Words and Music by Richard K. Avery and Donald S. Marsh, 1972

REFRAIN: I am the church
You are the church
We are the church together
All who follow Jesus, all across the world
Yes, we're the church together.

1. The church is not a building, the church is not a steeple,
the church is not a resting place, the church is a people.

2. We're many kinds of people, with many kinds of faces,
all colors and all ages, too, from all times and places.

3. Sometimes the church is marching, sometimes it's bravely burning,
sometimes it's riding, sometimes hiding, always it's learning.

4. And when the people gather, there's singing and there's praying,
there's laughing and there's crying sometimes, all of it saying:

5. At Pentecost some people received the Holy Spirit
and told the Good News through the world to all who would hear it.