Realizing Revelation 7:9

Episode 8: Relating to God Differently: Moises and Sheila Bojorquez

Mark Fields — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 17:24:00 +0000

This week we connected with Moises and Sheila Bojorquez! They are the founding pastors of a New Worshipping Community called Next Generation Church LA. They share with us their journey to church planting and the unique journey of establishing a new church identity that honors their Latino Church heritage and makes space for people to “relate to God differently”.

Episode 7: Elder Mark Fields and Rev. K.C. Wahe, “Facing the Tension”

Mark Fields — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 04:55:00 +0000

Listen to Mark Fields and K.C. Wahe have a live conversation about the work that Mark and our Presbytery are doing around integrative diversity.

Episode 6: Rev. Rich Poole Race, Justice, and Revelation 7:9

Mark Fields — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:30:00 +0000

Welcome to the Realizing Revelation 7:9 podcast a Presbytery of San Fernando production. Realizing Revelation 7:9 means we are awakening to new meaning in Revelation 7:9 and we are working to make Revelation 7:9 a reality.

This week we get to hang with Rich Poole, the pastor at Kirk o’ the Valley in Reseda and Faith Presbyterian in North Hollywood. Rich shares some personal stories about race and justice and we end up in a lively conversation about internalized racial oppression and how the opposite of racism toward one culture is not racism toward another. Then, Rich shared what stands out to him about Revelation 7:9.

Episode 5: Dea Jenkins The Work of Gospel Diversity

Mark Fields — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:56:00 +0000

Welcome to the Realizing Revelation 7:9 podcast a Presbytery of San Fernando production. Realizing Revelation 7:9 means we are awakening to new meaning in Revelation 7:9 and we are working to make Revelation 7:9 a reality.

This week we get to hang with Dea Jenkins, the Director of Inbreak, a New Worshipping Community of the Presbytery of San Fernando. Dea shares her personal story of coming aware of racial differences as a young adult in New York and how Christian theology played a part in the ways we experience racism in America today. We talk about the difference in personal discrimination and systemic racism. Then, Dea graciously reminds us that we all start from different places and expands our interpretation of Revelation 7:9 to remind us we have a grace-filled responsibility to join in the work of Gospel diversity, right where we are.

Episode 4: Rev. K.C. Wahe A new cultural identity

Mark Fields — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:08:00 +0000

Welcome to the Realizing Revelation 7:9 podcast a Presbytery of San Fernando production. Realizing Revelation 7:9 means we are awakening to new meaning in Revelation 7:9 and we are working to make Revelation 7:9 a reality.

We have all been shifted in many ways by the pandemic. This week we get to hang with Pastor K.C. Wahe of First Presbyterian church of Burbank. K.C. Shares with us about waking up to a new cultural identity during covid and a few of the times he felt like the “token person of color” in leadership spaces.

Episode 3. Rev. Christina Chambers - It's Okay to Change On This

Mark Fields — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the Realizing Revelation 7:9 podcast, a Presbytery of San Fernando production. Realizing Revelation 7:9 means we are awakening to new meaning in Revelation 7:9 and we are working to make Revelation 7:9 a reality. I am your host Mark Fields and this week we get to hang with Reverend Christina Chambers of First Presbyterian Church of Granada Hills. She generously shares with us her awkward, scary, and embarrassing diversity journey of growing up a white woman in Houston and the events that shifted her perspective. She shares how her theological interpretations shifted and how she sees God inviting us to a much more diverse picture of community in Revelation 7:9.

Learn more about our goals for gospel diversity and how you can get even more involved by checking us out here https://sfpresby.org/training/

Episode 2: Dr. Tamisha Tyler - Hospitality Is Not Static

Mark Fields — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the Realizing Revelation 7:9 podcast, a Presbytery of San Fernando production. Realizing Revelation 7:9 means we are awakening to new meaning in Revelation 7:9 and we are working to make Revelation 7:9 a reality. This week we get to hang with Dr. Tamisha Tyler who is the Assistant professor for Theology, Culture, and Theo-poetics at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond Indiana. She has been a starter and discerner in our presbytery with Cyclical LA and joins us to share her story of race and faith. She shares a bit about the energy it takes to constantly translate in predominantly white spaces. Then we reflect a bit on Jesus and what it costs to create a dynamic hospitality as opposed to a static one.

Learn more about our goals for gospel diversity and how you can get even more involved by checking us out here https://sfpresby.org/training/

Episode 1: Rev. Dr. Juan Sarmiento - A Call to Gospel Diversity

Mark Fields — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the Realizing Revelation 7:9 podcast, a Presbytery of San Fernando production. Realizing Revelation 7:9 means we are awakening to new meaning in Revelation 7:9 and we are working to make Revelation 7:9 a reality. This week we get to hang with Rev. Dr. Juan Sarmiento, the Executive Presbyter of the Presbytery of San Fernando. Juan shares with us his personal journey of diversity as an immigrant. We get to hear how it feels for him to navigate matters of race and diversity in the presbytery. Then we talk about the absolute awe and wonder that true diversity creates in worship.

Learn more about our goals for gospel diversity and how you can get even more involved by checking us out here https://sfpresby.org/training/

Realizing Revelation 7:9 Trailer

Mark Fields — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 20:17:00 +0000