En Vivo Church

🏳️‍🌈 Happy National Coming Out Day! 🏳️‍⚧️

🫶🏾 No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey (or your own coming out journey), you are welcome here!

👉🏾 Learn more about our Gender & Sexuality Justice Ministries, download resources, and take action for LGBTQIA+ justice: https://ow.ly/sUb250TJIE3

This past Sunday, En Vivo Church welcomed 11 new members to the church. Help us welcome all them and the excitement and energy they bring as we continue to grow.

We are honored to share the Outstanding Venue Award for ArtPrize 2024 with ArtRat Gallery in the Heartside Neighborhood. Congratulations!

Guess who just won the best ArtPrize venues award. EN VIVO CHURCH!!! Thank you for everyone that practiced radical hospitality and making our church accessible to the community these last couple of weeks!

Congratulations to Pat ApPaul Photography for winning the Q***r Visibility Award tonight at ArtPrize 2024. So excited that his work is being shown at En Vivo Church.

is in full swing and you are invited to see the SOVEREIGN EXHIBITION at En Vivo Church, Creston Grand Rapids, untill september 28th.

The SOVEREIGN EXHIBITION is a 9 image exhibition, taking images and text from the Zine YOU helped fund. It is is being exhibited at En Vivo Church, a led church, and one of the most welcoming spaces you are ever going to encounter.

If your able, I would love to see you at the exhibition, (I know for some it mite be a little to far to travel). I am planing on being there for the next 2 fridays and Saturdays, so comeing say hi!

Also, if you are able to attend ArtPrize2024, and where not able to support the SOVEREIGN ZINE, I will have copys for sale!

We are excited to announce that our venue features three of the artists that are in the current top 100 for ArtPrize. Come and check out the work of all the artists on display at En Vivo Church! Congratulations to you all!

https://www.woodtv.com/news/artprize/halftime-artprize-2024-to-announce-100-top-vote-getters/

Join us in person or live on Facebook at 10:07 am, when Rev. Ricardo Tavárez, Mechele S - Art and Pat ApPaul Photography will be joining us to talk about their ArtPrize entries on display at En Vivo Church .

Pat ApPaul Photography is one of three artist featured in this article and En Vivo Church is proud to have him and his work in our space for ArtPrize this year. Make sure you come check out his work and the other 5 artists at En Vivo!

Meet 3 Artists Creating Q***r-Influenced Work for ArtPrize in Grand Rapids Ahead of ArtPrize, the annual international art competition that takes over much of downtown Grand Rapids each year, hundreds of artists are finalizing

Be the first to see the art at En Vivo Church and meet the artists too. Catering done by New City Cafe !

Our support group for Parent's of LGBTQ+ Youth is meeting this Wednesday, September 11th, 6:30-8:30pm.

If you're a parent looking for mutual support as you support your LGBTQ+ child, young or old, we invite you to join us!

https://envivochurch.org/parent-group/

Parking Information

The Festival will be taking place in the West Creston Business Parking Lot, 122 Quimby St. NE and 123 Caledonia St. NE. There will not be any parking available in this lot on September 8, 2024!

Parking is available on the side streets (Quimby, Coit Caledonia Queen and Spencer), Plainfield Ave and in the East Creston Business Parking Lot, located at 223 Spencer St. NE

Please note that portions of Quimby and Coit Streets will be closed during the event for the parade and general safety reasons.
Hope to see you!

Have you heard about Creston Pride? Our church is one of the partners brining it to life! Please check out the page and give it a follow. We're celebrating Pride one more time before the end of summer.

We just hit 101 followers. Woohoo! But we want all of our LGBTQ+ friends and allies to know they're invited to this end of summer Pride fest on Sept 8th. Please share. Help us get to 201 followers by the end of the weekend! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Share with your friends. We're accepting applications for our Q***r Artist Market for Creston Pride on Sept 8th. We're also accepting general vendors and food trucks. Apply here: envivochurch.org/crestonpride