Early Church

Early Church is a small Anabaptist Mennonite congregation based in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. It describes itself as a community committed to celebrating transformational worship, embodying cruciform discipleship, and cultivating radical hospitality, with the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective (1995) as its rule of faith. The congregation draws from orthodox, Anabaptist, and Charismatic streams to inform its theology and liturgy. The church gathers for a Sunday celebration service at 10:00 AM, with bagels and coffee provided before fellowship at 9:00 AM, and hosts a potluck after the service on the first Sunday of every month. It meets at 700 W Market St, Harrisonburg, VA 22802, in a building called the UC, part of West Side Baptist Church. Beyond its regular worship life, Early Church has produced a notable creative project: Behold & Become, an album of 14 original worship songs, a fully notated songbook, and a music video. The project emerged after a decade of cultivating the arts of adoration together and involved seven different songwriters and a dozen musicians. This music project gives the congregation a public-facing identity beyond its local community. As a religious congregation rather than a commercial company, Early Church operates as a nonprofit faith community. Its website serves as its primary public presence, offering information about worship times, location, identity, and its music releases.

Early Church is a small Anabaptist community in the Shenandoah Valley, based in Harrisonburg, Virginia. According to its website, the congregation spent a decade cultivating the arts of adoration together before producing its worship album Behold & Become. That project brought together seven different songwriters and a dozen musicians, resulting in 14 original worship songs, a fully notated songbook, and a music video. The church describes its identity through three commitments: celebrating transformational worship, embodying cruciform discipleship, and cultivating radical hospitality. It adopts the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective (1995) as its rule of faith while drawing from orthodox, Anabaptist, and Charismatic streams to inform its theology and liturgy. As of the available evidence, the congregation continues to hold Sunday worship services at 10:00 AM at 700 W Market St, Harrisonburg, VA 22802, meeting in a building called the UC that is part of West Side Baptist Church. It hosts a potluck after the service on the first Sunday of every month. The church maintains a website at earlychurchva.org as its primary public presence.

• After a decade of cultivating the arts of adoration together, Early Church creates Behold & Become, an album of 14 original worship songs, a fully notated songbook, and a music video.

A small Anabaptist Mennonite congregation in the Shenandoah Valley, rooted in the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective (1995) and drawing from orthodox, Anabaptist, and Charismatic streams.

• Behold & Become (worship album)

  An album of 14 original worship songs created by Early Church, involving seven different songwriters and a dozen musicians.

• Behold & Become (songbook)

  A fully notated songbook accompanying the Behold & Become album.

• Behold & Become (music video)

  A music video produced as part of the Behold & Become project.

1. 1Early Church – because Jesus is redeeming the whole worldearlychurchva.org
2. 2Early Churchwikidata.org