FBCP Families | Weekday Wonders 12

Hi, Friends!

I’m sending you so much love and gratitude today. I’m honored to call you our church family and to be connected to you even though we are physically apart. Your children in particular are such precious gifts to our church, and we are praying for them and the future we are called to create for them. (And if you missed the behind-the-scenes photos of the Pentecost delivery, you can see some here!)

I imagine that you, too, may be receiving and finding a lot of excellent resources out there regarding anti racism and, in particular, the need to educate our children on issues of injustice. This email will share some I have found most helpful. If you have a resource you want to share, please send it on over!

Resource Hub for Parents

This resource hub (created by the baby food company Yumi) has books for kids by age, podcasts to listen to, videos to watch, and social media accounts to follow regarding how to teach kids about racism.

National Geographic's Article 

This is another article about talking to kids about race. It has good tips and resources to facilitate conversations about race with young people.

And here are some weekday wonders we are excited to share!

New Wonders

An Opportunity to Spread Love (and Stop by FBCP!)

Here's an opportunity we have to partner with The Giving Spirit! We have a yellow box set up right outside of First Baptist Church Pasadena for you to drop off a card. Read on for details!

In the coming weeks, The Giving Spirit is committed to serving 10,000 homeless lives by building and delivering new Health and Safety Kits to help protect 10,000 of our most vulnerable neighbors during this dangerous time. And just as with their traditional Survival Kits, each Health and Safety Kit will include a homemade “Friendship Card” – it’s often the first item that the recipients pull from the bag because it tells them just how much we care and gives them hope that they are not forgotten! This is where you come in. We would love your compassion and creativity to help create these cards and make sure they get to those in need. It’s totally safe and easier than you might think. Here's a video on how to make one and here are some written instructions. 

Highlights @Home Kindness Ideas

Carolyn, one of our longtime church members, shared this resource that is full of meaningful ways your kids can practice kindness at home. Let us know if you find ways to be nice and kind!

Sunday Specials

All-Church Zoom

This Sunday at 7pm, you are invited to gather on Zoom. Pastor John Jay will be available to hear your questions and concerns and to make space for us to share what we are feeling in this moment. The other pastoral staff will be there, too. The goal of this time is to ground ourselves in community and to open the dialogue in our church family in the midst of our pain and in our calling to be people who manifest God's Kingdom. We know we can't possibly answer or hold all the questions and thoughts of our community in one hour, so consider this is the beginning of an ongoing dialogue that we will continue to make space for in whatever means are available. Those who want to join can keep an eye out for a Zoom link we will send to everyone Sunday afternoon. Mary and I are also planning a time for parents to connect next week over zoom, so stay tuned for details.

Sunday Video

This week’s video may be short because we are working on some other ways to share love with our kids on Sunday. So, kids, there might be something in your parent’s email or text messages for you to see this week or next—make sure you ask them to keep an eye out!

Youth Hangout! 

Thank you to our youth who were willing to engage in really meaningful conversation last week regarding their own feelings and thoughts about everything going on. We are on for our regular noon call this Sunday, and here is the meeting link that you can use to hop on the hangout. We are working out the details for future in-person gatherings for youth (with safe protocols), so stay tuned for that.

Sending you so much love and virtual hugs!

With gratitude for you,

Pastor Lindsay & Pastor Mary

Mary

pentecost delivery dream team:

tariq | kathy | rene | rebekah | chrissy | chip | tasha | john | mady | bri

pentecost, one more time

Today I want to ask you to revisit the Sunday liturgy. The last week has been a lot to take in. It has been for me. I have felt full and joyful watching Barbara and other church friends leading a powerful prayer and protest gathering. I felt pain and indictment at the outpouring of grief from our black brothers and sisters. I have felt my sinfulness, and I have felt our promise. So when I was having a hard time setting down these burdens to rest, I slowed down and listened to our voices in the liturgy. I was again feeling grateful for our staff and their generosity. I needed Pastor Lindsay’s expansive imagination and David’s gentle soundscape. I was reminded of how Corrie’s voice carries her honesty and kindness. I heard the members of our scattered choir as one voice, one body singing. Angel thanked my wife and kids for their labors, which takes someone with keen attention to notice and acknowledge. I needed to hear Lisa invite me to see creation again in all its beauty. Atherton and Ruth’s neighbors still need prayer for safety, so I stopped to do that. Scripture read in the fullness of our diverse languages—how great a blessing is this! Pastor Gretchen teaching me, and her final words were like water. Our friend John whose arrangement of Holy Spirit, that felt like praise and prayer all at once. Paul’s hymn reminded me of how the precious few minutes we spoke each Sunday always lifted my spirits. Warren basically says in the credits what I am trying to say here, only better. So go listen again, or for the first time. You need it. I know I did.

