Our Story

They read Gary and Kim Shockley’s book Imagining Church: Seeking Hope in a World of Change, and began to realize that, in many quarters, the church today is suffering from a lack of imagination. They found themselves understanding what Zoe Heller meant when she said, “My lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination — an inability to accept mystery.” They remembered that Walt Disney once wrote, “Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age.” And some of them really liked the MercyMe song, “I Can Only Imagine.” It became pretty clear what God was creating in their very midst and what this new movement should be called. Imagine Church!