Based in Southeast San Diego – sacred Kumeyaay territory – we’re a small community of decolonizing Christians who seek the peace and justice of our neighborhoods. We love creating community, undoing harmful church theology and practices, participating in the story of Jesus, and amplifying marginalized voices around us.

Over the past 15 years, many of us have devoted our energy towards cross-cultural and interfaith work among refugees, justice-involved youth, Southeast Asians, and Muslims. In 2014, we launched a non-profit coffee shop to provide job training and professional development to youth in City Heights facing barriers to employment. Recently in 2021, we held a public solidarity event for Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders facing racism and discrimination. In June 2020, we organized city-wide interfaith prayer vigil as a response to the murder of George Floyd and Ahmad Arbery. In 2017, we helped orchestrate an interfaith Saturday picnic for over 500 Syrian refugees who had just resettled to East County San Diego.

We ask three important questions:

1. How can the American Church come face-to-face with its complicit relationship with colonization, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia?
2. How can we hold sacred space for confession, lament, and repentance, especially the ways in which our theology and practices have harmed others?
3. How can we re-imagine a Church that honors the image of God in those around us, restores and heals Creation, and helps us a look a bit more like Jesus each day?

Alongside our community partners, we continue to seek Jesus’ invitation to cultivate a church that embodies the way of Jesus – his sacrificial love, his radical grace and inclusiveness towards the marginalized, and his liberating power that transforms us and those around us.

Meet the Leadership Team