“Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Our Vision
a gospel-shaped community pursuing the peace of our place
What’s In a Name?
GRACE is God’s saving kindness towards sinners. We are created in the image of God for the sake of imaging God. Like a sprinkler, we are made to know and show God’s love in all directions. Our attempts to live life on our own terms have disconnected us from God, but God has graciously moved towards us in the person of Jesus to reconcile us to Himself and renew us in His image.
PEACE, aka “shalom,” is not just the absence of conflict—it is human beings living in a right relationship with God, one another, and the world around us. Shalom is the way things are supposed to be. God’s grace to us in Jesus results in God’s peace—a peace that begins with God but gets worked into all our other relationships as well.
CHURCH is a community of beautiful-but-broken people being renewed by the grace & peace of Jesus. We were once alienated from God and strangers to one another, but God has brought us together. Despite our differences (race, class, politics, education, etc.), we are relearning what it means to love God, one another, and where we live.
VERMONT is a beautiful place that gives us glimpses of God’s shalom, but it is also a broken place that desperately needs it too. Vermont is not simply where we are located—Vermont is the people and place we are called to serve, embodying God’s grace and peace in humble, celebratory, and sacrificial ways.
Church Planters
John and Megan Meinen have loved and served the greater Burlington community since they moved to Vermont in 2012 to start Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at the University of Vermont (UVM). After fourteen years with RUF, they want to plant a church that will meet the needs of students and neighbors alike—a church that will draw people together around the grace of God and equip its members to pursue the peace of the place where they live.
You’re Invited!
Want to see God’s grace and peace spread throughout Vermont? If so, please consider partnering with us. We cannot plant this church on our own. We need God’s help, of course, but we also need other people to join us in this missional work—people who are hospitable, humble, and kind; who are invitational and open-hearted; who love God and want to make his love known. If that is you, please reach out—we would love to be in touch. Lastly, If you believe in this church plant and want to see it thrive, I am inviting you to give generously (as you are able). Your giving is not just a donation—it is an investment in this people and this place with a return on investment that is eternal. Join us in helping plant this church and expanding the scope of God’s grace & peace in VT!