New Spaces

This space is dedicated to Moms of Young Children. It is a place of encouragement where we support, pray, intercede for, and simply care for one another. It is an online space, so women from all parts of the world might join. The unique needs of young moms require a unique kind of support - one that lets one know they are not alone and that there are other women who are going (or went through) similar challenges, survived, and continue to walk with God.


This is a fellowship designed for seniors to get out and enjoy the world with locals and through reflecting their experiences online. Primarily for folks over 55 years old, but others are welcome as well. We will plan trips to senior centers to pray and support them as well as meet needs in our local areas. We may schedule trips to different parts of the world -- both for fun and for ministry purposes as well.








In this space, we seek to grow closer to God through contemplation. The contemplative tradition seeks to experience God, not through things, but through emptying ourselves, our minds of all things. Centering prayer is one prime example of this type of contemplation, as well as the fourth stage of Lectio Divina, contemplatio.

In this space, we will meditate on Scripture, on creation, on spiritual literature among other holy things. Our desire is to grow closer to God through the practice of meditation. For Christians, meditation is within the kataphatic tradition, focusing on filling your mind and heart with holy things. This is not to be confused with contemplation, where one sits before God in emptiness (the apophatic tradition).










In this space, we create a yearly devotional rhythm based on historic days of the Christian year. Beyond Advent, Lent, and Ordinary Time, we will celebrate the season of Pentecost, as well as many saints days and feasts. The focus of the space is to have a deeper spiritual walk with God through celebrating these special times and seasons.








In this space, we will explore how it is we might grow closer to God through writing down our words. We will explore various kinds of spiritual journaling and read, from time to time, the spiritual journals of Christian writers of the past and present. The focus will be on our own spiritual practice before God.



In this space, each person will have an opportunity to experience God through communion. Those who are ok with receiving communion online may do so, and others who desire to experience communion through their own tradition in a face to face context may choose to go that route. Either way, there will be opportunities to experience communion (Eucharist, Lord's Supper) in a number of ways and to share our experience together.


In this space, we will practice fasting from a number of perspectives -- Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, and Emerging perspectives, both from West and East, and the Global North and South. The focus on the group is experiencing fasting together. We will have a group journal where we share our experiences of God and self through fasting. The group will get going when we have a certain number of members.


When I started my DMiss at Fuller, Ryan Bolger introduced me to the concept of the "flipped" classroom. Here is a helpful graphic from www.knewton.com that describes how the "flipped" classroom is different than a traditional one.
In the traditional model, lecture is given in class and homework is taken home. In the "flipped" model, the lecture is viewed at home and homework is done together in class. This would not have been possible even a few years ago but the prevalence of social media networks and connected devices allows this to be a (more…)

Weʼre passionate about converting entrepreneurial vision into thriving new communities of disciples. Our sole focus is to cultivate and accelerate the work of Christ-following leaders.
- We nurture growth. We are not the right fit for everyone. We cross boundaries of denomination, culture, style, and worldview without hesitation because of our larger vision.
- Weʼre unafraid to face local cultures in creative, insightful ways. We are serial entrepreneurs.
- We are a perpetual start-up. We will never stop encouraging leaders with intensity and zeal.


Beginning in 2014, Altadena Free Methodist Church was created to share the gospel of Jesus with the city of Altadena and with the world!
Our intention is to join God’s purpose through Jesus Christ, “All of these new things are from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and who gave us the ministry of reconciliation. In other words, God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ, by not counting people’s sins against them. He has trusted us with this message of reconciliation.”
This intention (more…)




Note: This group was for Advent 2014. Feel free to enjoy the art and conversations are always open.
Advent is the four-Sunday period before Christmas Day. It marks the start of a new Christian Year and is traditionally used by the Western Church worldwide to reflect on the coming of Christ. Advent – ‘to reach for’, ‘to come’ – has to do with waiting and hopeful expectation. Advent is the time Christians look forward: to celebrating the birth of Christ and also, ultimately, to the return of Christ.
Waiting through Advent is far from passive. It is also far more than the (more…)

