We’re excited to announce that we have a “New Meeting Location!” Join us for our first worship service at our new location on Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 10:30am!
Address: 1403 N Lake Ave, Pasadena 91104
Updates
We’re excited to announce that we will now be returning to Cleveland Elementary for our Sunday services beginning on March 2, 2025 at 10:30am!
The school district has closed all locations for the next 6-weeks due to the fire and so our normal worship services at Cleveland Elementary are canceled. The Chapel has opened their doors for us to meet for our Sunday service at 3pm. 61 N Hill Avenue Pasadena, CA 91106
WEEKEND SERVICE UPDATE
As a reminder, the school district has closed all locations this weekend due to the fire and so our normal worship service at Cleveland Elementary is canceled. The Chapel (61 N Hill Avenue Pasadena, CA 91106) has opened their doors for us to meet for our worship service on Sunday, January 19 at 3pm.
Our church is partnering with two other churches (Grace Pasadena & The Chapel Pasadena) to gather donations for those in our community who have been displaced by the fire and are desperately in need of basic necessities.
As one small step to help meet these needs, we are working to coordinate our efforts to gather & deliver donations. Please drop off items at The Chapel any time between 9am-5pm January 12-17. If you are interested in volunteering, we would like to have people sign up in shifts to be at the Chapel to receive and sort donations. We are also looking for people with trucks who can help deliver donations. Please sign up here to volunteer.
Our hearts go out the many families affected by the fires throughout our community. We are praying for all of those who have lost their homes, been displaced by evacuation, and for our first responders.
Our service at Cleveland Elementary is canceled. The Owens’ family have opened their home for an improvised Church Fellowship which includes lunch for all who are able to attend from 11am-2pm.
We’d love to have you join us for our Christmas Candle Light Service taking place on Sunday, December 22, 2024 at 10:30am!
Click the link below to listen to our Christmas sermon series titled, “Light in the Darkness.”
We're excited to be participating this year in Door of Hope's Christmas Around the World Celebration, a fun day of food and games for some of Pasadena's most vulnerable families and children. There's still time to volunteer to help at our table this Saturday, December 14th! We will be running a tamale booth from 11am-2pm. Contact Jill Cucullu to pick a time.
This past Sunday, the Lord used Tim Owens to bring a word of encouragement to His Church! Click the link below to listen to the latest sermon which has an emphasis on the word encouragement:
hub.sgcpasadena.org/sermons/the-priority-of-encouragement-tim-owens-acts-201-12
This Sunday we have the privilege of having Lynn Baird as our guest speaker. Lynn served as a pastor at our church for over thirty years and retired, with SGCP, in 2021. He and his wife Terri relocated to Gilbert, Arizona and are now attending Center Church.
Join us for our annual Good Friday Service as we remember and celebrate together the very center of our faith - the cross of Christ.
Once again, Sovereign Grace Church will join together with The Chapel here in Pasadena to commemorate the crucifixion of our Savior.
This is an opportunity to display our unity with other Christians as well as celebrate our new life in Christ's which was only made possible through his death on the cross.
The Good Friday Service will be held at The Chapel at 61 N. Hill Ave. in Pasadena on March 29th at 6pm.
Hope to see you there!
You are invited to join us for an Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday, March 31st at Sovereign Grace Church of Pasadena. Bring your kids! Everyone Welcome!
Location:
We meet at the Cleveland Elementary School. Address: 524 Palisade St. Pasadena, CA 91103
Hope to see you there!
We want to set aside some regular opportunities for prayer. Twice a month on Tuesday nights. This is for moms of all ages and stages in their motherhood: pregnant moms, moms of infants, toddlers, school age kids, teens, college kids and adult children as well. I’d like to use these times to pray for each other too: for strength, grace, stamina, for equipping, for courage and for faith to help us navigate all stages of motherhood.
Over the last several months, I’ve had many conversations with mothers and I kept hearing the same thing: these mothers’ hearts were burdened for their children. As I’ve meditated on this, I’ve come to realize that the answer is the same for all seasons of motherhood - it’s applicable to every stage of motherhood no matter the age of our children.
So, what’s a mother to do?
