In January 2020, we started as a home church in a living room in Pasadena. Pastora Inés set her abuelita’s mesa (table) as we served warm black bean soup and rice. Our worship began with breaking bread together first. We would later learn that the table would become our most disruptive and life-giving sacrament.

Not long after, the global COVID-19 pandemic interrupted our in-person gatherings, so in the Fall of 2020, we pivoted, adapted, and launched our Zoom church online. We intentionally set a digital table, establishing beloved community from our living rooms. In the Fall of 2021, we entered our first meeting space at MissionGathering, a beautiful historic property, and we would gather this way for nearly 2 years as the world was returning to in-person meetings. While we experienced so many meaningful and healing Spirit moments in this space, the church building was sold in the Summer of 2023, so we had to pivot yet again. In Fall 2023, we migrated to Pasadena Mennonite Church and found a home in their unused sanctuary. This space would prove to be another marker of God’s faithfulness, as we began to cohabitate beautifully with the two other congregations that we share the building with: Conexión Pasadena and Pasadena Mennonite Church. We honor and celebrate this partnership by co-creating bilingual joint services every 5th Sunday, as well as being intimately connected in justice efforts in our city. We love these collaborative and vibrant relationships that we affectionately call the “Casa Grande familia.”

We turned 5 years old in Fall 2025! This is a huge accomplishment in the life cycle, establishment, and sustainability of a new worshiping community. For the past five years, we have walked together to unlearn, relearn, and reclaim our spirituality. We have unlearned harmful theologies that we inherited from previous church contexts that distorted our views of a loving God, ourselves, and one another. We have relearned how to connect with God, with ourselves, and with one another as the community of saints. We welcome curiosity, doubts, and questions about the ways the Bible has been weaponized to harm diverse marginalized communities. We have reclaimed rituals, spirituality, testimonios, storytelling, art, and poetry—ways of being and belonging from the many different multi-ethnic backgrounds and diverse walks of life represented in our church familia. We are always being and becoming. Here you belong before you believe.