When we heard from people in the Cowichan area that there needed to be another church there that will contend for the valley, the word ”valley” was repeated so many times. This got us thinking that maybe the name “Valley” would be a good idea. From there, an analogy started to surface. The analogy that came to mind was how often we as people are always looking for a mountaintop experience in our f
aith journey. Though the mountaintop experience is desirable, it is in the valley where we wrestle through the hard stuff. It’s in the valley where the land is fertile and full of growth, and it is in the valley of life where we find ourselves most often. It is in the valley when often we have lost hope and can’t see what’s outside of ourselves… but Jesus meets us there! Jesus meets us and brings us hope and promises to never leave us. It became pretty clear that we want to be a people that exemplify this metaphor.
