A Thriving Community

The Garden has grown from an idea into a thriving community outreach with a team of 12 part-time event hosts and one Private Rentals Booking Manager. The Garden team works very hard every single week to love strangers and friends alike in the HC' '05 community through a variety of workshops and events. The staff at The Garden are young creatives (mostly 18-20 years old). We mentor them to be leaders and to remember 1 Timothy 4:12, "Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity."

Please pray for The Garden staff as we continue to mentor our amazing young team while they daily learn how to make a Christ-like difference in others' lives through the catalysts of art and community. To God be the glory! ”Neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.” (1 Corinthians 3:7)

As part of our partnership with Just Neighbors, we grow vegetables on the south side of The Garden in our “urban garden” for the local homeless residents. Be sure to join us at our "Night Markets" on the third Wednesday of each month May through September featuring food, music and art. We would love to see you there!

~ Lesa Van Meter, The Garden Director

(To learn more about this ministry, see Pastor Ahlersmeyer’s article from the May 2023 Partners Newsletter.)