New to Cascade Hills?

We're a new church in Salem living the adventure of following Jesus into a life that's all God intends.

What we believe

What we believe shapes what we do. We are a community of people profoundly shaped by the conviction that God cares deeply about our broken world, that He began its once-and-for-all restoration in Jesus, and that anyone who wants in on God’s plans for the world’s glorious future can begin to experience that future now by believing and following Jesus. [John 3:16-21] [Mark 1:15] [1 Corinthians 15:1-28]. Here's a little more about what we believe.

What we're about

We're about following Jesus into a life that's all God intends. We think Jesus knew how to connect with God (His father), knew how to love, treat, and serve people, and knew the way into the kind of life that was everything God intended from the very beginning. We're a people in the process of learning together how to live like Jesus. We're far from perfect, but we count on the fact that God offers to take ordinary people like you and me and walk with us into this new way of living. Read more of what we're about.

Where we came from

We're a "church plant", a small core of people partnering with God to raise up a church out of people from the neighborhoods of this city. We're looking for folks unconnected to other churches, whether or not they would call themselves "believers." The main thing at Cascade Hills is interest in seeing where God might take us on this adventure of faith. Read more about where we came from.

What to Expect

If you join us for Sunday morning worship, you''ll probably notice a couple of things. We're pretty informal: dressing casually, laughing and talking together. We think we're friendly and welcoming (but every church thinks that; you'll have to see for yourself...) We begin worship right around 10am. Here's some of what you'll see on any given Sunday:

• Singing (a cappella style, meaning simply that we worship without instrumental accompaniment)
• Praying of various kinds, often with some space added for you to pray your own prayers or reflect silently
• Offering back to God our time, talents, commitments, prayer requests, and financial gifts. You are welcome to participate if you like in any of these offerings, but we do not expect guests to put money in the offering baskets
• Hearing and discussing a passage from the Bible; we favor interactive preaching over lecture-style
• Thinking together through ways we can live out what we see in Scripture
• Taking Communion together; we invite anyone who follows Jesus to take Communion with us.
• We're usually finished between 11:30 and 11:40.

What about kids?

We have lots of families with kids at Cascade Hills and we take their presence among us as a blessing and a serious responsibility. Families worship together for the first 15 minutes or so of our Sunday worship time, at which point we usually sing a kid-focused song and then have one or more of the children's ministry teachers come forward to share what the kids are doing that Sunday. Then, we provide various age-appropriate classes while the adults remain in the main sanctuary. We have an attended nursery, a toddlers/two classroom, classes for kids ages 3-5 and for kids ages 6-10.