Less without you,

Pastor John Jay

P.S. In our Sunday morning scramble, we missed an important element. We need your help blessing Temna.

 

SHARE A BLESSING WITH TEMNA

Use the form below and we will send your notes his way. And thank you for blessing our friend Temna.

 

Sunday Special | EP 12

Dearest Friends,

Today is Pentecost, when we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church. Normally this is a day of celebration—like a birthday party. Today, celebration doesn't really feel right. There is much to grieve and bear and cry out together. There is also much work to be done in the church. In a way, then, Pentecost comes at a fitting time—a reminder that we are called to live by the power of the Holy Spirit, not in our own strength, and that we are called to love all people. We are praying for the pain and suffering, and we pray for our children and youth who deserve a Kingdom vision for the world.

Today’s video is meant to be one of hope for our young church family members. It also has some special guests whom we were honored to have join us! We send you love and are with you in these moments. And, of course, we pray for a fresh dose of the Spirit.

After you watch the video, you and your family members can use the following discussion prompts and activities to apply the lesson.

Talk It Out

  • Recap: What was the gift given to all of the followers of Jesus?

  • Check In With Yourself: How does it feel to know that we can have the Holy Spirit to help us, too?

  • Wonder: What are you wondering right now as you think about the first Pentecost?

Apply It

  • To remember the Holy Spirit, you could cut out this flame dove and color it with reds and yellows or any color you want.

  • Make a wind twirl to remember how the Spirit came like a wind. Cut a piece of paper or craft foam in a circle then cut around in a spiral until you get to the middle of the circle. Decorate the spiral with anything you like. Then hang it up with a piece of yarn, and as it twirls in the wind, it will remind you that the Holy Spirit is present even though we can't see it.

  • Try learning how to say "I love you" or "hello" in another language! There are lots of resources online, or better yet, you could ask a friend who speaks another language. Then thank God that we have so many different languages and cultures in our world!

We are praying for you! Please remember to email/call/text with any prayer requests you have. 

Much love, 

Pastors Lindsay and Mary



A Call to Action

details of this event are still unfolding.

TEXT the word “PROTEST” TO 626-727-9498 TO RECEIVE UPDATES AND JOIN.

CANDLELIGHT PROTEST REMEMBERING GEORGE FLOYD and racial injustice

SUNDAY, MAY 31st @ 7PM

PASADENA CITY HALL (Meet near the Mack and Jackie Robinson statue)

Parking with validation is available at the Holly Street Parking Garage located directly behind FBCP. For families with young children, please see information at the end of this post.

As followers of Christ, we believe that we are all created in the image of God and worthy of love and dignity. We also believe we are all connected as the body of Christ. When one part of the body is in pain or is being abused, therefore, the entire body feels the injustice.

Across our nation many people are in pain for the unconscionable killing of George Floyd and so many others. We are in pain, too. Our leadership, in partnership with other local churches, has decided to take action to stand up against the injustice and racial violence that continues to be deeply entrenched in our country.

We invite you to join us Sunday evening for a night of nonviolent action at Pasadena City Hall. We will be wearing masks and observing physical distancing because this action is about the protection of life as sacred. We invite you to bring a candle (real or electric) to light.

Part of this action will be eight minutes of sustained noise to represent the eight minutes officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on George Floyd's neck, lynching him while his cries were ignored. Please bring something (bells, noisemakers, pots to bang, your voice to wail) to fill the air with sound during that time.

Will you join us and be counted as one who stood in nonviolent action against the brutality that continues to take the lives of our brothers and sisters of color and bind us to systems that are inherently racist and unjust? We believe this is our calling as people of God and followers of Christ. We hope you will join with us and say no more.

-Barbara Walker, FBCP Board Moderator

This event is now closed to youth and children because we would not be able to guarantee their safety in such a large crowd.


