When you look at the early church in Scripture, you see something beautiful and countercultural: people doing life together. They didn’t just gather once a week and disperse. They shared meals, served side by side, prayed together, celebrated joys together, and wept through sorrows together. Community was woven into the fabric of their everyday lives.

The Bible often describes the church as a body. Think about that image for a moment. Just as your physical body has many different parts, each with a unique function, all working together to make you whole, so too the church functions as one interconnected organism. We need each other. We lean on each other. We’re designed to function together, not in isolation.

None of us is perfect. We stumble. We fail. We disappoint one another. But what holds us together isn’t our goodness; it’s Jesus’ perfection and His endless grace. At Olympia City Church, we believe community should be deeply intertwined with our ordinary rhythms of life. We don’t compartmentalize faith into one hour on Sunday. Instead, community becomes the natural rhythm in which we live, work, serve, and grow together.