No performance required.
Firsts.Today offers simple invitations into attention, courage, repair, relationship, and ordinary life.
Church Harvest · Springfield & Northern Virginia
Something is beginning
in Northern Virginia.
You may have grown up in church, walked away from it, or never been part of one. If you sense something is missing and want to explore what life with God and other people could look like, Church Harvest is a place to begin.
Right now: gathering people, listening, and exploring what might take shape.
An open invitation
You do not need to know what you believe before you come.
I am actively looking for people in the Northern Virginia area who are interested in exploring a different way of living out church together.
Some of us may come from congregations. Some may have left church years ago. Some may have no church experience at all. What matters is a willingness to be honest, curious, and open to the possibility that God may already be at work among us.
This is still at the exploration stage. There is not a finished congregation waiting for you to join. We begin with conversation, relationship, prayer, shared meals, Scripture, service, and attention to what God is doing here.
The work taking shape
Begin where you are.
Church Harvest is the work I am actively gathering around in Northern Virginia. Firsts and the rest of my ministry continue alongside it.
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Church Harvest
Explore a relational Christian community being formed through listening, conversation, shared life, and attention to God.
Explore the harvest → 02Firsts.Today
A free invitation to meet the life you already have in a way you have not before—through something you can actually do.
Get a First ↗ 03Ministry & Presence
Preaching, weddings, memorials, recovery-informed conversation, workshops, and pastoral presence for real life.
View ministry offerings →A practice you can try today
Firsts begins with doing.
A First is an invitation to do something—not simply think about it. It may be something entirely new, or a different way of entering something familiar.
The writing continues too.
Essays on grace, recovery, faith, relationships, and the experience of a life still becoming.
Read on Substack ↗What holds it together
A faith rooted in uncontrolling love.
I believe God meets us with love that invites rather than coerces and draws rather than controls. Thomas Jay Oord gives this conviction a name: amipotence.
Present for real life
Ministry that begins with listening.
For churches, couples, families, recovery communities, and people navigating beginnings, endings, questions, and change.
Northern Virginia
Maybe the first step is simply a conversation.
If Church Harvest catches your attention—even if you are unsure why—reach out. You do not need a church résumé, a settled theology, or a commitment to anything.