05/07/2020
GRADUATE Update!! Aaron and Alyson!
“We moved to LA in February of 2018 to be a part of the future church gathering of Soma Venice. The official church gatherings started in March of 2020, and we had a total of 2 gatherings before LA’s “safer at home” order. But, like most church gatherings, we have continued to meet as a church online through Zoom gatherings for our Missional Communities and YouTube posts for our Sunday gathering messages.
It’s been a crazy experience getting connected to the culture and communities here in Venice and creating relationships with locals. One way we do this as part of Soma Venice is through Missional Living. We believe that as God’s people our main purpose in life is to show His love and care to this city, especially those around us – such as people we work with. Aaron works for Dollar Shave Club and Alyson works for a local café, Caffe Luxxe. These environments have shown to be great opportunities for showing our coworkers the love and truth of Jesus.
Soma Venice is made up of two Missional Communities, so far, both having a common mission focused on the houseless communities here in Venice. Our MC’s common mission is focused on our houseless friends who reside on the streets around where our MC meets weekly. Before the “safer at home” order, we would have weekly Saturday morning cartoons meetings where several of our MC members would meet at the host house and go invite some houseless folks in for cereal and Saturday morning cartoons. Since the social distancing has come into play, however, (through God’s provision) we’ve collected a sum of money from donors that we use to buy supplies for them that they might not be able to obtain during these times.
Currently, we are doing our best to believe in and share God’s sovereignty during these times and let that over shadow any fear that might creep in. We pray that this will lead to more people placing their hope in God, and that when it’s all over our church gatherings will come back strong, welcoming new faces.”