the religious and cultural society had considered outsiders. He offered dignity, compassion, inclusion, and justice. In doing so Jesus, as God in human form, revealed that God is concerned for and welcomes all persons.
The church has the responsibility to emulate this specific pattern of Jesus. As such, Echoes strives to be a safe, spiritual community for all persons, regardless of ethnicity, socioeconomic status, body shape, physical capabilities, emotional maturity, or education levels.
Because Echoes is open to all, they choose specifically to invite anyone who has felt rejected by church, including, but not limited to, LGBTQIA+ persons, as well as gender-queer and those with varying gender expressions or identities, to attend, participate, and lead.
Because Echoes seeks justice for all, thry commit to actively dismantle white supremacy as they work to become an anti-racism community. They acknowledge Bellingham’s sinful history of exclusion to people who were not white and choose specifically to welcome BIPOC individuals to attend, participate and lead.
With this value of inclusiveness, they hope to be a hospitable community, following in the ways of Jesus, making Bellingham a better (and more just) place to live for all.
