Messy Church Goes Wild

Messy Church Goes Wild

Messy Church Goes Wild is our expression of Wild Church or Forest Church. We meet in nature, read poems, poetry, and Bible stories, and wander in nature in order to encounter God. We finish our time with a picnic meal together and sharing stories.

G. K. Chesterton once wrote, Your religion is not the church you belong to, but the cosmos you live inside of. Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply. I call that kind of deep and calm seeing “contemplation.”

Wild Church, then, is not a congregation or an institutional body of any kind, but rather an  experimental way of engaging with the Creator through contemplation in the cosmos. It is a way of re-enchanting the ordinary created world around us through attention to the smallest things around us, trusting that loving the thingness of the thing in front of you is the beginning of loving all things, and then loving God as Godself.