Missio’s artist circle is a space that encourages creativity for those compelled to create or curious to learn from and join other artists. Our theme for this time will be “community.” All creatives are welcome — musicians, painters, spoken word artists, designers, dancers, photographers, poets, chefs, etc. Come join us for a free time of creating, followed by a time to share our creations with each other! Some art supplies will be provided, but please bring the essential items you need to create (instruments, paintbrushes, canvases, notebooks, etc.) if you have them.

Location: Sami’s house (email wayne@missiocc.org for address)

Face to Face is a space where we encounter God intimately in worship and speak to God just as Moses did, as one speaks to a friend (Exodus 33:11). Come for a time of worship and prayer, as we spend some face-to-face time with God and pray for the needs in our community and in our world. Bring a friend!

This Face to Face, we will have a communal Scripture reading of the Joseph novella (Genesis 37-50).

Location: Wayne’s apartment (email wayne@missiocc.org for address).

SUNDAY, September 22, 2024

• 6:30 PM 8:00 PM

• 235 EAST HOLLY STREETPASADENA, CA, 91101UNITED STATES (MAP)

Missio partners with Centennial Place to host a monthly worship service and dessert club. We worship, listen to a practical and heart focused message, pray for each other, the community and world, and enjoy dessert, coffee and conversation around tables. If you’d like to serve with us this week, fill out this form and we’ll contact you with the guidelines and details

Face to Face is a space where we encounter God intimately in worship and speak to God just as Moses did, as one speaks to a friend (Exodus 33:11). Come for a time of worship and prayer, as we spend some face-to-face time with God and pray for the needs in our community and in our world. Bring a friend!

This Face to Face, we will be prayer walking around the Old Town Pasadena area.

Location: Jackie and Mack Robinson Statues (95 Garfield Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101).

SUNDAY, July 28, 2024

• 6:30 PM 8:00 PM

• 235 EAST HOLLY STREETPASADENA, CA, 91101UNITED STATES (MAP)

Missio partners with Centennial Place to host a monthly worship service and dessert club. We worship, listen to a practical and heart focused message, pray for each other, the community and world, and enjoy dessert, coffee and conversation around tables. If you’d like to serve with us this week, fill out this form and we’ll contact you with the guidelines and details

Face to Face is a space where we encounter God intimately in worship and speak to God just as Moses did, as one speaks to a friend (Exodus 33:11). Come for a time of worship and prayer, as we spend some face-to-face time with God and pray for the needs in our community and in our world. Bring a friend!

Location: Wayne’s apartment (contact wayne@missiocc.org for address).

July 19, 2023 12:00 PM July 20

• CRYSTAL LAKE (MAP)

Save the date for the 4th-ever Missio camping trip . Some of us will head to Crystal Lake early in the day on Friday to secure spots. If you need camping gear, we can help provide that. More details coming. If you'd like to help with planning or meals, please email amy@missiocc.org. 

The Race and Faith Narrative groups are a space to share, hear, and process our race and faith journeys. The groups will be small (four people max in each group) and will be meeting for four weeknights in June at various places in Pasadena.

Format: Each week, one group member will share their life story through the lens of race and faith. Other group members will hold space for the sharer in prayerful and attentive listening. After sharing, the group will have an opportunity to respond by offering anything they may have received from God or from their own listening to the story.

RSVP by May 31 here: https://forms.gle/Bzt4YpJbAjo5NyrZ7

Face to Face is a space where we encounter God intimately in worship and speak to God just as Moses did, as one speaks to a friend (Exodus 33:11). Come for a time of worship and prayer, as we spend some face-to-face time with God and pray for the needs in our community and in our world. Bring a friend!

Location: The Tang’s (contact wayne@missiocc.org for address).

