The Church We Hope For first began as a house church in Northeast Pasadena in January 2020. And the first thing we did together was share the table and eat a great, big pot of Nicaraguan Black Bean soup. We believe these shared tables formed the foundation for our church at large.
As the pandemic forced us to pivot, we found our way in the Fall of 2020 toward launching our church as an online community, what we began to call our Zoom Living Rooms. We never could have imagined that this season of life together would foster such familia and cultivate such community among us. But our Sunday mornings services online from Fall 2020 to Winter 2022 helped knit us together into the people we now are.
We now worship together on Sundays at 4 PM at Pasadena Church of the Brethren. And though we will be forever grateful for the spiritual intimacy we found in our online space together, we couldn’t be more thrilled to see one another in person these days, week in and week out.