By God’s grace, we seek to be a Spirit-empowered church in the East Bay, worshipping the resurrected Christ as supreme king, pursuing ever deeper communion in his love by His Spirit, loving one another earnestly, and bearing witness to that love among our community and neighbors.
OUR STORY
Our church began in Castro Valley in 2010 with a small group of people who experienced the truths of the Gospel and wanted others to know the same. Over the years we’ve added ministries to our church life and have sought to worship Jesus, make disciples, and be a faithful gospel witness to our community. In 2014 we joined the Presbyterian Church in America. Ten years later we moved to our current space in Hayward.
We hold to what all Christians have believed throughout history since the days of the apostles, expressed in the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed. We are a confessional church - committed to the doctrinal foundations of the Protestant Reformation. They are articulated in the Westminster Confession and Catechisms. In this, we stand in the mainstream of historic orthodox Christianity, in the Reformed tradition.
OUR NAME
Our name is taken from the hymn A Mercy to Debtor Alone.
My name from the palms of his hands,
Eternity will not erase.
Impressed on his heart it remains,
In marks of indelible grace.
The lyrics point to the words in the book of Isaiah. Responding to the people who felt abandoned by God, he says to them "Can a woman forget her nursing child? Even if it is possible for her to forget such a thing, I will never forget you. See, as evidence, as I have engraved you on the palms of my hands." (Isaiah 49:14-16)