The theme this year is “Keep Church Weird!” The Church is weird. For starters, our faith doesn’t begin with what we have done for ourselves, but instead recognizes what God has done for us. The event begins with registration at 9:00 am on Saturday, April 14, with the kick-off starting at 10:00 am. We will close the event at 12:00 noon on Sunday, April 15.
In this world, that’s different. Even then, the Gospel of Jesus is (and, therefore the Church should be) counter-cultural, where the first are last, weakness can be strength, and death actually means living life to the fullest. Then we have our peculiar churchy traditions: sprinkling water on babies, eating bread, drinking wine, Confirmation, putting handprints on the youth room wall, and all those church potlucks. Weird stuff, isn’t it?