When we sat with Stephen from Crop Marks Design to come up with a logo to define The River of Grace, we were praying that God would inspire our conversation and Stephen’s creativity. Stephen listened to the story of RoG, asking question and taking notes. He came back with a number of options, but what you see is the one that immediately grabbed the RoG team.

Here are some of the things we see in the logo…

* Our unseen foundation is God’s amazing GRACE

* a river bringing the life of the gospel to the Greater Capital Region

* the 4 ripples at the top catch the idea of the 4 major cultural currents (tribes/subcultures) in our area and church (boomers 55+, young white collar prof, blue collar Nascar/Harley riding x-hippies state employees, and genXers – and if you don’t feel you fit in any of these groupings, you still fit at The River of Grace!!!)

* the brush strokes that form the cross points to the artistic master piece of God, the beauty of his grace on display in Christ (a few have seen in this cross a hint of a bloody stiletto/knife, perhaps a reminder of the gruesome cost of our redemption)

* and the logo is not quite symmetrical because we want to do kingdom work outside the box of “institutional church” (OK, so we’re a bit ‘off centered’ or ‘on the edge’ or ‘not quite right’. We’ll accept that too).

Credit goes to God who is the source of all good human activity and Stephen Smith from www.cropmarksdesign.com . Thanks Stephen! Thank you God!