Discover Our Story

Our team

Meet our pastoral staff team. Brooke and Jeff have been married for 23 years and have been partners in ministry for the last 17 years .They are a team like no other, amazed by God and excited & grateful for His leading to plant a church in Urbana, MD this fall.

Brooke Palmer

Lead Pastor

Brooke lives in Clarksburg, MD. Before planting Belonging Community Church, she was the Associate Pastor at Journey's Crossing Church Germantown, MD. Brooke has a Master of Ministry degree from Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, MN. She is a wife, a mom of five children, and is forever a Detroit Lions football fan.

Jeff Weldon

Next Gen Pastor

Jeff resides in Clarksburg, MD with Brooke and their amazing family. He is a graduate of Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, MN and brings 17 years of experience leading in ministry to families and their children. Jeff, too, has been a lifelong Detroit Lions fan and likes to end his Sunday morning by leading the room in a "Go Lions" chant.

Our Mission

Belonging and Purpose in God's Story

At Belonging Community Church, our vision is to help every person discovers they have a place of belonging and purpose in God’s story. We believe that every person is important and uniquely designed by God for a purpose. Through our services, programs, and outreach efforts, we strive to help individuals discover their identity in Christ and live out their God-given purpose.

Join Us

Become a Launch Team Partner

If you're looking to be a part of joining in and helping to begin to create a place where everyone can belong, grow, and make a difference by following Jesus, we invite you to join us. Come as you are and experience the love and grace of God. Together, we can discover our purpose in God's story, prepare for our fall launch of BCC, and impact the world around us.

Find Your Place

Our Core Values

Jesus is our message, our mission and our hope.

At the center of all that we do, we first remember Jesus. We remember the way He lived, the way He loved, and the way He sacrificed. Because of this we model Jesus, carrying hope into the places that we live, work and play.

Jesus welcomes you as you are
and so do we.

Jesus welcomed people before they even believed in Him. Come as you are and know that you are free to encounter the God who loves you, without trying to fit it in to anyone’s box or expectations.

Our strength lies in our differences, not our similarities.

God’s Kingdom includes men and women of every race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. We know that living out our mission as a part of a diverse community has greater impact.

We are better when we serve Jesus together.

We are all on even ground, partnering together by using the gifts and resources God has given us. Our impact locally and beyond grows exponentially when we work as partners rather than as individuals.

Jesus gave us everything so we give back to Him freely.

Everything we have comes to us from the God who created us - our time, our talents and our resources. Following Jesus means surrendering all that we have for the purpose of bringing others to Jesus.

A life lived following Jesus is marked by daily growth and transformation.

Jesus meets us just as we are right now, and He loves us too much to leave us there. When we follow Jesus, we begin to change, day by day, to look more like Him through the work of the Holy Spirit.