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 Jen Arias for speaking and inviting us into courage. Thank you Sandy Schaupp for honoring the tension of vulnerabilities of things we needed to release and leave behind. Thank you Pastor Bobby for a catalytic body scan that engaged our senses, our body, and our memories to be moved into joy, dance, and hope!
Back to in-person Sunday & new sermon series
This Sunday we will return to our regular in-person services at our usual time 4:00 pm PST! I (Inés) will be preaching on Rhythms of Joy as we return to where we left off in the story of the magi in Matthew 2:9-13 and celebrate Epiphany!
This month we will enter into a mini-sermon series that will carry us all the way to Lent. This sermon series is called “Rhythms of Justice” as we extend MLK day into a month(ish) and lean into the rhythms that sustain justice, such as joy and sabbath, in order to plant gardens of resurrection, in our hearts and in our communities. This month is also Human Trafficking Awareness Month and we have ways to engage our familia in a justice initiative. More details soon!
Hiking Day tomorrow
Jen and Serena return with another exciting hike after getting rained out last week! The hike will be tomorrow, Saturday, January 7th at 10:00 am. We’ll be hiking the 4.4-mile out-and-back Eaton Canyon Trail. If stream crossings and light rock scrambling are not your style, you can easily shorten this hike to avoid these obstacles.
This “relatively easy” hike is family and dog friendly, so invite your 2-legged and 4-legged loved ones. You should prepare to get wet during water crossings as the streams have swelled with the rain. We will meet in the church parking lot and carpool over together. Please RSVP for the hike here.
I look forward to seeing many of you in person after the Christmas break! May this find you rooted and grounded in the soil of God’s own love for you. May your bodies be attentive to the rhythms you need to sustain your life, your work, your faith, and your calling.
Gracia y paz,
Inés