Echoes is an evolving community of faith that promotes wholeness, practices radical welcome, and fosters relationship with each other, our neighbors, and our natural home.

Our Mission

Over and over again in Scripture, Jesus went out of his way to spend time with those whom the religious and cultural society had considered outsiders. He offered dignity, compassion, inclusion, and justice. In doing so Jesus, as God in human form, revealed that God is concerned for and welcomes all persons.

 The church has the responsibility to emulate this specific pattern of Jesus. As such, Echoes strives to be a safe, spiritual community for all persons, regardless of ethnicity, socioeconomic status, body shape, physical capabilities, emotional maturity, or education levels. 

• Because Echoes is open to all, we choose specifically to invite anyone who has felt rejected by church, including, but not limited to, LGBTQIA+ persons, as well as gender-queer and those with varying gender expressions or identities, to attend, participate, and lead.

• Because Echoes seeks justice for all, we commit to actively dismantle white supremacy as we work to become an anti-racism community. We acknowledge Bellingham’s sinful history of exclusion to people who were not white and choose specifically to welcome BIPOC individuals to attend, participate and lead.

With this value of inclusiveness, we hope to be a hospitable community, following in the ways of Jesus, making Bellingham a better (and more just) place to live for all.

Reconciling in Christ Statement: Revised Spring 2021