This event is sponsored by First Baptist Church of Pasadena, All Saints Church, Community Bible Church of Pasadena, Fellowship Church, First AME Church, First Congregational Church, First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, Lake Avenue Church, Knox, Missio Church, Missiongathering, Neighborhood Church, Pasadena Church, First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena, Pasadena Covenant Church, Pasadena Foursquare Church, Pasadena Mennonite Church, Rose City Church, Throop Unitarian Universalist Church, Unite Church, the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Greater Pasadena, the Clergy Community Coalition, and LA Voice.

 

Phenomenal Friday #22

If you are feeling weary, angry, and sad from the news of more struggle and violence with regard to race, then we are with you. Our leaders are in the process of planning specific ways for our community to process grief and stand for justice, and we will invite you into those events during the coming weeks. Today John Jay shares a cover of a song by Ben Harper called “Fight Outta You.” It’s a call to keep fighting the good fight.

And if you missed any of the encouragements this week, check out the mixtape below!

memorial day tribute

Here is Monday’s video, which was an offering from our friend Town Losey and the Ensoma Creative ensemble. We join with Ensoma in honoring and mourning those individuals who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

FBCP Families | Weekday Wonders 11

Hi, Friends!

You and your kids are on my heart extra this week with so much heavy news circulating. As a parent and as a pastor of young people with diverse backgrounds, I feel deeply the need for truthful dialogue, mutual support, and productive action against injustice. To that end, I am sharing some resources that may be helpful for parents especially as we seek God's own heart for racial justice in our world. If you have a resource to share, please send it! We will also continue to pursue these conversations and initiatives as a church family, so more to come.  And, of course, if you want to pray or talk with us, we are here for you. Sending you so much love this Friday.

Here are some other weekday wonders for you that we are excited to share:

New Wonders

KiwiCo Summer Resources

KiwiCo is offering some fun free resources to help fill summer weeks with innovation and enrichment. If you need something else in your back pocket to do with the kids this summer, then you might want to check it out!

Make a Zine

This article walks you through a fun little activity—making your own zine (a mini book!). They give you prompts to make a quarantine zine specifically, but you could also make it about anything you want. This is for all ages (as you will see in the example) because no one is too old to zine. 

Paper Airplanes

This site takes paper airplanes to a whole new level! It even includes instructions and planes designed for different qualities like distance, speed, and time aloft. Happy folding and flying!

Breathing Exercises 

This resource has some fun illustrated breathing exercises based on animals, and it's adorable! You could use this to talk to your kids about how important breath is to God—like when God breathed creation into being and how the Holy Spirit is often described like a breath. Breathing is such a good way to calm and center us in God's presence, too. (And adults, feel free to try these animal breathing exercises out yourself.)

Sunday Specials


Sunday Video

It's Pentecost on Sunday, and we can't wait to usher in the Holy Spirit with you! Lots of changes awaited the disciples that first Pentecost Sunday, and we are eagerly trusting God as we seek fun changes we can make during this time. See you soon!

Youth Hangout! 

We are on for our regular noon call this Sunday, and here is the meeting link that you can use each week to hop on the hangout. Games, jokes, smiles, and creative prayer activities await. Yay for our youth! 

Sending you so much ❤️and virtual hugs!

With gratitude for you,

Pastor Lindsay & Pastor Mary

An Update on Our Summer Plans

Dear FBCP Community,

I know many of you are curious what summer will look like at FBCP, especially the way we, as a congregation, will worship together while scattered and sheltered to various degrees. The leadership of FBCP would like to provide some clarity about the path ahead, while holding open the likelihood that plans will need to adjust as the situation with COVID-19 requires changes week to week. This letter has a lot of details, so take your time reading through it all. We want you to know what our plan is as well as all the considerations that are guiding our decision process. We also want you to know the values we are inviting you to hold, too, as we continue to seek what it means to be the church. All of this content will also be shared as an audio recording, so you have a choice of medium to engage it!

Let us address the big question you all have right away. In-person sanctuary worship will not resume for at least the duration of the summer. This decision is in line with health and medical guidance. Church gatherings are one of the most potent outbreak sites for COVID-19, so we feel a tremendous responsibility to adjust regular worship practices out of care for our vulnerable friends and front line health care workers. For now, our staff and leadership feel that the restrictive guidelines would cause more anxiety if we tried to open the building to worship as soon as possible. When we cannot touch one another, cannot sing, and cannot engage in the sacraments like communion or baptism, we risk undermining any possible social bonding with misunderstandings and increased anxiety. We will use these summer months to prepare our building to handle the many requirements of health and safety experts to ensure a safe worship environment. When we do begin meeting inside the sanctuary space again, our worship services initially will be very different from the services of the past. I’m sure each of you can understand the many safety practices that must be put into effect. This will be a complex and financially demanding process, so we want to take our time and get it right.

