Announcements

If you'd like more information or wish to sign up for any of the events listed below, we'd love to hear from you! You can email us at


8/3 - Potluck Picnic - Today after service!
Get ready for our potluck picnic! We'll be heading next door at Doyle Park, 12pm right after service to enjoy a fun time filled with delicious food as we connect with one another.

8/10 - Book Club
Our next book club will kick off on August 10th. These gatherings are a great way to deepen your journey with Jesus. We will be reading The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows, which explores cultivating a richer understanding of God’s love and offers practices that energize us daily. Everyone can benefit from this experience, especially those seeking to engage with God more regularly.

8/17 - Newcomer Lunch
If you're newer to Ethnos, we'd love to invite you join us for a free lunch! It'll be at 12pm, right after service at Leucadia Pizzeria. This will be a space where you can ask questions, get to know us better, as well as meet our Pastors.

Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting
Join us before service at 9 a.m. for our Sunday Morning Prayer Meetings. We'll gather outdoors in front of Doyle to pray for our church community and its leaders. Take this time to connect and listen to God. Everyone is welcome! 

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

UTC Group - 7pm Tuesdays @ UTC

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

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

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Current Message Series: A Faith That Loves

What did you do when you first experienced freedom?

Galatians 5:13-14

13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Galatians 5:16-18

16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Freedom gives us a new basis for morality: the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 5:19-21

19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Following the Spirit leads us away from destruction.

Galatians 5:22-26

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

Following the Spirit leads to life.

The Fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control

• They are not a new law.
• They cannot be forced.
• They are the result of surrendering to the Spirit and letting Him lead our lives.

Love comes as we understand God’s love for us
Joy comes as God works on our brokenness.
Peace comes as we follow the Spirit in reconciliation.
Patience comes as we trust that God is in charge.
Kindness comes as the Spirit helps us see others as He does.
Good works come as we trust God’s provision.

Faithfulness comes as we dialogue with the Spirit.
Gentleness comes as we bring our anger to God.
Self-control comes as we say Yes to the Spirit.

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Community Prayer

Pray for the Prayer Ministry 

• Pray for "...the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that we may know him better...that the eyes of our heart may be enlightened in order that we may know the hope to which he has called us...and his incomparably great power for us who believe.  (Ephesians 1:17-19)
• For each person's well-being: peace, encouragement, protection from spiritual attacks, joy, and thankfulness.
• For the church to grow as a prayerful church, that a prayerful culture would develop and God would make us into a people that delight in coming together to pray. 

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