Welcome to the Community Church of San Miguel de Allende

An Interdenominational English-Speaking Christian Church serving the greater San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico area

Our mission is to create a welcoming, inclusive Christian Community which seeks to provide spiritual fulfillment in a joyful, giving environment

Every Sunday · 11:00 AM · Prolongacion Callejon de Alcocer #24

Everyone Is Welcome Here

Our congregation comes from diverse spiritual backgrounds — Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, Catholics, and many others. What unites us is a commitment to open, joyful worship and genuine community.

No membership required. No prior church experience needed. Just show up.

Open to All

You don't need to be a member of our church — or any church — to worship with us or participate in communion.

Rooted in Community

At least 50% of all donations go directly to community outreach projects in San Miguel de Allende.

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Many Traditions, One Table

Our Ministers-in-Residence are ordained in Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, UCC, Episcopal, and other traditions.

Thin Spaces

You are welcome exactly as you are.

What a joy it was to celebrate World Communion Sunday with you. There is something so very special about a congregation like this, where people “cross borders” to come together. Thank you for the spirit of hospitality and “bienvenida” that you are cultivating here at the Community Church of SMA.

Thank you also for allowing me to share a little from my many years of celebrating communion “across the U.S.-Mexico border.” Here is a brief clip of First Lady Pat Nixon inaugurating the site called “International Friendship Park” in 1971. And if you’d like to meet the kind of person I took such joy in welcoming to the Border Church, here is my brief interview with a young “Dreamer” named Maria.

This coming Sunday we will continue working our way through the gospel of Matthew, while more and more contrasting Matthew’s way of talking about the gospel with the way that Paul talks about things in his letters to the Philippians and Thessalonians.

According to Matthew, Jesus deployed a parade of parables to try to explain to people what the Kingdom of God would look like. (This week’s parable from Matthew 22 concludes in what may seem a shocking fashion.) Matthew’s Jesus seems insistent that people understand what will be required of them to enter the kingdom.

Paul, meanwhile, is less interested in what Jesus taught and more interested that people experience what he experienced on the road to Damascus– the “risen Christ.”

Some people – many, in fact – have gone so far as to argue that Matthew and Paul are teaching different religions. A more orthodox Christian view would be that they were proclaiming the same gospel from different vantages. Which vantage resonates more powerfully with you? Are you a “Matthew Christian” or a “Paul Christian”?