1. REMEMBER AND FIGHT: (God is great and awesome )
Nehemiah 4:14 gives us some instruction: “Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your (husbands) wives and your homes.” Remember that God is great and awesome - now fight.
2. RECOGNIZE: (our weakness and God’s provision)
We need to recognize that as mothers, we often feel weak - but that’s ok. God has a solution for that!
2 Cor. 10:3 helps us recognize our weakness: “For though we are weak in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh.
2 Cor. 12:9 -God reassures us: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
3. RETOOL: (replacing carnal weapons with spiritual)
2 Cor. 10:4 -The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.”
What’s our spiritual weapon? Prayer.
“Prayer is a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of his redemptive purposes in earth.” - Jack Hayford
4. RESOURCE: (The Word)
Isaiah 55:11 tells us God’s word will not return void - but will accomplish what God desires and will achieve his purposes. If we are to pray God’s will, we need to pray His Word over our kids with an eye toward God’s redemptive purposes in their lives.
An InvitatioN
With these things in mind, I’m inviting moms to join me in praying for our children - in fighting with the weapons that God has given us. Fighting for our kids, our families and our homes.
You’ve all heard of Tiger Moms and Helicopter Moms, right? They use carnal methods of fighting for their kids. Let’s retool and instead employ the spiritual means for our warfare that God has provided and be PRAYING MOMS!
Details:
These will be at my house on Tuesday nights from 7-8 pm. Address: 45 E. Mariposa St, Altadena
Our first prayer time will be Tuesday night, Jan 30th
The second will be Tuesday night, Feb, 20th
Thereafter, we will meet the 1st and 3rd Tuesday nights of each month for March / Apr / May
RESOURCES:
While these times will not include any teaching, here are some helpful books I’d like to recommend that can assist you in our prayer time:
Take Words With You by Tim Kerr (Kindle version)
Praying the Scriptures for Your Children: Discover How to Pray God’s Purpose for Their Lives by Jodie Berendt
Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Children: Trusting God with the Ones You Love by Jodie Berendt
Hope to see you there!
Our Bridge Course starts next Wednesday! Please take some time this week to invite friends, family, or co-workers to join us - and consider coming with them!
CLICK HERE for the link to the Bridge site to find out more information and to sign up.
Discipleship is a normal part of our Christian walk. It’s how we help each other mature in our faith and walk in obedience to Jesus. We are starting a Men’s Discipleship group at the beginning of the year and we invite you to join us as we look at what it means to grow as godly men in our relationships, character, souls, and ministry. Come for fellowship, accountability, encouragement, friendship and building one another up in the faith. Sign up below!
WHEN: Saturday mornings - beginning Jan 6.
WHAT TIME: 8:30-10am
WHERE: At the church office
BOOK: Disciplines of a Godly Man by Kent Hughes (Click for link to Amazon)
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!
We are moving and will now be meeting at Alma Fuerte School at 524 Palisade Street, Pasadena 91103
We have been praying for an opportunity to move our meeting time back to Sunday mornings and after a year and a half at the Pasadena Senior Center, the Lord has opened up a new place for us to meet. The new time will be Sundays at 10:30 am. Parking will be on the northwest corner of the campus. There will be signs to guide you to the meeting room.
The director and staff at Alma Fuerte School have been very welcoming and are eager to build community with us. We are looking forward to developing a good relationship with the school and the neighborhood in the coming months. Stay tuned for future ministry opportunities!
We are having a church work day on Saturday, Dec 2 from 8am to 4 pm. We will be doing some sprucing up and light chores along with some landscaping in preparation for our first Sunday service at the new location the next day.
We’ll be starting the day with prayer at 8am. Coffee and bagels / donuts will be served in the morning. Join us for any part of the day as you are able. We will also be serving lunch. After lunch, ministry teams will be setting up and running through Sunday morning routines in order to get familiar with the new premises.
Please join us - this is a great time to build together as a church body. Working together is a great friendship building and bonding experience!
We want to extend our condolences to Janice Vessey whose father, Daniel Fuller, passed away on June 21, 2023. Below, please find three articles on Daniel’s life and legacy.
