Announcements

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4/21 - Adulting Class - Retirement Savings
Free classes, approximately every 1st and 3rd Mondays, from 7:00pm-8:30pm at the Doyle Recreation Center Game Room. Join us as we launch some life skills classes. Learn from our community members, spread the word and invite anyone you know who might be interested! See schedule here.

4/26 - Creek to Bay Cleanup
Join us as we care for the earth together through "I Love A Clean San Diego" on Saturday, April 26, 2025, 9am-12pm at Mission Bay - Tecolote Shores. Sign up through their website here, and complete your waiver. Feel free to bring your own supplies (gloves, bags, grabbers, buckets) otherwise the site captain(s) will be providing trash bags and disposable gloves.

5/1 - Miramar Food Bank Volunteering Event
Join the Mira Mesa CG as we volunteer at the Miramar Food Bank on Thursday, May 1st from 6 - 8 PM. It’s an open invite for anyone who wants to take part in building partnerships with the local community. Signups open April 2nd and end April 24th. Please see details below regarding signups:

1. Visit http://sdfb.volunteerhub.com/account/signin and click “create an account”
2. Create a username and password, and click next. If you already have an account, use your existing login credentials.
3. Enter join code “ethocc” (join code is case sensitive), click next. [note the spelling in the code - ethocc NOT ethnoscc]
4. Fill out account information and click “next”.
5. Scroll to the event date 5/1 and register for MIRAMAR Warehouse Volunteer Evening Shift 6-8 pm by clicking on the green “sign up” icon.

It may help to filter by date (May 1) so you can save time scrolling all the way down. You can learn more about the event on the website - most of the duties involve inspecting, sorting, packaging, food donations for Senior, Food Assistance, and Food 4 Kids Backpack program. Due to it being more of an assembly line job, there is an age restriction for younger folks - only those 11 years old and older can volunteer. Tasks may include assembling different non-perishable food items (canned vegetables, meats, packs of rice) into boxes that get loaded onto pallets. There will be a safety brief at the beginning in case things change up.

Ethnos Parents - New webpage to reduce paper waste! We're thrilled to introduce our Weekly Parent Cue webpage, where you can find resources to support your child's spiritual growth. This webpage is accessible with the passcode EthnosKids92122. It features weekly devotionals and guides that connect to what your kid/s learned in Sunday class! Check it out.

Community Groups (CG) - Community Groups are our way of connecting with one another throughout the week. Our hope is to foster friendships where we can be seen and heard in our authentic selves, and experience God's goodness with one another. The current CG schedule is listed below. If you're interested in checking one out, let us know by sending an email to 

Online Group - 7:30pm Mondays @ Zoom

UTC Group - 7pm Tuesdays @ Villa Vicenza

Mira Mesa/Scripps Ranch Group - 7pm Wednesdays @ John's

Family Group - 4pm Saturdays (monthly) @ Nobel Lucera

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Live Simply. Love Deeply.

A Lenten Series

What are you looking forward to, but are not sure will happen?

Luke 23:50-54

50 Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and upright man, 51 who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea, and he himself was waiting for the kingdom of God. 52 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. 53 Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid. 54 It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.

Joseph of Arimathea

• Wealthy Jewish leader – member of the Sanhedrin
• Waiting for the kingdom
• Jesus’ follower putting himself at risk

Luke 23:55-56
55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. 56 Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.

The Women

• Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and others
• Passionate to serve the Lord
• Forced to sit and wait in their loss 

Luke 24:1-10
24 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ ” 8 Then they remembered his words.
9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles.


When we're facing the darkest days, Jesus is waiting for us.

Look to Jesus for fulfillment.

Look to Jesus for resurrection.

Look to Jesus for hope.

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Community Prayer

Pray for Earth Day

• For the global Church to be good stewards of His creation. (Gen 1:26-28)
• For nations around the globe to work together towards a global effort.
• For God's protection and provision for vulnerable communities.

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