WHO WE ARE
St. Croix Church is a contemporary church located in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada. Services are held on Sunday mornings and there are various intentional groups that meet together throughout the month, many of them weekly. (See our ► Calendar of Events page for details).
INCLUSIVE
Our community seeks to be fully affirming of LGBTQ+ people, their relationships and their gifts being shared in our midst.
COMMUNITY
SCC is actually more like a community than a traditional church. It is a friendly, informal, non-judgmental and safe place to grow spiritually. We teach the traditional Christian values of loving God and loving our neighbours, but we often do this in non-traditional ways.
St. Croix Church is a community rooted in the Jesus Way – a way that centres a loving welcome to all and a path to liberation together. We learn from the generations of those who have followed this way, as we engage intentionally, appreciatively and critically with their examples and their words. We want to be a church community that values each voice and listens with openness and attention, trusting that the Spirit is at work in us all.
This trust invites us to learn not only from the best of Christian tradition, but also from other wisdom traditions and scientific explorations. We acknowledge our imperfections as a community and try to be a place of ongoing healing and transformation rather than harm to all those who come across our paths. When we gather, we celebrate the Presence of God in Jesus and in each other, and we invite God’s Spirit to empower us all with the understanding, courage, and creativity needed to love our neighbours as ourselves.
WELCOME!
Welcome to St. Croix Church! We are a church community that seeks to be defined by our love for God, for each other, and for the world we inhabit. We do our best to welcome everyone into a community where they can be known and loved, believing that each person is a unique incarnation of the divine.
We recognize that historically the Church has done much to exclude and marginalize people based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, racial and cultural background, religion, marital status, physical ability, intellectual capacity, and age. As followers of Jesus, we believe that the life of our community can only be fully expressed by prioritizing this kind of diversity, inclusion, and creativity among us. We fully affirm LGBTQ+ people in our community, and we honour and celebrate their relationships, their lives, and their gifts. We want to learn continually how to remove any of the barriers that we knowingly or unknowingly place in anyone’s path.