2026 North County San Diego Voter Guide is up!
Justice Works organizes for compassionate policy that affirms dignity and promotes the flourishing of all people. This guide asks the same five questions of every candidate on your November 3 ballot, from Congress down to city council: affordable housing, food security, police accountability, LGBTQIA+ rights, and immigration.
As we step into a new year at The Oceanside Sanctuary and a renewed vision and mission, you are invited to lean into community and help us cultivate a Christian spirituality “reclaiming its calling to be known for love, liberation, and the celebration of God’s image in all people.”
Christian spiritual practices are often imagined as private disciplines: my prayer life, my fasting, my giving, my relationship with God. But across time and culture, Christianity has always used a shared vocabulary: we pray, we break bread, we fast, we baptize, we lament, we confess, we celebrate, and we give…
Many of you know we (Jason and Jenell) will be embarking on a planned sabbatical leave next summer, from June through August and that we applied for a Lilly Foundation grant to cover some of those expenses. Many of you helped us with that grant as writers, editors, and contributors to our public feedback process. Unfortunately, we received news last week that we were not selected as a grant recipient.
For more than 150 years, this church has been part of the Oceanside community. Eight years ago, we reimagined the legacy of “First Christian Church of Oceanside” and birthed “The Oceanside Sanctuary,” a community committed to following the way of Jesus and reclaiming Christianity for love and liberation.
