"Church of the Cross is a church community that believes that the Gospel changes everything.  It’s a safe place to bring your questions and doubts.  It’s a place where you don’t have to believe what we believe to be our friend.  We're here for Good."

We say the above paragraph almost every week when we gather together.  It's what we hope to be.  It's what we hope to embody.  We certainly have a ways to go but we get glimpses of our goal almost every Sunday.

COTC started with three couples in a living room in late 2015. We wanted to start a church in Whitefish that would seek to love and serve the city, a church whose people would seek relationships and build community with others, a church that values worship as central to the life of all people, and a church that is firmly rooted in the Gospel, or good news about Christ. Even if you’re reading this and could get on board with maybe one or two of these ideas but aren’t sure or have doubts about the others, that’s ok, we get doubts and talk about them a lot around here.

Believe it or not we are a people who:

• Sit on both sides of the political aisle
• Agree to disagree on some things
• Like to have fun
• Believe God gave us brains to use them
• Seek to do justice locally in big and small ways
• Long for true community
• Want to see a broken world mended
• Think the Bible is fascinating, frustrating, inspirational and confusing
• Think the church has not always stood up and fought for the oppressed and less fortunate
• Are on a journey to understand ourselves, God and the world around us
• Admit our doubts, failures and shortcomings​