EP Reflections
Reflection: What Would Jesus Do?
Jesus said, “Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor John 12:26 When I was younger, the cool Christians wore bracelets with the letters WWJD, for “What Would Jesus Do?” The simple...
Reflection: Sharing Your Wisdom
The apostles and the elders met together to consider this matter. After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said . . . Acts 15:6-7a I wanted to start by giving thanks to our staff and the leadership of Tapestry Youth Collective for their columns these past...
Stated Clerk’s Corner September 2019
First on my items of the day is to remind everyone that the second and last Review of Minute Books and Registers for the year is coming up on October 5, 2019 at Calvary Presbyterian Church, South Pasadena beginning at 10:00 am that morning and expected to end by noon....
Reflection
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. John 13:34 God calls us to love one another, and while sometimes this commandment leads us to do good things for others, at other times it leads us to...
Students Serve Across Los Angeles
This summer 30 teens and leaders from Presbyterian churches throughout the San Gabriel Valley and Riverside gathered daily for a week to become the hands and feet of Christ in service to others. During these five days, those who participated made a difference in the...
Reflection: Staffing Update
Last week we included a couple of small staff-related announcements, and I wanted to expand on them today. The first is the next step in Twila’s decision to move to part-time in 2020, and to focus on the bookkeeping function that has grown so large with the increase...
Reflection
“Two are better than one because they have a good return for their hard work. If either should fall, one can pick up the other. But how miserable are those who fall and don’t have a companion to help them up!” Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10 The Bible makes it clear again and...
Reflection: Living Matthew 25
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will...
Reflection
“Buenas noches,” said the voice on the other end of the phone. It took me a minute to recognize the polite and timid tone. It was Jose*, a young man whose family I have become close to at church. “Sorry to bother you this late,” he continued, “but I wanted to talk...
Executive Presbyter
Wendy has a creative, spiritual and prophetic way of seeing the world that offers deep insights for practical living. She believes the Church is renewed from the edges, not the center, when those who’ve been marginalized are embraced.