Our vision is to grow towards becoming an intergenerational, multi-ethnic, anti-racist, geographically and economically diverse Christian community gathered together and sustained by creative worship, biblically-inspired learning, empathetic ministry, nonviolently disrupting injustice in the world.

Our Staff

Rev. Tom Harris

Rev. Tom Harris arrived in Palo Alto in 2024 after serving a church in Baltimore, MD for 17 years. During this time in Baltimore City his dedication to racial, gender, and economic justice became central to his faith. He says, “My theology is based on an understanding of God as the source of creation and…

Rev. Kelly Wiant

Kelly Wiant is a pastor who lives in Harrisburg, PA with her wife, Kristen, and their five-year-old daughter, Cora. Kelly served as the associate pastor at Market Square Presbyterian Church for over 20 years. While tending to the whole congregation, her primary focus was leading and coordinating youth ministry as well as AWE, the Alternative…

Dr. Andy Chislett

Originally from England, Andrew Chislett moved to the United States at the age of sixteen. He holds a doctorate in music in organ performance and literature from Indiana University’s Jacob School of Music, where his principal organ teachers were Marilyn Keiser and Christopher Young. Andrew previously studied organ in Seattle with J. Melvin Butler. He…

Katelan “Kat” Bowden

Katelan “Kat” Bowden is a coloratura soprano from Davis, California. A graduate of UC Davis, Bowden has been a member of the northern Californian music scene for almost three decades,  spanning genres and styles from opera roles to choral settings, lieder to baroque, musical theater to folk rock, and everything in between. Bowden has appeared…