God has been calling me home to him all my life. My journey to the Kingdom began in children’s ministry learning how to let my little light shine and being amazed by how God could carry the whole world in his hands. Suddenly, my family left our home church. Afterwards I remember bouncing around in different churches throughout my adolescence (even getting baptized at the age of 11) but none of them ever became home. We stopped visiting Christian churches and I resigned myself as a holiday Christian who visited catholic churches regularly, silently prayed, and searched for God in the dark.

Lots of life was lived before I came back to God. This time I came alone, as a college student, with the weight of torment seared into my soul. I started attending the young adults ministry at a church in San Jose. It was there that God reminded me of his power and began to heal my heart through community and truth. He carried me even when I would not open my eyes to see his light. More life was lived before I began studying the bible with my cousin and her friends from the Sac Metro church in Sacramento. My heart was still raw and I was not ready to accept what God was asking of me. The study ended but I stayed close with one of my new friends. 

A few years later, I had my son and shortly after I became a single mom. Only then did I reach out to my friend asking for a church recommendation close to my new city. She connected me to Raquel, who connected me to Stephanie, who lovingly welcomed me and my son into her and Brian’s home and began studying the bible with me again. With their help and the help of Linda and Yvette, I counted the cost, renewed my faith in God, and made Jesus Lord on February 9th, 2025. Prayerfully, my brother and 2 of my 3 parents witnessed my baptism that day. Through fellowship, dots were connected and my dad and stepmom revealed they had been baptized through and were part of a church that Stephanie, Brian, Linda, and John were members of before and I was in that children’s ministry. The best part of that day was that, 25 years later, God called my family back home and reminded them of how precious and loved they are.

I am still in amazement of the wondrous ways God works through us, constantly loving us, healing us, and orchestrating all of our lives only for the betterment of us. I look excitedly towards the future as I walk in my new life guiding my son, finding hope, helping and inspiring others with my journey, and living as a reminder that when God calls us home he will never stop calling.

- Cheyenne

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." - George Washington Carver was born into slavery in the early 1860s. He became the first student to integrate Iowa State University and became a professor at Tuskegee University in Alabama. He was an agricultural scientist who wrote about methods for soil preservation and developed techniques to improve depleted soil, urging farmers to restore nitrogen to their soils by practicing systematic crop rotation: alternating cotton crops with plantings of sweet potatoes or legumes, such as peanuts or soybeans—completely changing the farming industry. George Washington Carver created 325 uses for peanuts, 108 applications for sweet potatoes and 75 products derived from pecans. Some of the products he created include chili sauce, meat tenderizer, instant coffee, shaving cream, and Worcestershire sauce. - Isaiah 55:8-13

"'I wasn't talking to them,' I told her. 'I was praying for them.' Usually, I prayed in the car on the way to school, but that day I'd forgotten until I was in the crowd. Please be with me, I'd asked God, and be with those people too. Forgive them because they don't know what they're doing." - Ruby Bridges, born in Mississippi,  is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell, and said this quote as a 6-year-old passing by the hateful mob yelling nasty terrorizing comments, including threatening to poison her and holding up a black baby doll in a coffin. - Luke 23:33-34

"I found that I knew not only that there was a God but that I was a child of God. When I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous." – Maya Angelou, born in St. Louis, became a famous playwright, editor, and poet. She worked for both Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement, recited, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010. - Joshua 1:9

Join us for our next monthly Sister's Breakfast on March 1! If you happen to check out this event on the website before, please note that the location was changed to a restaurant in Oakland.

Time:  9:00 AM

Place: The Peach

Address: 3257 Lakeshore Ave, Oakland

All sisters and friends are welcome! Please RSVP to Liz via email by clicking the button below preferrably by Feb 23, but if you don't know if you can come until after the RSVP date,  please still RSVP and lecome ut RSVP late to let us know.

We hope to see you there! 

Join us for one of our Sunday church services or other events around the Bay.

We hope you can join us today for our All Fellowship Church Service in San Jose. Here is the link for directions to the place we are meeting at San Jose City College. 600 Bascom Avenue, San Jose. Last week a link was in the newsletter but this one is more accurate for the exact building where we will be meeting.