By Ellis White, Senior Pastor There are seasons in the life of a church that invite us to pause and give thanks. Today is one of those moments. For the past 10 years, Cara Taylor has faithfully served Chapel Hill in countless ways. During that time, many of you have watched her not only lead […]
Category: Weekly Blog
Who’s In Your Neighborhood This Summer?
By Julie Hawkins, Pastor of Ministry The garage doors are open. The sprinklers are running next door. The mountain is out! This is summer in the Pacific Northwest, and for a few warm months, the walls between our lives come down just a little. We’re outside. Our neighbors are outside. Kids appear from houses you […]
250 Years of Freedom—and One Very Teary Brit
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor I must have been seven or eight years old, standing in a playground in England, talking with some friends about the United States. I don’t remember exactly what was said. But I remember the feeling—this quiet, almost inexplicable sense that one day I would live there. Thirty-something years later, I […]
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Something Is Happening Here
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor A mom—not a churchgoer herself—recently texted another parent and said something that stopped me in my tracks when I heard it. “I don’t know what happens at that student ministry, but it has completely changed my daughter’s life.” Her daughter had been invited to Easter last year by a friend. […]
The Man Who Changed Everything for Me
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor I was 22 years old when I met him at a conference in Oxford, England. He saw something in me I couldn’t see in myself. He invited me into his world, let me sit in the front row of his ministry, and spent the last 15 years shaping me—as a […]
Something New Starts This Sunday
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor There’s a moment in any season of waiting when you can feel the shift—when what you’ve been hoping for stops being around the corner and actually arrives. That moment is this Sunday. After more than a year of searching and praying for our worship ministry—and five months for our children’s […]
The Good Work of Marriage
By Katie Nelson, Director of Care Ministries Our wedding day was really sweet and incredibly fun. Though the skies were gray in Seattle, I was assured that the photographer would be able to capture the colors even more brilliantly. So don’t worry, Katie, I told myself. Worry might be a disposition of mine, but I […]
Thank You and Praise God
By Cara Taylor, Director of Outreach June is a time for celebrating! The sun returns, students reach milestones, and Chapel Hill looks back on a year of serving others. While the world presses on us to make these marks of our own performance and worth, the good news of Jesus makes them moments of gratitude […]
The Spiritual Discipline of Paying Attention
By Julie Hawkins, Pastor of Ministry This time of year has a way of scattering us. The school schedule feels like a sprint to the finish line. Summer plans begin filling the calendar. Sports, vacations, end-of-year events, and longer evenings slowly change the rhythm of life. Before we realize it, our attention becomes fragmented. And […]
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Refreshing Our Lobby & Coffee Areas
By Ellis White, Senior Pastor Over the years, one of the things we’ve come to recognize is how quickly people form an impression when they walk into a space. Long before a song is sung or a message is preached, something meaningful is already happening. In those first few minutes, people are quietly asking, “Do […]