Welcome Tourists, Passers-through, Nearby Businesses, and Neighbors! Thank you for your interest in using the Village Green.
Our Church considers all people our neighbor.
For those that don’t know, our church owns most of the property that is the Village Green, and the Town owns a very small portion on the sidewalk facing Tinker and a sliver on Rock City Road.
With the Town, we are stewards of a community space, and we consider it the heart of our community. One of the things we’re doing as a church to facilitate two-way communication with the community is install an interpretive display on wooden posts, which shares a historic narrative of our Church alongside the Town as owners and stewards of this property. With the installation of this display, we hope to facilitate ways of mutually being good Neighbors. In 2005, Kathleen Edwards Chase, our pastor for about 14 years, along with Consistory and the Town of Woodstock, created a Town Agreement with the purpose of setting respectful perimeters on the space…like specific times on amplified music, prohibited activities like individual vending, but more importantly put in writing the mission and use of the Village Green…namely, that “…it is to be an open space for all.”
In attempting to fully honor our Agreement, the designed use of the Village Green, and live out Christ’s command to love our neighbor, we feel that our role as the Church is to advocate for the voiceless, stand up to oppression in all forms, and not remain bystanders in moments of great evil and mistreatment of our neighbor.
For Group Use:
We welcome groups to use the space that would share in our mission: to help others, to be kind, to be merciful, and to do good in love and truth. We look forward to partnering with community heroes, nonprofits that overlap with our faith and organizational mission, and those that would work toward making a space for bipartisan peaceful civic expression.
All are encouraged to read the Town Agreement or the summary version we created on our church website. To apply, please use the request form below. As we are a small group of committed volunteers, you will hear from someone with the contact information you provide in less than a week.
Thank you and God Bless!
Sincerely,
The Consistory (Pastor, Elders, Deacons, and the Village Green Committee), 6/30/2025
Click here to learn more about the history and mission of the Green, and the specifics of what's permitted, per the Town-Church Agreement from 2006: