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....
Monday / Palm Sunday Reflection Be ready for the Presence. As you stand at the entryway of this journey towards Easter, grab a word or image that stood out to you during our worship gathering that you want to carry with you this week. Be attentive to how that word...
This week’s Lenten Offering is written by Mondo Scott aka Armando Canchola-Scott, a creative director and member of our church familia. On Sunday, I lead our church familia in a time of prayer around the themes of fasting and feasting. I shared how fasting and feasting can be seen in...
Church Hike! Our March Familia Hike is Saturday, March 25th at 10 AM. This Griffith Park trail is the epitome of LA “hiking.” A well-defined trail with spots of hidden treasures and plenty of Selfie opps from the Observatory to the Hollywood sign. We’re kicking up a notch with this...
This week’s Offering poem is written by Salena Marie Scott who is a poet and member of our church familia. “May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole” — 1 Thess 5:22-23 Years ago, I had endured enough trauma with severe illness...
This week’s Lenten offering was written by Paula Jireh Sampang, a Master’s student at Fuller Seminary and part of our church familia. These first couple weeks of Lent I have been thinking about what repentance means for me at this time. What do I need to repent from? What do...
Sacred Pathways Today! Join us over your lunch break at 12 PM today (Friday, March 3rd) for a Soul Care workshop called Sacred Pathways. I hope this shared space serves as a conduit to connecting with God. And in the ever-present pathway toward knowing ourselves – and our God –...
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...
Rhythms of Justice Looking at Rhythms of Justice as a church familia has been such a meaningful way to enter into the new year together. We especially encourage you to join us this Sunday as our dear sister, Glendar Haskin, brings the Word! She last preached in our church nearly...
What if we are The Church of Faded Dreams? I know I know. It doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as The Church We Hope For! But hear me out. On Valentine’s Day, I was nerding out and reading a theological commentary on Love as it traces its way...