This is disappointing news, I know, prudence notwithstanding. We miss each other. We miss our building and our familiar Sunday rituals. I (John Jay) have done plenty of crying about how much loss and change we are all having to bear. So even as we believe this is the most responsible course of action, it still hurts. But the truth is that the experience we are all longing for would not be the reality waiting for us were we to return right now. The things we miss most on Sunday would still be absent under the restrictions and protocols that would have to be in place to worship safely. So, our plan is to find creative ways to meet our need for connection and community as best we can in other ways. With your trust and faith, we believe we can grow and thrive as the body of Christ. It is just going to look different.

So before we move on to the next set of practices we are planning, let’s all just sit with this news. Sanctuary worship will continue to be on hiatus through the summer. We pray that God would be with us in our loss, so that our pain does not shift to more dangerous emotions like anger or resentment.

Humans are experts at scapegoating our suffering onto some outside force. The trouble with the virus is how invisible it is, and how much it has disrupted what we can see. So in our pain, we get angry at what has been taken from us. And we wonder who to blame. During war-time, there is a clear enemy (whom we are commanded to love, not blame), but with the virus, we are beginning to war among ourselves. I am asking you to receive this news with a generous heart. We’ve outlined why we’ve made these decisions below and we’ve done our best to be prayerful and caring. We do want to hear different opinions and what you are feeling, but we need your help to hold this generous space for one another.
So what will we be doing? Glad you asked! Hint: it involves several possible ways to join together in person. Double hint: drive-in church, maybe.

Summer plans

Ongoing

We will continue creating our Liturgy For the Living Room as a collaborative community experience. These have been beautiful windows into parts of our church you might have not known before. We have been blessed by the various voices and wisdoms throughout our church and know you have, too. The way we use this liturgy will shift through the summer. More on that below.We will continue the daily encouragements and Connection Teams. Pastor John Jay will also increase his sharing on the daily audio so that we have as much transparency and guidance as possible from our staff. If you have wished you had more communication from the church, then the daily encouragement text group might be just the thing! To sign up for that, text the word “daily” to (626) 727-9498. Pastors Mary and Lindsay will focus on relational ministry initiatives for kids, including visits/activities outside following appropriate guidelines and leveraging technology in interactive ways.We will be releasing a regular Executive Report from the Board of Deacons and Pastoral Staff to inform you on the health of the church. This will include financial updates as well as the health of the pastoral staff and lay teams. We are creating a Covid Task Force that will advise the Board and staff with ongoing best practices and guidelines. Individuals on the team will include members of our community who have expertise in areas like medicine, risk management, mental health, and organizational leadership.

Month of June

  • Set up drive-in church equipment and test it out in preparation for a tentative July launch.

  • Pastor Gretchen is exploring some ways to host Liturgy listening groups. These would be outside with safety guidelines in place. This will start out small as we assess the viability of scaling it up.

  • Pastor Lindsay will start meeting with the youth in the green space regularly, similar to what used to happen on Sundays. Appropriate guidelines will be put into place and must be followed by all (distance, masks, etc.).

  • We are planning a version of Community Dinners but using outdoor backyards and physical distancing. Staff will handle details in conjunction with hosts. We will also use this event to stress test a more formal reorganization of small groups around a backyard physical distance model. With the ongoing changes to Sunday morning worship, we know there is a higher need for opportunities to connect with one another.

  • June 22-26: Pastor Mary and a team of local church leaders will offer Lightseekers Camp, a virtual summer camp option for kids entering 1st-5th grade in the Los Angeles region.

