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,...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Familia, We’re entering into a beautiful time of year aimed at re-turning our hearts directly toward Christ. Over the next 6 weeks, we’ll be hearing 6 different Testimonios from those in our church community. Each person will center a Psalm that holds both Lamentation and Celebration. And as they do,...