Unveiling the name

The day has finally come to announce the name of our new church. We’ve been calling it “the new church” or “the church plant” for months now, and over that time we’ve been working on a discerning a name that reflects who we are and what we’re about.

And that name is Headwaters Covenant Church.

Throughout the scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation, rivers symbolize life and wholeness. We see the rivers that flow out of Eden, watering the garden of Paradise. The river in the book of Ezekiel that flows from the temple and transforms the Dead Sea into a place of life. The river of the water of life that flows from the throne in the last chapter of the Bible, a river that waters the tree of life in the new creation.

When Jesus talked with the woman at the well under the hot, noonday sun, he offered her “living water”--that is, new life. When Jesus offered this new life to the people at the temple, he said, “If anyone is thirsty, let them come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within them.” (John 7:37-38)

This is compelling imagery. It speaks to the source of real life being in God. It speaks to the transforming power of God. It speaks to this transforming work in us spreading to others.

And that’s what we want to be about. Life and wholeness. New life that brings life to others.