The God who sees, also sends.

Exodus begins with a God who refuses to look away from pain.

He sees His people's oppression. He hears their cries. And He comes down — not with a plan from a distance, but with rescue up close.

Then God calls Moses. Not because Moses was ready, strong, or willing — but because God's rescue has always included His people's participation.

The same God who sees you in your need is the God who sends you to bring His freedom to someone else.

Next Steps:

1. Ask yourself honestly: do I believe God sees what I'm carrying right now?

2. Identify one place of need, injustice, or darkness God may be sending you into this week.

Is it worth it to gather together?

Community is practiced through shared experiences.

Community is practiced through presence — and few things practice it like a shared table.

Around the table we share our stories, our meals, and our faith. In those simple, sacred moments, we encounter Christ and one another.

The table is where strangers become family, burdens are shared, and grace is experienced in real time.

From strangers to family. From presence over outcomes to God at work among us. That's why we gather.

Next Steps:

1. Host or join a shared meal this week — practice presence and gratitude.

2. Put one gathering on your calendar this week before the moment slips away.

Your next step starts at thewocc.com/welcome

We were never meant to do life alone. Community is a six-week journey into what it means to live life with God, lived together—moving from an isolated, private faith into the kind of connected life that actually forms us. Following the ancient rhythm of worship, we'll walk from adoration to commission: learning to show up, to be honest about our brokenness, to give and receive accountability, to navigate conflict with grace, to serve one another, and to gather around the table where strangers become family. God shapes us most deeply through the people right next to us. This is an invitation to stop watching from a distance and step in.

We were never meant to do life alone. Community is a six-week journey into what it means to live life with God, lived together—moving from an isolated, private faith into the kind of connected life that actually forms us. Following the ancient rhythm of worship, we'll walk from adoration to commission: learning to show up, to be honest about our brokenness, to give and receive accountability, to navigate conflict with grace, to serve one another, and to gather around the table where strangers become family. God shapes us most deeply through the people right next to us. This is an invitation to stop watching from a distance and step in.

We were never meant to do life alone. Community is a six-week journey into what it means to live life with God, lived together—moving from an isolated, private faith into the kind of connected life that actually forms us. Following the ancient rhythm of worship, we'll walk from adoration to commission: learning to show up, to be honest about our brokenness, to give and receive accountability, to navigate conflict with grace, to serve one another, and to gather around the table where strangers become family. God shapes us most deeply through the people right next to us. This is an invitation to stop watching from a distance and step in.

Why is vulnerability worth the risk?

Confession is the practice that turns community into connection.

The hardest part of community is people. We're all a little messy — carrying our own stories, wounds, and defenses.

Real connection asks us to lower our walls, and that feels risky. But we can't be known if we keep them up.

Authentic community begins when we choose curiosity over criticism and honesty over hiding. Vulnerability isn't weakness; it's the soil where grace takes root.

From guarded to known. From hiding to healing. That's what confession makes possible.

Next Steps:

1. Share one real, vulnerable thing with someone you trust this week.

2. Choose curiosity over criticism in one relationship — ask a question and really listen.

Your next step starts at thewocc.com/welcome

If faith is personal, why can't it stay private?

Community is essential to our spiritual formation.

We celebrate independence and self-sufficiency but from the very beginning, God said it wasn't good for us to be alone.

We were made in the image of a relational God, created from relationship and for relationship. Isolation runs against our design.

Community isn't optional to faith; it's essential to being formed by God. It's where we see how He moves in others, and where He refines and rekindles us.

From isolation to belonging. From watching at a distance to showing up. That's where formation begins.

Next Steps:

1. Reach out to one person today — a call, a text, an invitation — and take a step out of isolation.

2. Find your place in person this week: join a group or make a plan to gather with others.

Your next step starts at thewocc.com/welcome

Have you ever felt like your faith and your daily life are two separate things?

From the very first pages of Scripture, the Spirit of God has been present moving, renewing, and making something out of nothing. And Jesus promised that same Spirit would live inside every one of his followers.

Not as a feeling.

Not as a concept.

As a Person.

This series is about learning to know him and letting him change everything.

Our prayer is that you would walk out of here today not just having learned something about the Holy Spirit, but having encountered him.

Next Steps:

1. Ask the Holy Spirit to make himself known to you this week

2. Read John 14:16–17 and sit with it for five minutes

3. Come back next week — this is just the beginning

Have you ever felt like your faith and your daily life are two separate things?

From the very first pages of Scripture, the Spirit of God has been present moving, renewing, and making something out of nothing. And Jesus promised that same Spirit would live inside every one of his followers.

Not as a feeling.

Not as a concept.

As a Person.

This series is about learning to know him and letting him change everything.

Our prayer is that you would walk out of here today not just having learned something about the Holy Spirit, but having encountered him.

Next Steps:

1. Ask the Holy Spirit to make himself known to you this week

2. Read John 14:16–17 and sit with it for five minutes

3. Come back next week — this is just the beginning

Your next step starts at thewocc.com/welcome

Have you ever felt like your faith and your daily life are two separate things?

From the very first pages of Scripture, the Spirit of God has been present moving, renewing, and making something out of nothing. And Jesus promised that same Spirit would live inside every one of his followers.

Not as a feeling.

Not as a concept.

As a Person.

This series is about learning to know him and letting him change everything.

Our prayer is that you would walk out of here today not just having learned something about the Holy Spirit, but having encountered him.

Next Steps:

1. Ask the Holy Spirit to make himself known to you this week

2. Read John 14:16–17 and sit with it for five minutes

3. Come back next week — this is just the beginning

Your next step starts at thewocc.com/welcome