This week’s Lenten Offering is written by Inés Velásquez-McBryde, a Nicaraguan pastora and co-lead pastor of our church familia. This week we invite you to engage with God through Visio Divina. In Visio Divina, we use our senses to engage what God might be speaking to us through an image....
This week’s Lenten Offering is written by Nicola Patton, a Ph.D. student at Radbaud University and member of our church familia. Years ago, we hosted a weekly small group in our house. Sometimes I dreaded the evening depending on how much we’d let the house go in the six days...
Happy New Year 2023! It was wonderful to see many of you at our Zoom Living Room on New Year’s Day. We had a wonderful contemplative time saying goodbye and honoring what our bodies remembered about 2022 and entering the new year with hope in our hearts! Thank you to...
Dear familia, As I read Serena’s last e-mail to her Hospitality Team, I was moved by her recollection of some holy moments in the life of our flourishing community. I asked her permission to share a few highlights as we pause and thank God for bringing us this far! Serena...
Dear familia, We hope that the sermon series “Honest Waiting” has invited you gently into slow rhythms of watching and waiting, alone and together. The past two weeks I have enjoyed leaning into the Honest Invitation in Zechariah’s song to receive knowledge of salvation, light in the darkness, and let...
Familia, We hope that whether you had sweet potato or pumpkin pie, tres leches, or ube pan de sal as desserts this week, you pulled up a chair around a table with friends, chosen family, or biological family and laughed and made memories. I know I’ve been cheering with my...
Familia, The leaves are turning in some of the streets in and around Pasadena! The beauty of light and dashing colors reminds me of the dancing Holy Spirit moving through our lives to invite us into joy. I have had much joy as I have visited several of our small...
Dear familia, This past month our church familia officially launched our first-ever community groups and monthly familia hike! We hope and pray that the Spirit will continue to move among us as we work to cultivate a safe and trusted community. As we grow in our love for one another....
Dear Familia, I would like to begin by saying “muchas gracias” for your recent support, prayers, and love sent my way as my father, Pastor Ali, suffered a medical episode last Sunday just a couple of hours before I had to show up to preach at our church! Thank you...
Dear familia, We can’t wait to see you all this upcoming Sunday! As we continue being moved by the Spirit, God moves us towards each other in food and fellowship, as well as in outward expressions of our internal faith! Here are a few exciting things we’d love to share...