About Waterloo.church
Waterloo.church lists congregations across Waterloo so that anyone looking for a church can find one this Sunday, with the facts they need and a fair description of what each church believes.
Why it exists
Jesus told his followers that they are the light of the world, and that no one lights a lamp to hide it under a basket. This site is a small lamp. Many people who are looking for God, or finding their way back to him, begin by searching for a church nearby. We want that search to end at the door of a local congregation, where they can hear the good news of Jesus Christ and be welcomed by his people.
Who we are
We are Christians who build websites for the kingdom of God, and we do it not for profit. Nothing here is for sale, there is no advertising, and no church pays to be listed. Our aim is simply to glorify God and to serve his church.
We are Reformed Christians ourselves, and we say so plainly because it shapes the site in one visible way: on most pages you will find an invitation to visit the local Canadian Reformed congregation, written for people coming from the tradition the page is about. Everything else, from service times to the descriptions of other churches, is meant to be accurate and useful whether or not you ever take us up on it.
How the listings are made
Each entry starts from the church's own website and the directory of its denomination, and every page we relied on is named under "About this listing" on the church's page. We link those we can: where a church's own site offers no secure connection, we print the address without linking it, rather than send you to a page your browser will warn about. Service times change for holidays, summer and special occasions, so please confirm with the church before you go.
How the descriptions are written
Each tradition is described the way its own members would describe it, drawing on its official statements of faith, and comparisons with Reformed churches are written to be fair to both sides. If we have got something wrong about your church, we want to know.
Corrections
Use the suggest an edit page, or the form at the foot of any listing. Church offices are welcome to send updated times, a photo we may use, or a description in their own words.
Photos and maps
If a photo of your church should be replaced or removed, tell us and we will do it. Where a church has no photo yet, a drawing of its kind of building is shown instead. Some map coordinates were looked up with Nominatim, using data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Privacy
We count visits ourselves, to learn which pages are useful. There are no cookies, nothing is stored in your browser, and no analytics or advertising company is involved.
A message sent through the suggest an edit form is read only by the people who run this site. It is kept with your name and email address only if you gave them, it is not connected to the visit counts, and we will delete it if you ask.
Sister sites
The same team publishes church finders for nearby towns: