Ebenezer Church, San Diego

4 hours ago

We freeze these gatorades and our friends who are themselves still experiencing homelessness take them on the streets to serve their friends and pray for them. It is a beautiful, dignifying entry point ministry
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So yeah. Tithe in gatorades. Bring a lot of it. More important make a commitment to bring gatorade once a month or something ... See MoreSee Less

Ebenezer Church, San Diego

1 day ago

A Quick Story by Pastor Noel
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Last night I was sitting in a session (online) where my friend Sarah Strong was leading a workshop for a group of local college students that we hired for the semester to help families in our neighborhood navigate education in the Covid season.

Sarah, a mathematician by trade, was teaching the tutors on how to think about math and how to tutor it. Yes. Math at church.

Then it donned to me that many kids in our neighborhood make conclusions about self-worth based on whether they can or cannot understand this subject.

So it is not a stretch then to say math is an everyday theological issue. And that this and and reading have to be part of our neighborhood advocacy.

Then it donned to me that brilliant minds like Sarah often don’t have space within church discourse to offer their finest ministry.

It’s incredible. Sarah spoke in that room with such passion as if she has been having a conversation with the Lord about math. And I think it is because she has.

Today I stand amazed imagining what we as a community can become if we give ourselves permission to rethink church. If church became less of a weekly meeting and more of ordinary radicals who are inspired by the spirit of the Lord to stand in our communities’ most critical gaps.

And you know math is a critical gap.

And no. This does not mean that we have to start a Christian school because leaving families behind who need us to live our most creative lives would be unchristian.

Bye for now.

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