Missio’s artist circle is a space that encourages creativity for those compelled to create or curious to learn from and join other artists. All creatives are welcome — musicians, painters, spoken word artists, designers, dancers, photographers, poets, chefs, etc. Come join us for a free time of creating, followed by a time to share our creations with each other! Some art supplies will be provided, but please bring the essential items you need to create (instruments, paintbrushes, canvases, notebooks, etc.) if you have them.

Location: Sami’s house (email wayne@missiocc.org for address)

Face to Face is a space where we encounter God intimately in worship and speak to God just as Moses did, as one speaks to a friend (Exodus 33:11). Come for a time of worship and prayer, as we spend some face-to-face time with God and pray for the needs in our community and in our world. Bring a friend!

Location: Wayne’s apartment (contact wayne@missiocc.org for address).

Missio partners with Centennial Place to host a monthly worship service and dessert club. We worship, listen to a practical and heart focused message, pray for each other, the community and world, and enjoy dessert, coffee and conversation around tables.

This week, we’ll have a special art focus. The residents are invited to bring their artistic creations to share.

If you’d like to serve with us this week, fill out this form and we’ll contact you with the guidelines and details.

Missio sponsors Science and Faith events 2-3 times per year on the Caltech campus, and the event includes a free dinner (for members of the Caltech community), a talk , and time for Q&A and dialog about the topic.

Pythagoras taught in 500BC what science now affirms: that the hidden order of the universe can be expressed through mathematics. Why is the universe intelligible to us in this way?

Our conversation will start with a talk from Dr. Alexey Burov, a physicist at the Fermi National Laboratory in Chicago, where he is employed as Senior Scientist. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and the organizer and chair of Fermi Society of Philosophy.

Register here

Face to Face is a space where we encounter God intimately in worship and speak to God just as Moses did, as one speaks to a friend (Exodus 33:11). Come for a time of worship and prayer, as we spend some face-to-face time with God and pray for the needs in our community and in our world. Bring a friend!

Location: The Tang House (contact wayne@missiocc.org for address).

What does it mean to be an Asian American? What are key aspects of the Asian American experience? What does it look like to be an accomplice to or a resistor against thestructures of white supremacy and racial stratification? Whether you identify as Asian American or not, join us for this 4-week discussion group as we unpack Asian American identity through reading Julia Lee's memoir, Biting the Hand.

For more information, email wayne@missiocc.org.

The resurrection of Jesus is the most significant event in human history. We get to celebrate Easter and invite our friends to consider "Reasons for the Resurrection" as part of a new sermon series called "A Reasonable Faith." So please pray for and invite an unchurched friend to Easter worship, followed by a free Panda Express lunch (RSVP using this link).

Calling all Missio men! As Jesus declared, “On this rock I will build my church,” we’re excited to climb together for our first men’s event this year. We’ll meet at The Post (1100 N Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103) at 10am on Saturday, March 16th. Cost is $20 for entry and $4 for rental shoes; students will receive $10 off the total price. RSVP here, and bring a friend!

Face to Face is a space where we encounter God intimately in worship and speak to God just as Moses did, as one speaks to a friend (Exodus 33:11). Come for a time of worship and prayer, as we spend some face-to-face time with God and pray for the needs in our community and in our world. Bring a friend!

Location: Wayne’s apartment (contact wayne@missiocc.org for address).

Attention college students! Save the date for a dumpling-making party, where we’ll wrap, cook, eat, and repeat (“The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat…”). Hosted at the Tang’s. If you need a ride/the address, email wayne@missiocc.org. Bring a friend!

Face to Face is a space where we encounter God intimately in worship and speak to God just as Moses did, as one speaks to a friend (Exodus 33:11). Come for a time of worship and prayer, as we spend some face-to-face time with God and pray for the needs in our community and in our world. Bring a friend!

Location: Wayne’s apartment (contact wayne@missiocc.org for address).

Missio Women’s Brunch - Early Galentine’s Day Theme: What's Galentine's Day? In the words of Leslie Knope, it's the best day of the year, where women come together to kick it breakfast style. We are excited to gather the women at Missio for our first official women’s event. We look forward to hosting these quarterly to build relationships among our women. So, save the date for Saturday, February 3 from 10:30-12:30 and the Tang’s home. Email Amy@missiocc.org for address and to RSVP.

