Can a home-cooked meal bring healing to your sense of identity, family, and faith? . My wonderful conversation with Grace Hwang from ka:ll community (https://www.kallcommunity.org/) explained how it certainly can and how they do it. . Follow ka:ll on Instagram @ka.ll.community Follow James from PASTORIA on Instagram @jamesfrompastoria . Get to SIMMER at https://thesimmer.co . --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pastoria-the-podcast/message

If we want to get serious about success in 2024, it starts with a simple way of evaluating 2023 with some honesty. James' way is to listen for the voice inside that has been afraid to speak up... because it wants to tell you the truth. -- Get James' zine at https://pastoria.co/elixir -- Follow James on Instagram at https://instagram.com/jamesfrompastoria --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pastoria-the-podcast/message

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When the options were not looking so good for Joseph, his spouse, and their son, something new (and, uncomfortable) was offered. They decided to do it. Today, he is an author and pastor living in #CreativeCourage Book: When the Saints Go Flying In by Joseph Yoo Tiktok: @joseph.yoo Church: Mosaic Church of Pearland, TX Host: James from PASTORIA Topics: Christianity, Church Planting, Books, Texas The #CreativeCourage Campaign is the official podcast of ⁠PASTORIA⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pastoria-the-podcast/message

"As a parent and an immigrant, if I were Mary or Joseph, I would have thought that I had failed Get the Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dM9xzk Follow on Facebook: https://facebook.com/pastoria.co Learn about Dreamday: https://livedreamday.com #easter #lent #church #sunday #bipoc #immigrant --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pastoria-the-podcast/message

Minister Diane Ujiiye is a Co-director of API RISE (www.api-rise.org) - Her background includes over twenty years of working  in the fields of substance abuse, mental health, HIV/AIDS, gang  prevention intervention, and re-entry in multi-ethnic LA County. She has  conducted civil rights and public policy advocacy for Asians, Native  Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in California, resulting in the  successful passage of state legislation. She serves as board president  for Healing Urban Barrios, a gang intervention and re-entry program in  East Los Angeles. Diane served as an appointee to the California Highway  Patrol (CHP) Citizens Oversight Committee after the 1992 uprising and  as chair of the California Commission on Asian Pacific Islander American  Affairs. She has facilitated an array of group processes designed to  address the causes and symptoms of division. Diane is  currently building solidarity with the Black community in Los Angeles  with mostly formerly incarcerated API’s and Blacks. She holds a Master  of Divinity (Mdiv’) degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pastoria-the-podcast/message

Eugene is the Founder of New Wine Collective (newwinecollective.org). Eugene has been in church ministry for over 25 years. After spending 17  years helping to build a church from a young start up into a large  established church with multiple locations, he discerned it was time to  step outside the familiar in order to reimagine church and spirituality  from the ground up. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pastoria-the-podcast/message

An in-depth conversation about DEI work and the Church with Sophia Agtarap: a pathfinder, a 1.5 generation Filipina American and intercultural communicator who values curiosity and wonder. She works alongside communities in the areas of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, as they do the brave and hard work of imagining the world they want to build, and animating others to join them in creating a more just society  where all may thrive. Get to know Sophia at https://www.sophiakristina.co --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pastoria-the-podcast/message

Lisa Wright is our guest for this episode - she is the CEO & President for Inland Southern California United Way and Inland Southern California 211+ located in the Inland Empire.  Her greatest mission in life is to help make her community a kinder place to live, work, learn and grow. . This episode is sponsored by Soultel - soul & other work essentials - learn more at https://staysoultel.com . . Follow @flawxdotco on Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pastoria-the-podcast/message

James asks Josh: "Are you a master of divinity?" Josh Lopez-Reyes is Executive Director of Echo Park Immigration Center (EPIC) -- epicla.org --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pastoria-the-podcast/message