Welcome to St. Thomas Church
We're SO thankful you're checking us out! The apostle Thomas (one of Jesus' original 12 followers) is often referred to as the patron saint of doubters. He inspires us at STC. We believe that the God we worship is big enough to wrestle with, to question, to yell at, and to fight with. In fact, the people of Israel got their name by being those who wrestle and prevail with God. We want to live into that tradition, so at STC we welcome your questions and your doubts.
Beyond that, we are about creativity. We are tired of the old, the outdated, and the irrelevant. And we are working to breathe new life into the Church! We are going to do things differently. No more thys and thous -- we want to pray the way people talk. We want our rituals to make sense to our neighbors. So join our effort in helping us do church better. We need you!
Phone
503.662.2948
Location
546 High St NE
Salem, OR
Our Mission
Our community exists to participate in God’s ongoing project of inviting all people into a radically welcoming Kindom of Shalom. We seek to respond to the blind spots and failures of the Church, so that we might create new spaces of transformation.
Our Vision
We gather to reframe timeless Christian truths and practices in a language and style that makes sense today. We seek to heal and reveal the image of God in ourselves, our neighbors, and our communities so that God’s Jubilee might be experienced by everyone.
Our Values
We value authenticity, wrestling with God, loving our neighbor, creativity in worship, growing in faith, and remaining rooted in the life and teaching of Jesus so that our community becomes an environment of mutuality and practice.
You can learn more about our beliefs by clicking here
Join Us for Our Current Sermon Series:
Something we say at St Thomas often is that if you want to take the Bible seriously, and see it for the beautiful book that it is, you ought to read it through the themes of Shalom, Hesed, and Jubilee (we define all of these in our terms page). Which is easy to say, but can be hard to do! SO, we are going to spend the whole summer doing just that; looking at texts through the whole Bible, both the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament to see how those themes inform our understandings of the story of God in the text! We hope you’ll join us!