Month of July

  • July 5: Launch first drive-in church service in the Holly Garage, using a modified version of the Liturgy for the Living Room (Liturgy For the Parking Lot?). This would include an FM transmitter setup to send the signal simultaneously to everyone present. Pastors would be able to offer certain live elements, like a welcome, prayer and a blessing. Liturgy would be a mixture of prerecorded parts and live elements. We believe that gathering in our vehicles is a good balance of togetherness and physical considerations. Many of us are not used to interacting with lots of people after such a long time apart, and this drive-in model will give everyone a chance to slowly adjust to being back together and stay safe. We hope that listening through our radios simultaneously will create connections we have all been missing. Plus we can sing and not risk spreading the virus! There is a lot of logistical work on this idea, so we want to hold these plans lightly.

  • Week of July 12: Begin rolling out new home church groups based on backyard get together learning. Encourage people to meet twice a month in person outdoors.

  • Pastors Mary and Lindsay will offer additional summer camp options for kids that will include online and in-person opportunities based on updated safety and health recommendations.

Month of August

  • August 2: Return to the drive-in model having worked out issues from month one.

  • August 25: Board Meeting to reevaluate this model in light of changes to the virus and community transmission. Prayerfully, we will have a clearer understanding of the spread of the virus and where we are in our preparation for re-opening in-person services.

That is all of the “what/how” we know at this time. Now we want to share some of the values that guided these decisions and that we hope you will step into with us.

Shared Understandings and Values

Constant Prayer

We will do all things in the strength, power and assurance of Christ. We will not exist in fear, including the fear of judgment for prudent and patient decisions. We will ground all of our actions in prayer. We mean this. We will not talk about prayer, but actively engage God in discernment for how to be the Church of Christ in this moment.

Community as a body.

We will prioritize the community over any individual. Because we are a multi-generational and multiracial congregation, and because our church body includes people with various kinds of heightened risk factors, we need to advise for the good of the whole, not for the wishes of any subset of the congregation. We believe it will be important when we resume in-person worship to come back together in the fullness of our church body as much as possible. Therefore, we do not envision recommending any strategy that would deliberately create winners and losers in a reopening scheme.

Consider the health and well-being (physical and emotional) of all members.

We must recognize that we are balancing lots of tensions, including how the importance of physical distancing conflicts with the need for social connection. So we will continue to structure opportunities for communal support while accepting that the previous forms of our gatherings are on hiatus.

Medical and scientific guidance.

We will follow the science and medical community guidance, sifting that signal from the noise of politics. We will interpret this guidance with generosity, always placing our neighbor above ourselves. And we will also consider the needs and desires of those in our community who are at the front lines of health care. They have told us that our church's efforts to slow the spread of this disease has a material benefit on the stress and risk of their work. So we sacrifice in big and small ways with gladness for our brothers and sisters who must risk more than many of us.

Churches are not like businesses.

Most businesses that are reopening with success can serve customers in one-on-one or very small group settings, thus limiting the risk of exposure. Churches do not operate that way. We are about group functions and large-scale gatherings, where the known risk of accidentally spreading infection is exponentially higher. We are relational in our work, not transactional, and this makes a fundamental difference in how and when we can reopen.

We will embrace the wilderness.

Scripture has much to say about wilderness seasons when disruption and loss bring to light the things we have left untended in our lives. So, we want to make good use of this season to grow in ways only possible in such disruption. We believe God has things yet to teach us, and we want to be open to them. This may take the form of public lament, expanding our understanding of who belongs in our fellowship, creating new spiritual practices in our homes, and even simple things like polishing pews while they are not in use. Another way to say this: we will stay curious about what God is showing us, even and especially when things are difficult and unknown.

We will foster a spirit of generosity.

We want to increase our love in this moment; therefore, we must extend a generous spirit to one another. That looks like honest dialogue rooted in trust, assuming the best in one another. Your staff and board are eager to serve and lead you through this time of crisis. We will pray and encourage one another, even and especially when necessary changes are painful.

That is a lot of information for today friends. We know some of you will have questions, so we are available to have a conversation and offer clarity where possible. You can email our team by using the form found at the bottom of this page [insert link in email version]. This will allow our staff and Board to reach back out and keep the dialogue going. We are here for you! We will continue to find exciting, helpful, and hopeful ways to be God’s people, no matter the circumstances. We are compelled to find new ways to worship and care for one another, and we have all we need to stay in the light of God’s love. 

Less without you,

Pastor John Jay

P.S. A special thanks to churches and colleagues around the country who shared their processes and practices with us. Much of this language is evidence of a large community of churches spread around the country and world. We are in this thing together. 

Pentecost Delivery

Hi, Parents!

