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Easter weekend at OSC was special in more ways than one. It was our first ever hybrid (both online & in-person) Easter gathering, and our first in-person Easter service since 2019! Altogether we estimate roughly 200 people (94 in person & 102 online) worshipped together from at least 4 counties — San Diego, Orange, Riverside, and Ventura Counties.
Community Groups are a new ministry launching soon at OSC where people from the same neighborhood or city come together regularly for dinner, dialogue about faith, and a shared mission for impacting their community. It’s great way to build friendships, grow in your spirituality, and make a difference for good. Just like OSC at-large, our Community Groups will be guided by our three core values: inclusive community, relational spirituality, and organizing for justice.
We are excited to return to in-person worship gatherings this Sunday, Feb 13th at 11 AM. As we suspected, Omicron cases are dropping as quickly as they rose. This week, new COVID cases in the country were down to 200,000 from the high of over 1 million just a few weeks ago. As we suspected, that puts us back down to the levels of the third week of December.
I hope your Christmas and New Year holidays were blessed and that you were able to connect with friends, family, and find rest. Even through were are not gathering in person due to the latest COVID surge, there are lots of opportunities for you to connect with others at OSC, worship together, and explore how to lean into our spiritual community together. Check out the opportunities below and get signed up for something today!
At The Oceanside Sanctuary we connect with lots of people who have been in controlling, harmful, and even abusive religious spaces. Often people are done with they way they were shamed and manipulated, but they still find value in their faith. That’s why we are so excited to launch our new therapeutic group experience called, Processing Religious Trauma.
As we near the end of the second year of a global pandemic, I am amazed by the resilience, passion, and impact of this church. I can honestly say that, at least for the 6 years I have served as pastor, we have never been healthier than we are today. The end of the year means it’s time for our year-end fund drive…
unday, Nov 28 we begin Advent! This year, The Oceanside Sanctuary is inviting you to join us in reading through an excellent new Advent devotional called, Traveling With Our Ancestors by Disciples of Christ pastor, activist, and theologian Sandhya Jha, who writes in the in opening note:
