Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to Common Questions
These frequently asked questions answer common questions about The Poor Peoples Church.
The Poor Peoples Church is a non-denominational, independent community dedicated to the good news of God’s Love and is not affiliated with any other church.
- We worship Jesus by living like Him
- We celebrate every individual as God’s child, all are broken, all are loved
- We encourage everyone’s right to a fresh start, everyday a new beginning
- We work towards reconciliation
- We reflect the compassion and kind behavior we have received
- We welcome questions, doubt and personal spiritual exploration over cookie-cutter thinking
- We seek to meet needs within our community
- We embrace peace and compassion as a management policy
- We honor selfless committed love and loyalty within relationships
- We celebrate the afterlife with all its joy through service
The Poor Peoples Church is for anyone and everyone, regardless of any church or non-church background. Its particular focus is the inner-city poor, homeless, and disenfranchised communities.
All are welcome as-is. Whether you’re:
- Housed or unhoused
- Addicted or healing
- Certain, skeptical, or seeking
- Dirty, anxious, or mentally exhausted
You’re welcome just as you are.
We reach out to:
- The poor
- The grieving
- The rejected
- The forgotten
No membership. No prerequisites. If you’re reading this, you belong.
Most resent any association with being poor. Jesus did not. Everyone without exception is in need before God. Compared to Him, all live in poverty and lack regardless of our possessions and social standing. It is a poverty of love.
Jesus taught that wealth is deceitful. It tricks us into a false contentment. Social competition has left us with a broken sense of what is truly valuable in life, of success and failure.
All true wealth is found in Him. Those without worldly success seem to realize this sooner. They have stopped playing or have been rejected from a game that no one has ever won. They seem to understand through society’s rejection that spiritual success cannot be measured on a bank statement but through compassion, expressed in the empathy in our shared poverty.
Maybe this is why the first church, Jesus’ original congregation, were mostly the poorest of the poor, the homeless wanderers, the lowest peasant class in a win-or-lose world not unlike our own.
If you are reading this you are already part of the Poor Peoples Church community. There is no membership.
Like Jesus, we move. We do meet weekly, but the time and place can change depending on the needs of the group. If you’d like to know where the next gathering is, just reach out.
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We don’t care where you’ve been, what you believe, or how you show up. The Poor Peoples Church is a judgment-free zone where questions are welcome, labels are left behind, and everyone is accepted “as is.” You don’t have to be fixed to belong.