John Piper wrote an article on the Desiring God site titled: My Most Influential Teacher: A Tribute to Daniel Fuller. Please take a moment to click HERE to read about Janice’s father.
An article in the Pasadena Star News: Remembering Daniel P. Fuller: Honoring a Legacy of Scholarship and Vision at Fuller Theological Seminary
And one more from the Gospel Coalition: How Three Friends Dropped Out of Princeton Theological Seminary, Joined the Inaugural Class of Fuller Theological Seminary, and Changed Evangelicalism
On Sunday, May 21st, we will be ordaining Tim Owens as an Elder/Pastor. This is a culmination of over 2 years of praying, planning, and preparation. We are so grateful to God for orchestrating this entire process.
Our Sovereign Grace Regional Director, Eric Turbedsky will be preaching and officiating the service.
If you’re wondering about what Ordination is or why it’s important, we’ve included a section from the Sovereign Grace Ordination Guide below for you to read.
Please join us Sunday, the 21st at 3 pm as we officially welcome Tim as a new Pastor/Elder. There will be a celebration dinner after the service. Please come!
“God’s Word presents the role of a pastor as a high calling and privilege. There is a unique authority and responsibility entrusted to Christ’s under-shepherds. Every pastor is to be a skilled teacher of Scripture and must be capable of feeding the flock from God’s Word. Every pastor is also a governing elder in the affairs of the church, a spiritual overseer, a guardian of sound doctrine, and a refuter of false doctrine.
Therefore, to be ordained as a pastor, a candidate must be a proven student of God’s Word, “rightly handling the word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15). The candidate must be “able to teach” (1 Tim 3:2). “He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it” (Titus 1:9). He must be able to protect the flock from falsedoctrine and from wolves (Acts 20:28-30).
The Sovereign Grace Book of Church Order (BCO), following biblical standards for eldership, states that all of our elders must possess an aptitude for sound doctrine: “Elders must possess as aptitude for sound doctrine, which means they understand and believe it and can teach and defend it” (3.5). They must also have an ability to teach: “Such an ability to teach implies a basic ability to organize ideas, accurately exegete the biblical text, and communicate this in a way that encourages, instructs, and even inspires other believers” (3.5.3).
The ordination process for the churches of Sovereign Grace is intended to protect the integrity of our doctrinal commitments and values, to guard against being hasty in the laying on of hands (1 Tim 5:22), and to ensure that called and qualified men are filling our pulpits, leading our church plants, and pastoring our churches. All current elders in the churches of Sovereign Grace have a vested interest in the quality of our future elders. The theological maturity and biblical fidelity of our pastors is fundamental to the health of our union of churches.
For this reason, there must be ordination standards that accurately assess a man’s knowledge and handling of Scripture, his ability to understand and apply sound doctrine, and his fundamental doctrinal commitments. There must be doctrinal standards for eldership that are higher than what is required of church members (Jas 3:1). There should be a process of careful study, preparation, and examination. Candidates should be assessed for their ability to bring God’s Word to bear on a range of theological, pastoral, and contemporary issues. The examination should also cover our Statement of Faith, BCO, and our shared values.
Such a process is faithful to the standards of Scripture, is in keeping with the Sovereign Grace BCO,and promotes the future health of the churches of Sovereign Grace.”
Sovereign Grace Churches Ordination Guide Pg. 3
Pastor’s College Graduation Photo
Sovereign Grace Pasadena and The Chapel of Pasadena are teaming up again this year to bring elementary kids JAM! VBS . JAM has nothing to do with sticky substances, although sticky substances are never off the table when planning a fun-filled day camp for kids! It just stands for "Jesus and Me."
Our goal is to help kids develop a deeper trust in Jesus through Bible stories, worship songs, crafts, music, games, and interaction with caring adults and teens.
This year's JAM will be July 10--14, from 9am to noon at Victory Park in Pasadena.
It's open to all kiddos entering Kindergarten through 6th grade (or about 5--12 years old) and is entirely free to attend.
Volunteers and junior helpers are needed, welcomed, and appreciated!
Click here to register or here to email the church office about volunteering.