Pasadena Mennonite Church
Sunday Morning Services are Currently Meeting Online at 10:30am.
Please contact: office@PasadenaMennonite.org for Zoom info, or contact a PMC friend for login.
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Welcome to Pasadena Mennonite Church!
We are an Anabaptist community of people from throughout the Los Angeles, CA area—meeting in Pasadena.
We start gathering for fellowship around 10:00am, with worship beginning at 10:30am.
As a Mennonite community we value Christ centered-worship, community, and active peace-making.
We are convinced that Jesus came to turn this world upside-down, and invites us to follow.
Mennonite Church (USA) Statement on Racial Injustice
This is not a time for Mennonites to be the quiet in the land. We call on our congregations to lament and pray together. More than that, we encourage you to stand in solidarity with communities of color, walk alongside them and, indeed, be led by them… Apostle Paul said that our struggle is with powers and principalities. Those powers and principalities are embodied in systems such as white supremacy, institutionalized violence and police brutality that hang over our heads and attack the humanity of black sisters and brothers, as they have for generations.
On the Road to Restoration
Isaiah 61 involves some of the same geographies that are in the news today: Iraq, Israel, and Iran. Iraq roughly correlates with the ancient nation of Babylon. In 597 BC, Babylon invades Judah — the remaining southern kingdom of Israel that hadn’t yet fallen. Judah becomes an occupied territory. Ten years later Jerusalem is leveled.
In 539 BC, Persia defeats Babylon, and the exiles of Judah are allowed to return home — to a homeland that has been destroyed. Yet there is joy in returning. And into this homecoming, Isaiah speaks good news — of promise to these poor returning home, and many yet to come.
Preparing the Way of the Lord
Advent is a season of preparation — doing the work of getting ready for the Lord to come. Yet this year preparing for advent has felt really tough, and the stakes for what’s coming have never felt so high.
This year has been hard. Yet Isaiah 40:26-31 points us toward God and his strength and presence in our weariness. Our hope is in midst of the messiness of human weakness.
The Prayer of Advent
In many ways, Advent is a prayer. We come to this time amid our own trials, amid a world of uncertainty and hurt — real pressures and hardships — but we also come with an expectation and a hope. We come bearing one another’s burdens and we come in anticipation of a coming Savior. It is a season long prayer — a meditation that is both lament and hope — existing in tension. But it is a moving into hope.
The Responsibilities of Sheep
On November 22nd, Sarah Fuller engaged the lectionary passages of Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 and Matthew 25: 31-46. In these passages, it seems that there are some responsibilities that belong to sheep|people and some that belong to God|the shepherd. So how do we work for good, in obedience — while leaving judgement to God?
Contact Info
Pasadena Mennonite Church
Meeting at Pasadena Church of the Brethren
1041 North Altadena Drive
Pasadena CA 91107
office@pasadenamennonite.org
+1 626-398-8224
Sunday Services begin with fellowship at 10:00am —
Worship begins at 10:30am