We are a new church plant that is passionate about creating spaces for reconciling relationships. As a community we have latched tightly to 2 Corinthians 5:16-21.

“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

A group of ten people came together for dinner in the middle of summer of 2009 and began to dream about how we might connect to God’s ministry of reconciliation. We informally met on a weekly basis over that summer and since then, we have been discovering that reconciliation means coming alongside our others, whoever those others may be. We recognize that this is not easy work, but we also recognize that we once made God our other, and that God still came alongside us, making us into new creations. In this new creation, we feel called and committed to participating with God in God’s ministry of reconciliation.

We began more official gatherings in the fall of 2009. Through the autumn we celebrated the reality that our stories are diverse and our backgrounds different. Yet we at Northland Village Church are united in this diversity as a family of followers of God. Through the fall of 2009 we took our neighborhood and our gifts very seriously. We learned all that we could about NE Los Angeles and we discerned five felt needs of the area. We also dedicated ourselves to discovering our communal identity through an in depth study of our giftedness. At the intersection of our gifts and the felt needs of the area, we came up with five ways in which we might use our gifts to meet the needs of the city. These are the ways that we desire to serve as reconcilers in our neighborhoods.

To put it simply. We are becoming. We are becoming what we believe God is calling us to become. This becoming is focused upon being Christ’s ambassadors in the communities that we find ourselves, hoping to be agents of reconciliation throughout NE Los Angeles and beyond.