It’s not too late to practice radical generosity in our community! Help us reach our goal of 15,000 service hours and 50 tons of food for local food banks. Serving includes Love the Elderly, Operation Help a Hero and much more. For more information about filling a food bag and all our Fearless serve opportunities click here.
It’s not too late to practice radical generosity in our community! Help us reach our goal of 15,000 service hours and 50 tons of food for local food banks. Serving includes remodeling the Resource Center, volunteering at Sheepfold Garden and much more. For more information about filling a food bag and all our Fearless serve opportunities click here.
Work alongside our church partners as we build a safe place for children to cultivate their relationship with God while their parents attend church. Register online.
Sat, May 11, 6:30a-9p
Praderas, Mexico, $40 adults/$20 under 18 yrs
Join the coffee bar volunteer team and serve once per month on Saturday night or Sunday morning. For more information contact Kim.
Come meet the staff and volunteers. For the parents of students 5th grade and up.
Saturday, May 11, 7- 9p
Student Center, Irvine Campus
My parents are both celebrating their 60th birthdays next week. That’s a big one. A milestone. Similarly, a number of students are soon to graduate from one grade and enter into a new stage of education or life.
There are markers that mark significant shifts in our lives. Whether birthdays, graduations, job changes, moves, or any number of other transitions…notice what season you’re in. Celebrate what can be celebrated. Appreciate what can be appreciated. Affirm what you can affirm.
…and then prepare for the next season.
Our church is entering a new season. And as we do, we celebrate the fact that this last season has been amazing! In the past 10 months we’ve baptized 30+ people, seen almost 200 participate in Rooted, and our church has nearly tripled in size. God is up to something in HB!
Now, God’s made it clear to me and the Mariners leadership, that’s time for another big shift. We are actively looking for a new location to meet on Sundays. We have loved our time at the HB Central Library, but we’re already outgrowing it. I believe God has a new location in mind for our church. It will be our “next” but probably not our “last” location.
It will be a space we can call our own… a place we can invite our friends… a space for the whole family… a location that makes sense for what God is doing through our community.
I don’t know exactly where it is, or exactly when we’ll move into it… but change is coming. I’m telling you now, because it’s graduation season, and this is a graduation, or sorts, for our church.
And I’m telling you because I’m asking you to begin praying and preparing. Our best days are ahead of us.
Over the next weeks and months I’ll be bringing you more information. I’ll also be inviting you to celebrate what God has already done in our church, and then to anticipate what will soon be coming.
May God bless you and your family as you look to celebrate markers in your own life. See you Sunday!
Caleb
PS: please listen to or pass on the message from last weekend here.
“Jump nine times to the left!”
While there were so many great moments in last weekend’s service at Mariners MV, it is those words I’ll remember most vividly. Our guest from Kenya, Kanjii, challenged me to think differently about worship than I ever have. As we sang last weekend, it was wildly participatory, unashamedly celebratory, and fun. We sang and we worshipped. God was evident in a way normally inaccessible for the “rhythmically challenged” among us.
During the third week of the Christian? series, Doug called us to release the “act” of being a Christian and to embrace the “actions” of being a disciple. It is such an encouragement that so many of you are taking that idea seriously. People are signing up in droves to be a part of the Be Fearless campaign serve projects we initiated two weeks ago. If you’re still looking for a way to serve, check out howtobefearless.org/serve.
Now, as we turn to this coming weekend, we’ll confront one of the most significant obstacles to God-at-work in the world. It will be a great weekend to bring friends who are tired of the church, longing for a new message, and perhaps relate to this quote from Steve Jobs: “The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it”.
Excited about what God is doing in our midst,
Jeff
Overwhelmed…grateful…there are no words to capture the real beauty of The Church as we collectively raised well over $500,000 in just 2 weeks. These contributions will be distributed through our local and global church partners to bring positive, holistic change to the world. I love that hundreds of you were lining up on the patio to be a part of the “Be Fearless” project even after our goal was reached. You realized that the goal wasn’t just $500,000…the goal was for everyone, all of us, to Be Fearless and see what God might do. I can’t wait to hear the stories of transformation and see how God leverages and multiplies the time you chose to serve, the dollars you gave, and the food you brought to tangibly demonstrate love to the world around us.
Invite your friends and family to join us this weekend as we continue to hear from God, experience His church, and become all He created us to be.
Peace…
kyle
Catch the global vision for our partnership in Mexico and how you can support our partners there as they reach their local community. Questions?
Sunday, April 28, 12:30 – 2p
HB Central Library