Welcome to Juniper Formation

To co-create an inclusive community of healing, formation, relationship, and possibility for those who seek an unsettled faith and life together.

• Meaningful relationships, community, and small group ministry teams;
• Discernment, or spiritual understanding; 
• Accompaniment in co-creating new ministries and churches, or reimagining current ministries and churches;
• Faith formation for prophetic action, reflection, and the development of a diversity of ministers (both lay and ordained; and
• Renewal and healing

People on the margins and people who center the margins

People who want to grow as faith leaders, reluctant leaders, and those feeling called to ministry (lay and ordained) who seek a community of support and innovation.

People seeking unsettled peace within a sustainable faith community, grounded in care, ritual, and healing

Our church is women- and nonbinary-led, multiethnic and antiracist, affirming of undocumented people, celebrating of different abilities, and Open & Affirming of LGBTQ+ individuals and families in the life, leadership, and sacraments of our church. We are centering the margins of the Church. Our pronouns are they, she, and he.

Juniper Formation is an ecumenical faith community of the United Church of Christ (UCC). We are movement leaders and people in ministry who are prophetically reimagining the Church from the margins.

Our mission is prophetically reimagining the Church by incubating new ministries, centering the margins of the Church in leadership, and accompanying one another through prophetic discernment and ministry formation.

Juniper Formation is invested in shared liberation and disrupting the cornerstones of oppression; and committed to radical love and justice for the diversity of God's creation, especially the marginalized and oppressed.

Christ-Centered
Jesus' words and acts as foundational for prophetic ministry

Spirit-Led
Sharing the creative, vulnerable, and courageous responsibility and accountability to listen to the movement of the Holy Spirit

Liberated Imagination
The freedom to imagine shared liberation and to disrupt the cornerstones of oppression

Relationship
Accompanying one another in discernment, formation, and prophetic action

Radical Love & Justice
Radical love and justice for the diversity of God's creation, especially the marginalized and oppressed

Co-Creation
Gathering in community to co-create by working with (not for) others