Worship Location
Affordable Housing Construction is Underway!
While our worship home is under construction, this week, we gather @ the:
First Lutheran Church of Inglewood
600 W Queen St
Inglewood, CA 90301
Guest Preacher: Rev. Heidi Worthen Gamble
Rev. Heidi Worthen Gamble is the Mission Catalyst for the Presbytery of the Pacific. Heidi has served as Director of Nativity House, a drop-in center for people experiencing homelessness in Tacoma, Washington; Co-Pastor of Savoonga Presbyterian Church, a Siberian Yupik Inuit congregation in Savoonga, Alaska; and Business Manager of the Synod of Southern California and Hawaii, PC (USA). She is a graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary, where she received her Masters of Divinity in 1997, one of the youngest female pastors to be ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
She is a current board member of ENLA, the Emergency Network of Los Angeles; past Faith Leader Appointee to LA Mayor’s Interfaith Council; and past Board Member of CLUE, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice. Her publications are Insights from the Underside: an Intergenerational Conversation of Ministers and Mutual Transformation in Mission: Conversations in Liturgical/Missional Communities and Homes for the Homeless: Churches Tire of Quick Fixes and Seek Solutions. Pacific Presbytery’s mission work has been featured in numerous PCUSA publications.
Heidi has participated in coalitions in LA County that have successfully passed legislation for homeless services and affordable housing, and helped initiate the Faith Alliance to End Homelessness of LA County, launched fall 2024. Heidi was the author of a General Assembly Overture that created the PCUSA Meso-American Migration Mission Network that launched in March 2024. Pacific Presbytery has been a member of ENLA since the Woolsey fire, and Heidi was designated to represent Presbyterian Disaster Assistance as their regional representative to ENLA in January 2025.
Heidi has two daughters, Hannah (24) and Madeleine (20). She loves to sing and has performed with symphony choirs up and down the West Coast. She currently sings with the Angel City Chorale of Los Angeles, recently singing in Italy. She enjoys travel, hiking, biking, theater, coffee with friends, anything ocean–and being a mom.
Scripture Focus: John 21:1-31 (CEB)
Early in the morning of the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 She ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve put him.” 3 Peter and the other disciple left to go to the tomb. 4 They were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and was the first to arrive at the tomb. 5 Bending down to take a look, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he didn’t go in. 6 Following him, Simon Peter entered the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there. 7 He also saw the face cloth that had been on Jesus’ head. It wasn’t with the other clothes but was folded up in its own place. 8 Then the other disciple, the one who arrived at the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9 They didn’t yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples returned to the place where they were staying.
Jesus appears to Mary
11 Mary stood outside near the tomb, crying. As she cried, she bent down to look into the tomb. 12 She saw two angels dressed in white, seated where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and one at the foot. 13 The angels asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
She replied, “They have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they’ve put him.” 14 As soon as she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she didn’t know it was Jesus.
15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she replied, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him and I will get him.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabbouni” (which means Teacher).
17 Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold on to me, for I haven’t yet gone up to my Father. Go to my brothers and sisters and tell them, ‘I’m going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
18 Mary Magdalene left and announced to the disciples, “I’ve seen the Lord.” Then she told them what he said to her.
Jesus appears to the disciples
19 It was still the first day of the week. That evening, while the disciples were behind closed doors because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities, Jesus came and stood among them. He said, “Peace be with you.” 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. When the disciples saw the Lord, they were filled with joy. 21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father sent me, so I am sending you.” 22 Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they are forgiven; if you don’t forgive them, they aren’t forgiven.”
Jesus appears to Thomas and the disciples
24 Thomas, the one called Didymus, one of the Twelve, wasn’t with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 The other disciples told him, “We’ve seen the Lord!”
But he replied, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger in the wounds left by the nails, and put my hand into his side, I won’t believe.”
26 After eight days his disciples were again in a house and Thomas was with them. Even though the doors were locked, Jesus entered and stood among them. He said, “Peace be with you.” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here. Look at my hands. Put your hand into my side. No more disbelief. Believe!”
28 Thomas responded to Jesus, “My Lord and my God!”
29 Jesus replied, “Do you believe because you see me? Happy are those who don’t see and yet believe.”
30 Then Jesus did many other miraculous signs in his disciples’ presence, signs that aren’t recorded in this scroll. 31 But these things are written so that you will believe that Jesus is the Christ, God’s Son, and that believing, you will have life in his name.
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