Welcome,
Pastor Julio C. Peña's April 2025 Message
“Journey to the Cross”
We are making slight changes to this year’s Holy Week services, instead of having services on Monday and Tuesday, I decided not to have it this year, and instead I will have a Saturday evening service. We will have our Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Resurrection / Easter Sunday service. Also, we will have an Easter Breakfast, but no Easter Egg Hunt.
The Journey to the Cross begins with our Fellowship Morning Prayer or Fellowship Evening Prayer on Wednesday, April 2nd it will follow with worship service on Sunday, April 6th the 5th Sunday of Lent in which we will look at John 12:1 – 8 as we see “Mary anoints Jesus” for the Preparation of the Journey of the Cross. It will continue to Tuesday, April 8th with a Spiritual Preparation of Our Journey to the Cross in our Holy Disruption Conversation at 7pm. We then begin on Sunday, April 13th with Palm Sunday on “Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem” on how we look at “All for the Wrong Reason.”
We continue with Maundy Thursday as we “Focus” on 1 Corinthians 11:23 – 26 “The Institution of the Lord’s Supper” and on John 13:1 – 17 “Jesus washes the Disciples’ Feet.” And the next day on Good Friday we will together look at “Jesus Loves You” in John 18:1 – 19:42 “Final Day as Fully Human.”
The Great Vigil Easter special service is something new in which we will be outside with a fire pit and read scriptures together, pray together, witness to each other how Jesus has been with us in our journey to the cross. (Weather permitted)
We will end our journey to the Cross with fellowship, having Easter Breakfast and it will be followed by having a Resurrection / Easter Celebration Worship Service with the title of message; “Do You Believe the Good News” which will come from the scriptures of John 20:1- 18 and Acts 10:34 – 43.
Jesus Has Risen!! Jesus Has Risen Indeed!!!
REAL TALK: “Let me Be Clear”
“You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.” I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.” (John 15:16 – 17)
If you have been hurt by others, priest, pastors in a church and/or congregation, I want to apologize for all who have hurt you, I also want you to know that I have also been hurt by people, leaders, pastor, priest in a church and/or congregation. Even with all that God has called me to be an Ordain Pastor in a congregation.
Our mission states, “Where ALL are welcome…to worship…to serve…to seek peace…to Be. We will begin to live this mission openly to this community, to this city and to our Lord and Savior the Jesus Christ.
I am an ordain Pastor of the Presbyterian domination, I also worked as a Social Worker for almost 30 years and am also a Spiritual Leader.
I will be spreading the Gospel of the Radical Jesus Christ that welcome’s all people that rejected by the world. Jesus is open to love, peace, hope, joy, compassion, mercy, Grace and so much more. Jesus is against hate and sinners that are destroying others; because individuals are different or because of the judging the sins of other or compare to their own sins.
“Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3) I believe we are all sinners; we are all a “Hot Mess.”
We are looking at making some significant changes within ourselves, within our ministry, and our facility. We want to be open to all people and that means to dismantle all “ism”, become Holy Disruption to the system of ism and hate.
We want to welcome the LGBTQIA+ community, families of all kinds, couples of all kinds, all ages, all culture/race, all sinners, all who seek peace, forgiveness, spiritual growth, to be relationship with a community that will pray for you and support you in the best way that we can with truth in love, which means this pastor and hopefully the people in this congregation will not enable you, but help strength you. If you have been left out or not welcome into a place of worship and you want to be part of a new way of fellowship, ministry, worshipping and spiritual growth. If you are feeling that urge, then come check us out. Come visit us in-person, it is very different than streaming.
“For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11)
Blessing and peace to all
Pastor Julio
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