07/09/2026
So, what is Heart House? 🤍
We started Heart House in January with a fairly simple, but deeply held, hope:
To build a healthy expression of church.
Not perfect. Not polished. Not a place where everyone thinks, behaves or believes exactly the same way.
But a church that is Jesus-centred, Spirit-led and trauma-informed.
A house of worship and a house of healing. A place where difference can sit side by side.
Heart House grew out of the coming together of Reset and Oasis, two church communities with their own stories and histories. But we didn’t want to simply create a new name for the same thing. We wanted to make space for something new.
And somehow, as we’ve journeyed through these first months, that’s what we’re seeing.
People from different places and different seasons of life finding their way through the doors. Old friendships deepening. New friendships forming. People discovering gifts they didn’t know they had. People quietly stepping forward and taking responsibility for the things they care about.
There’s no “them” and “us”.
Just us.
This first year has been foundational for us. We’ve been thinking a lot about formation - not simply what we believe, but who we’re becoming.
What does it look like to become more like Jesus in the ordinary stuff of Tuesday afternoon?
How do we learn to love like him?
See people like him?
Make room like him?
Listen to the Spirit like him?
Because we don’t just want to talk about following Jesus on a Sunday. We want his life to shape the way we live.
We’re part of the Elim Movement, and we love the richness of our Pentecostal heritage, making room for the Holy Spirit, expecting God to move and believing that encountering Jesus changes us.
And we’re learning to hold that alongside a deep conviction that people’s stories matter. That’s why being trauma-informed is part of our foundation. But trauma isn’t the centre of our story.
Jesus is.
Our eyes are turned towards the goodness of God, his redeeming nature and the wholeness he is always drawing us towards.
We’re still learning. Still growing. Still figuring some of it out. But perhaps that’s part of the beauty. Heart House isn’t a finished thing.
We’re becoming. Together.
And the more we discover who Jesus is, the more we’re discovering what it means to be a people who make room for every heart to find home with him.
If you’ve been wondering what Heart House is about, perhaps the simplest way to find out is to come and be part of it.
Come as you are. Come curious. Come with questions. Come with faith, or not much faith at all.
There’s room for you here. 🤍
