This past week I attended a pastoral prayer group in Anaheim. It was at a church I’ve been to before with a pastor I’ve gotten to know well. As I walked up the pastor was outside, which was out of the ordinary. He greeted me and shared with me that he needed to address a situation on campus. He apologized but said it was urgent so I replied, no problem I’ll go with you.  As we walked, he explained...  Read More

My name is Joe and I have been on a wild roller coaster with the Lord lately. I recently started a fire academy that has been 3 years in the making. I left my career as an athletic trainer of 5 years to step into the world of firefighting because I felt the Lord called me to it. I have always lived desiring to see his kingdom come in more than just ministry moments or the church, but seeing him mo...  Read More

This past week was Vision Sunday for us at Sanctuary and we shared how God has been moving and where He is leading us as a church in this next season, it was a great time together. One thing that God had me do is to share an overview of my journey with God and how Sanctuary came to be a part of that. I wanted to share those stories with you and how I experienced that with man this is impossible, b...  Read More

I wanted to share my mom's story of faith amidst health troubles with you this week. Here is how she shared it.  I want to share a recent experience with you and how faithful God has been to me during my “storm”. On October 20th my husband (Mark) and I headed to Texas to visit our daughter’s family and watch our grandkids play soccer, baseball, football, etc…..so blessed and so much fun.  On Octob...  Read More

This week's story is about God speaking when and where we least expect it. This is from Josh, one of our football coaches this past Summer, who has been a part of our Wednesday group.I have played basketball as long as I can remember. But after last season I knew it was time to move on from playing ball but I didn’t yet know what was next. I was talking with my grandpa about what’s next and he sug...  Read More

For years Patrick looked like he had it all together. He had built up plenty of wealth and had an image of success. He had the career, family, was a youth sports coach, usher at church, and active in his children’s school. He considered himself a checkbox Christian, where if you look at his life, he would check all the boxes and you would look at him and say “Yep he’s a Christian”, but it was just...  Read More

A few weeks ago leading up to Christmas many of the leaders of our Monday night group were busy and were going to absent from group. I was leading that night with just one other leader but we had prayed and God had shown us direction for the evening so I was feeling good. Then, as happens so often, my wife reminded me of our schedule for the night. She reminded me that I was taking my son to his C...  Read More

This past week I asked my friend Arvind to share his story of meeting God through our group this past week and this is what he shared:Last week when I came to Saturday morning group I was feeling very tired because it had been a long and busy week. While everyone in the group was going around and sharing how they were I just felt really numb like I felt like I couldn’t really process my feelings b...  Read More

I wanted to share a follow-up on last week’s amazing God story about David, one of my coaches from football camp. I always ask permission from those whose stories I share and ideally, you get to hear a quote directly from them. Below is what coach David wanted to share about how God has met him recently.As a reminder, coach David found out a month and a half ago that his fiancé did not in fact hav...  Read More

Hernia or HeritageA few months ago I got connected with a few guys that coached for me at our football camp. I shared previously that after camp a couple of them got connected with us through one of our groups and have been meeting God in meaningful ways. But one of the coaches met God in the midst of some particularly outrageous circumstances.He was working as the youth pastor at their church whe...  Read More

Body ImageEach week in our groups we end with worship and prayer ministry. This time is to create space for God to show us how He wants to minister to others through us. Two weeks ago, we began this time of prayer ministry, and I asked God if He wanted me to minister to anyone. He immediately highlighted my friend who was having a tough week. Then, just as God highlighted him God said don’t go alo...  Read More

Into the DeepA month or so ago you were introduced to Stephanie. She has been on such a journey with God these past few years. If you remember she and her boyfriend Luis came to check our church years ago when we met on Sunday nights at the community center. Then the pandemic and life hit they were beaten down and really struggling. They were having many serious issues with their families; the pan...  Read More