This Sunday is Pentecost, which is often celebrated as the birthday of the church. So, we have a crew who will be dropping off Pentecost party surprises for FBCP kids and youth at their homes that Sunday!

Just as with our Easter delivery, we are following strict sanitary protocol to ensure that we are delivering germ-free gifts. Masks, gloves, sanitizer, and proper "wait times" for items to sit out once they were delivered to us have all been part of our process.

Unlike the Easter delivery, our Pentecost delivery team will be coming in broad daylight so they can personally wish your family a Happy Pentecost and drop off a little something fun. They will still be making a no-contact delivery, and it will still be a surprise for the kids, but this time you can wave from a safe distance or from inside your windows! We are excited for some safe connection to happen on this special day.

Of course we wanted to give you a heads up and make sure we have your permission to deliver a little Pentecost gift to your child. If you do not wish for us to drop off anything, we understand.

If you would like us to leave a gift for your child, great! Please use the button below to confirm your address, any food restrictions, and instructions about the best place to leave it since this time it will be during the day.

Our hope is that your child continues to feel loved by the church as we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit and of one another. Thanks for keeping this a secret in the meantime—we clearly love the element of surprise.

Thanks for helping us love on your sweet kids. They are just the best!

With 💗,

Pastors Lindsay and Mary

Ensoma Creative Ensemble

Here is an offering from our friend Town Losey and the Ensoma Creative ensemble. Below the video you will find the lyrics and a word on this special project they made for this year’s Memorial Day. We join with Ensoma in honoring and mourning those individuals who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

All is well; safely rest.

God is nigh.

Fading light dims the sight,

And a star gems the sky,

Gleaming bright.

From afar,

Drawing near, 

Falls the night.

Day is done.

Gone the sun from the lakes

From the hills, from the sky.

All is well; safely rest.

God is nigh.

———

All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.

Today we are reminded to take time to acknowledge the immense sacrifice of those who gave their lives for our freedoms, who exchanged their futures for the future of their country and those who live freely in it. 

All of us at Ensoma would like to give our gratitude and honor to those who have given the ultimate sacrifice, and we could think of no better way to express this thanks than through this brilliant arrangement of Taps, arranged by Ken Neufeld.

In this video, alongside our singers, we have also decided to showcase service members dear to us expressing their respect to those who they have lost. If you are comfortable and would like to share, we would love if you could post in the comments the names or a photo of those dear to you who have served, so that we may extend our gratitude to them as well.

———

Music by Ken Neufeld

Lyrics attributed to General Daniel Butterfield (1862)

Directed by Townsend Losey

Production by Josh Munnell

SOPRANO

Gabrielle Losey

Lindsay Farrell

ALTO

Wendy Taquino

Katherine Velez

TENOR

Josh Munnell

Joshua McGowan

BASS

Seth Velez

René Ruiz

Sunday Special | EP 11

Happy Sunday, Friends!

This week's video features upside-downing, hopping, and a word on waiting patiently. Best of all, it starts with a very special guest from our church family! We also have a little bit to share about the concept of change. We hope you enjoy (and that you are ready to jump around!). 

After you watch the video, you and your family members can use the following discussion prompts and activities to apply the lesson.

Talk It Out

  • Recap: After Jesus ascended, what did the disciples have to do?

  • Check In With Yourself: How does it feel to have to keep waiting to go back to church and do other things we miss?

  • Wonder: What are you wondering right now as you think about the words of the psalm that tell us to be strong and brave? 

Apply It

  • Make your own hopscotch so that you can actively learn and say the memory verse from Psalm 27:14.

  • Think about all the things in life that are good and require us to wait (like growing a tree or waiting for something to bake in the oven!). How can waiting be good for us at times? Draw a picture of something that was worth the wait to remind you to hang in there when waiting gets hard during this season.

  • Consider something you could change right now that might help you and your family during this season. (It's okay to change things up while we are waiting!) Maybe you want to start something new in your daily routine, like adding a certain time to pray each day, helping in the kitchen, trying a new exercise, spending more time outside, taking more deep breaths—it could be a small change or a major change! Of course talk this over with a parent first to make sure your idea won't be unhelpful to anyone in your home.

 We are praying for you! Please remember to email/call/text with any prayer requests you have. 

 Much love,

Pastors Lindsay and Mary

In Pasadena as it is in Heaven

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