Resurrection Families: Small Groups for the 21st Century

05/27/2026

If you are looking for someone with a vision for the next ten years, look no further.
The hope to lift up the Common Good as a motto for the U.S.A. in the 21st Century has lots of merit.
Take a moment to read this review and then decide if you are going to read the book.

“Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America” By Senator Chris Murphy (FSG, 2026) There’s a moment in reading Senator Chris Murphy’s…

06/16/2024

And so the next God-appointed chapter begins.
The journey to full affirmation of the Call, the growth, the faith and the hope was recognized by the California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist church.
Mark the day of Saturday, June 16 in the year of our Lord 2024 as a day when not only the angels danced in heaven, but we all danced with them here on the "Porch of Heaven."

06/15/2024

Way to go Zach!
We surround you with love, hope
and the promise of a life
filled with wonder and God's love.

Felicitaciones y oraciones
por un futuro lleno de maravillas
y del amor de Dios!!!!

The Villanueva-Romero-Van Hook-Adkison family (and many more) surrounds you with great appreciation for you and for what God has been doing in your life.

We celebrate a new generation stepping into the season of expanded growth, exploration, discovery and preparation for a hope-filled and blessed life!

Zachary Villanueva has graduated with honors in the Class of 2024 from International Polytechnic High School in Pomona, affiliated with Cal Poly Pomona.
He is enrolled as a Freshman at UC Berkeley in the fall!
What a glorious time of celebration and love!

06/08/2024

A great way to interact with your younger neighborhood!

04/06/2024

Is your UMC church exhausted by the Pandemic?
Wondering where all the people went? ...God is renewing hearts and giving new visions.....
Join this Workshop in Covina, Sat., Apr 13 8:30a-1p....
Find out more about it here: www.bit.ly/NourishByGrace

04/03/2024

It might make sense to you to think that an immigrant family travels thousands of miles, often on foot, in order to be a criminal in the United States.
But the research and studies prove otherwise.

Take a few moments to put yourself in another shoes and seek some compassion on an often maligned and misunderstood part of our society.
...And then pray for them and for all of us to find a better way to respond to the longings of the heart that leads families and individuals to take the risks of seeking asylum and migration to a land that stands for justice and freedom in the world.
Pastor Terry

Most immigrants come here to seek a better life and are highly motivated to stay out of trouble, write sociologists Steven E. Barkan and Michael Rocque.

02/18/2024

"Workism reigns in America,
and because of it, community in America,
religious community included,
is a math problem that doesn’t add up."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/christian-church-communitiy-participation-drop/674843/?paymeter=hard-gate-email-test-1&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cr&utm_campaign=The+Atlantic+-+Content+Testing&utm_content=The+Atlantic+-+Lookalikes+-+The+Misunderstood+Reason+Millions+of+Americans+Stopped+Going+to+Church+-+Workism&utm_term=The+Atlantic+-+Content+Testing+-+Lookalikes+-+5&referral=FB_PAID&fbclid=IwAR1cTDdJZZspzjqAqsLOfFxfu7GvhR5QwwC73WPigV0FPx6DgPHeEk2fhfQ

The defining problem driving people out is ... just how American life works in the 21st century.

12/14/2023

For a long time, my questions has been:
"Why do we wait for something that is already here?"
Is it an example of Christmas-time "parental control” to make us behave?
Is it just Tradition?

Maybe it's much more than all of that...

https://pastorterry.blogs.com/esoundings/2023/12/advent-already-not-yet-and-always.html