Dear Valley Church Family, This summer our high school and middle school ministries took 58 students to Hume Lake Summer Camp from July 6-12.  Hume hosts over 1000 high schoolers and more than 300 middle schoolers each week throughout the summer, and on our final night there, we stood outside under the stars for worship.…

Dear Saints of Valley Church, One of my Christian heroes is C.S. Lewis. From being handed a copy of Mere Christianity as a young believer to reading his later reflections on suffering and pain, to my reading of The Chronicles of Narnia to my children, I believe that the writings of Lewis are among God’s…

Dear Saints of Valley Church, In the corner of the Palatine Museum in Rome hangs an etching on part of a plaster slab discovered as part of the Roman school on the Palatine Hill. This etched graffiti, dating back to around A.D. 200, known as the Alexamenos Graffito, is one of the earliest artistic representations…

We live in a world captivated by survival. Shows like Survivor echo a deep truth: we all face challenges that test our limits—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. But while reality TV focuses on alliances, eliminations, and endurance, Psalm 30 points to a deeper narrative: the movement of the heart from independence to dependence, from pride to…