Missio’s artist circle is a space that encourages creativity for those compelled to create or curious to learn from and join other artists. All creatives are welcome — musicians, painters, spoken word artists, designers, dancers, photographers, poets, chefs, etc. Our theme for this month will be Newness, and we will create around this theme. Come join us for a free time of creating, followed by a time to share our creations with each other! Some art supplies will be provided, but please bring the essential items you need to create (instruments, paintbrushes, canvases, notebooks, etc.) if you have them.

Location: Sami’s house (email wayne@missiocc.org for address)

Join us for weekly bible study with the residents at Centennial Place. We meet in the gym for fellowship, study and prayer.

In celebration of MLK Jr. Day, join us for a communal reading of Dr. King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail on Zoom, followed by a short discussion.

Zoom link: here

Face to Face is a space where we encounter God intimately in worship and speak to God just as Moses did, as one speaks to a friend (Exodus 33:11). Come for a time of worship and prayer, as we spend some face-to-face time with God and pray for the needs in our community and in our world. Bring a friend!

Location: Wayne’s apartment (contact wayne@missiocc.org for address).

We have been invited to serve at Centennial on the day before Thanksgiving. Union Station is hosting a Thanksgiving meal for the residents and we will come alongside them to serve and to spend time with the residents. This is a GREAT opportunity. The residents really miss having an actual meal together, and we have the chance to support this. We will also share a 15-20 minute Thanksgiving liturgy with a gratitude activity to do around the tables.

Since we’ll be helping with this event before Thanksgiving, we will NOT have our regularly scheduled dessert club, which would have been the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

If you would like to be part of this event, email amy@missiocc.org or use this link to RSVP:

Missio’s artist circle is a space that encourages creativity for those compelled to create or curious to learn from and join other artists. All creatives are welcome — musicians, painters, spoken word artists, designers, dancers, photographers, poets, chefs, etc. Our theme for this month will be Gratitude, and we will create around this theme. Come join us for a free time of creating, followed by a time to share our creations with each other! Some art supplies will be provided, but please bring the essential items you need to create (instruments, paintbrushes, canvases, notebooks, etc.) if you have them.

Questions? Email wayne@missiocc.org

Join us for our first Science and Faith Examined Event of this year.

Our mission with SAFE events: To create a collegial environment for the examination of faith and science questions at Caltech and beyond. We believe that the examination of questions of faith and science is absolutely vital to an open-minded and thorough search for truth.

Our monthly meetings follow a simple format: Eat a meal, listen to a talk by a prominent scientist or philosopher, and discuss in groups of eight to ten. Please register here so that we have an accurate count for pizza.

Our topic for this month is: Does technology help or hinder human flourishing?

Using curiosity to tune our practices as users and designers in a tech-centric world.

Josh Brake is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College where he has been on the faculty since 2019. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech and an M.S. and B.S. in Engineering with an electrical concentration from LeTourneau University. You can find more about Josh and his work at joshbrake.substack.com.

Kurt Keilhacker is a General Partner at Elementum Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund focused on deep tech. He has been a co-founder, CEO, or Board Director at several technology companies. . Kurt is a graduate of Wheaton College and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MLA from Stanford, and an MTS from Harvard.

Format:

So much of life is spent on obtaining what we want. But how do we know that what we want is actually worth wanting? What makes a life worth living? Is it power, faith, achievement, money? In this group, we'll explore and discuss these important questions, using the NYT's bestselling book, Life Worth Living. Bring a friend!

Time: Thursdays, 7:00pm-8:30pm

Dates: Oct 5-Dec 7

Location: Wallis St, Pasadena, CA 91106

RSVP here and contact: Wayne [wayne[at]missiocc.org] with questions.