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by Rich Dixon As I shared in last month’s article “Embracing Creation Care,” I work for a Christian conservation organization called A Rocha. In Portuguese, A Rocha means “The Rock.” The name is fitting given … Read More

Growing up playing baseball at every opportunity, I learned under my fair share of coaches. I had coaches that were really good and others that were somewhat less than good, but the best “coach” I … Read More

by Lisa Maraszek November 14, 9am to 1pm Join women around the world on November 14th for Arise! Cry Out!, a worldwide day of extraordinary prayer for children and schools. This generation is in … Read More

by Abbe Larson For 12 days, our team of eighteen from my hometown worked in Lima and Iquitos, Peru. In Lima, we teamed up with Camino de Vida church missionaries and Free Wheel Chair Mission … Read More

by Marty Robertson I apologized for bringing up Christmas in the September issue of Community News. I now take it back. Costco had its Christmas merchandise out just a couple of days after the … Read More

by Steve Jolley & Ryan Wassel Did you know that Santa Barbara Community Church is a “Reformed” church and stands in the Reformed tradition?  Do you wonder what that means for SBCC’s Bible teaching, … Read More

I confess to you, so enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did [slavery’s] wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for Abolition…. Let the consequences be what they would, I from this time … Read More

by Betty Sullins Thanks to the Royal Family Kids Camp staff and the volunteers who helped with the wonderful Friday Night Dinner in the Fellowship Hall on July 31, 2009.  In Psalms 113 (The … Read More

by Marty Robertson Sorry. The purpose of this-mini article is not to heighten your anxiety about being ready for Christmas. Instead I would like to challenge us as a church to take Christmas back: … Read More

by Rich Dixon Our little house sits on an intersection in Santa Barbara’s Westside neighborhood. As I crouch in our garden to weed, I imagine the monks who prayed and labored in this posture … Read More