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What a year here looks like

Mooncakes made by the grandparents, hotpot on someone’s floor, crabs in Galveston, a basketball team that’s definitely the best. These are the church’s own photographs and its own captions.

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What’s coming up

Nothing on the calendar right now. Sunday worship and Friday Bible study continue as usual.

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Moments

Ordinary weeks

  • More than fifty people eating together at long tables covered in red cloth in the fellowship hall, a red Chinese knot hanging on the wall behind them.
    Old friends and new, together at church for the Mid-Autumn Festival, 2023.
  • About a dozen older church members and one boy around folding tables in the fellowship hall, wearing food-preparation gloves and pressing mooncakes into moulds.
    The seniors make the mooncakes to be shared at Mid-Autumn.
  • About ten older adults standing in a taiji posture on a brick patio under trees hung with ribbons.
    The Crown of Glory fellowship practising taiji.
  • Six young men sitting arm in arm around a low table at home, with two electric hotpots, sliced beef, prawns, tofu and vegetables laid out.
    There’s nothing hotpot can’t fix. If one round won’t do it, have two.
  • Six men in green sports tops standing together on a sunny park lawn, holding two basketballs.
    The church basketball team. You’re the best. Go, go, go!
  • A woman on a rock jetty at golden hour holding up a ring net with a live blue crab in it, a bait bucket beside her.
    The professionals' retreat in Galveston. Famous for crabs, you understand.
  • Seven people standing in a shallow river beneath a waterfall, passing a long channel of water between them as a team exercise.
    The young people’s retreat. Worship, reflection, and learning to work as a team.
  • About twenty-five men and a few women, a teenager and a small child standing in the sanctuary holding up dark green T-shirts printed with One DAD Fits ALL.
    Showing off the Father’s Day presents, with some pride.
  • An eight-person worship team on the church platform with an acoustic guitar and microphone stands, bilingual hymn lyrics projected behind them.
    The Mid-Autumn worship evening, 2023.
  • A church kitchen counter loaded with trays of baked and snow-skin mooncakes alongside foil pans of watermelon, strawberries, blueberries and grapes, with two people working at the back.
    The logistics team making the last preparations for the 2023 Mid-Autumn gathering.
  • Four bags of Chinese luffa and long beans portioned out on a kitchen counter, ready to be given away.
    Harvest season is the season for sharing the vegetables you can’t buy here. The Chinese ones go fast.
  • Five people on a covered back patio beside a table of home-cooked Chinese dishes, including fish in chilli broth and stir-fried vegetables.
    A good meal to welcome new co-workers joining the church.
  • About twelve adults standing together in a family living room, with two decorated cakes on a low table in front of them, one with a lit candle.
    The professionals' fellowship turning up at a home with birthday wishes and two beautiful cakes.
  • A collage of three decorated cakes on a cream background, iced with the words God Bless You and Joy Peace.
    Three cakes, three styles, one idea: sharing love and good food in the Lord.

Looking back

Past events

Kept on purpose. A church that has been here since 1993 should be able to show its own back catalogue.

  • 11:00 AM

    Lunar New Year celebration

    Worship music, a New Year message, a reunion meal, lantern riddles and gifts. The whole church together.

    • Families
    • Students

    1801 Gurley Avenue

    This event has passed

  • Fellowship at Woodway Park

    Sport, getting to know one another, and enjoying what God has made. An afternoon outdoors together.

    Woodway Park

    This event has passed

Come and sit at the back

There’s a seat here with nothing attached to it.

You don’t need to believe anything in particular, know anyone, or bring anything. Turn up on a Sunday, or write first and we’ll arrange for someone to meet you at the door.

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Sunday Worship Sunday 11:00 AM
Address 1801 Gurley Avenue
Waco, TX 76706

We’re non-denominational, and share this building with Emmanuel Baptist Church, our partner congregation.

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