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For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, \u201cAbba! Father!\u201d it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ\u2014if, in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.<\/h2>\n

Romans 8:14-17<\/em><\/h2>\n

This week, we are embarking on am ambitious season of meetings in San Gabriel Presbytery. On Wednesday evening, we begin our annual leadership training event, WinterFest, which continues on Thursday and Friday evenings. On Saturday morning, we have a brief Presbytery meeting, followed by the plenary session of WinterFest. Then, a week later, on February 10th<\/sup>, we begin a Presbytery-<\/p>\n

wide Lenten series, \u201cBecoming the Beloved Community,\u201d which will meet on Tuesday evenings from February 13th<\/sup>-March 19th<\/sup>. After a break for Holy Week and Easter, we will have a closing session on April 6th<\/sup>. I strongly recommend you participate in any and all of these events. Click HERE<\/strong><\/a> to register for the Presbytery meeting, and\/or WinterFest. And for the Lenten series, we have heard that folks are having a hard time committing to every session. We invite you to come to the first sessions if you can, and see how it feels. And though we are hoping folks will make this commitment as their Lenten practice this year (and we hope the small groups will get to know each other better each time they meet), we are no longer requiring people to attend every session.<\/p>\n

As I think about some of our upcoming activities, they offer glimpses of life as joint heirs with Christ. As we take on the identity of being children of God, who become our family members?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some of our WinterFest sessions help us expand and deepen our vision of who is in Christ\u2019s family:<\/p>\n