Risen At The California Plaza July 15, 2009

It was so much fun being at the Heritage Month Culmination Reception! ABC7 News was there, so we got our 24 seconds of fame. :)

But besides that, the different cultures represented were so beautiful. And then I looked at our choir, and knew that this was a small glimpse at what Heaven was going to be like. Mayor V (since I have no idea how to spell it) even said that the most segregated time and place is a church on a Sunday; but that Shepherd of the Hills was the exception to that. If you look at our church, it is filled with so many different races and cultures. Like Mayor V said, "you guys are a kaleidoscope of the community."

I mean, just look at this photo! This is just a minuscule number of people that represent Shepherd. Imagine, 8,000-10,000 people, all different in the way we look, but all alike in the belief of Jesus Christ dying on the cross for everyone. Pretty cool, eh?? A friend of mine did some Spoken Word a while ago, and what he wrote really correlates to this topic of race and the church. I'll post the video at the bottom.

Oh, and besides all THAT good stuff, the food was AMAZING. African, Asian, Latino, and Native American!! And all of it FREE! Ah, my favorite word in so many ways. :) They even gave us these goodie bags with so many things in them! It's an UP bag, and it had POTC2: Dead Man's Chest Special Edition, a kaleidoscope, cute flip-flops, a visor (haha yea I know it's weird), and other cool stuff. Ooh, and there was this really cute guy that -- haha, maybe I'll post about that next time.