Our Story

Sandy has been a United Methodist pastor in Virginia. She and her husband, Tim, are launching out in a new direction, offering “church” in quite an unusual way. Read on.

Sandy is a United Methodist pastor from Virginia.

Church is really all about community, growing, changed lives, serving and hearing Jesus together. It’s not about four walls of a building or a certain time on Sunday morning.

Doing church in community powered by Jesus is our dream.

We are finding people ready to start a new kind of church movement where people are front and center, and matter more than a building. It’s all about community.

We aren’t located in one place.

We are highly mobile and freely help people get new groups started in the community. That makes us a fast moving network of locations and small communities. We won’t own a building. Instead, we meet in people’s homes, in local coffee shops, at the marina, and in borrowed spaces!

Most of us don’t know a lot about the Bible, but we’re learning.

Water’s Edge realizes how hard it is to “just show up at church.” We start at the beginning and help each other. Sandy’s personal story is about landing in church without a clue about where to begin! So, we start with the assumption that you don’t know where to begin and that you just want a good friend who will listen and help you hear Jesus.

For whatever the reason, a “traditional church” is not the right fit for a lot of people.  We believe if people come together to genuinely seek Jesus, that’s “church.”

We hear Jesus saying, “Come on! Let’s do something different!”