Our Purpose

In short, it is to bring the resources of the Christian Gospel (truth, worship, sacraments, community, mission) to bear upon our ourselves and the City of Portland with the intention of changing lives, relationships, and neighborhoods.

Our Message

The classic Gospel message – that God is at work reconciling the whole world to himself. The Gospel is not only “good news” about individual salvation, but about the restoration of the whole world. Jesus came to earth not simply for the purpose of forgiveness of sin, but to inaugurate a whole new world where love, justice, beauty, and peace could begin to replace disorder, oppression, violence and despair. He calls his church to work for these values now in the present world with the promise that one day, he would set all things would right.

Our Hope

We hope that Intown would be a community which cultivates a vision of the future that bears upon our present, one that fundamentally changes our relationships, workplaces, neighborhoods, urban spaces, playgrounds, and city. This will happen through worship, through gatherings in homes, through founding new churches, and through the individuals who comprise Intown Church, intentionally caring for their neighbors in the places in which they live.