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Highlights
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Fall Convening 2025
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NET-MAKING
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On November 5-7, 2025, over 60 network participants joined us in New York City for a time of learning, encouraging, orientation, resource-sharing, and story-telling. We hosted our first pre-convening “Cultivating Learning Communities” workshop, attended by about half the participants. And we made nets, all kinds of physical and metaphorical connections in this time of rich relationship-building. As the HUB learning network grows, we see the fall convening as a time of orientation and re-framing, of formation and deepening who we are in relationship to each other, to God, and to our ministry contexts. Check out highlights here.
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Creation Care Retreat
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GRANT STEWARDING
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The core team of Pastora Alumnae has been planning a retreat under the theme, Creation Care, from August 24-26 at the St. Paul’s Commons in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Dr. Sandra Rechiter, biblical scholar at Westmont College, gave a biblical perspective of environmental stewardship the first night, and Pastora Alumna Dr. Jessica Lu gave a presentation on microplastics and its impacts on all living creatures. We ended with action items for us and the church to heed to Creation Care and Welfare of all God’s creation, in the urban context and beyond. For takeaways, we all agreed to transform our daily lives and urge churches to take loving actions to save God’s creation. Learn more.
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We Have Plenty
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RESOURCE SHARING
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We Have Plenty: A Womanist Theology of Communal Abundance for the Black Church by HUB Grantee, Dr. Lorena M. Parrish traces the history of theologies of prosperity to help scholars and practitioners understand the long-standing appearance of prosperity gospels in the Western church. Parrish offers a womanist theology that hearkens to the liberative work of Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm Collective and illumines contemporary initiatives that cultivate pathways toward Black communal abundance. Learn more on our resource page.
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Light Breaking Out
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STORY-TELLING
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In this season of Light Breaking Out, we are speaking with the artists from the Creative Community Care residency on their experience and continued engagement in art, faith, and community. In the latest episode, we had our first pair of artists, Naomi Kuo and Naomi Lawrence, share their story and experiences and how the residency has shaped their creative practice. Listen to our conversation with them on our podcast, Light Breaking Out.
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