Highland Park

Welcome Home

We’re in a teaching series called Welcome Home, where we’ll be turning to the things we long to see in our church that shape who we are as a community. We want HP Pres to be a hospitable home where people are captured by God’s desires for our church. This kind of hospitality goes beyond friendly greeters and good coffee. Henri Nouwen, in his book Reaching Out, describes hospitality as “a fundamental attitude toward our fellow human being… the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy… not to change people, but to offer them a space where change can take place.” Our longing is for our church to be a place of transformation. We long to be a place where everyone can encounter Jesus, know Jesus, and grow to be more like Jesus. Welcome home.