Weekly Updates June 2, 2023

Familia, I hope your Sabbath Sunday last weekend was refreshing and restoring. And that your heart is ready to Be With once more. Community is calling and we’re longing to worship together again! While we were originally planning for our series, The Story of the Spirit, to simply take us...

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Weekly Updates May 26, 2023

No church service this Sunday On the last day of creation, God created the last space and filled it with rest. Even God’s self saw the need for space to commune with God’s self and nature. Our church’s communal rhythms of rest have become a regular spiritual practice as we...

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Weekly Updates May 12, 2023

Racial Justice Class Racial Justice has been a pivotal pursuit and pillar of this church since Day 1. One of the vital ways our leadership has been formed over the years has been through attending and leading racial justice workshops in various communities all across the country. And so, familia,...

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Weekly Updates May 5, 2023

Help Kids Get to Camp! This Sunday we’ll have the opportunity to hear from our very own Noemi Tovar & Caleb Parker, both on staff with OC United. For those new to this incredible non-profit, OC United aims to “step into the gap for those who have experienced the breakdown...

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Weekly Updates April 28, 2023

Four Quick Things for you on this Friday! 1. The Story of the Spirit Pastora Inés officially kicked off our Spring Eastertide Series last Sunday. And it was a Word, y’all! There was so much Spirit-spoken wisdom in that sermon! If you missed it (or you just want to catch...

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Weekly Updates April 21, 2023

One of the most meaningful moments in my week takes place each Sunday with a rotating small group of folks who circle up in the sanctuary at around 3:45 PM. Anyone who’s signed up to volunteer that day joins in – and anyone else who happens to be around at...

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Weekly Updates April 14, 2023

Familia, As we move out of Lent we invite you into Eastertide! Eastertide, or Paschaltide, is the season of 50 days beginning on Easter Sunday and concluding on Pentecost Sunday. During this time we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the time he actually spent on earth appearing to...

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Yellow flowers and a blue sky

Week 7 Lent Offerings: Eastertide Joy

This week’s last Offering is written by Inés Velásquez-McBryde and Nicola Patton. It culminates our Lenten season and postures us towards Eastertide. Thank you for journeying with us familia! 1 We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes,...

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Stations of the Cross - A Holy Week Film

Week 6 – Lenten Offerings: Stations of the Cross

This week’s Lenten Offering is a short film created by Bobby Harrison and scored by Joel Yoshonis & All Shores Music. On this Holy Wednesday, we invite you to watch a 12-minute short film we created that walks through each of the Stations of the Cross (filmed at Mater Dolorosa...

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Holy & Whole

Weekly Updates April 1, 2023

It is hard to believe that not only is April already upon us, but also Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday! 2023 has been a hazy but beautiful blur of days – so many rainy ones with sunshine solely sprayed and sprinkled here and there, like flickers of light amidst all...

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