Epic - The Tongue

Church begins at 8am in an empty gym. Alot of folks all have to pitch in to make our Sunday worship celebration happen (setup, sound, media, greeting, Sunday School, etc ...)


Serene working Sound


Steve working media


Becky's worship team rehearsing


backview of the worship team

more rehearsal


Welcoming / Announcements - Pastor Kevin


Mediation presentation - Andrew


Opening worship


Special announcement - Crop Day by Melanie (also update on El Sauzal by Andrew & Kat )


Pastor Erin


Congregational discussion question / scripture - theme study


Pastor Erin making a point


"Leader" or "Loser"


sermon point


James 4


three results from not speaking up


Sermon Application


Prayer for communion


closing worship and communion


Benediction by Pastor Erin

Current Series: The Character of a Disciple
Message: The Tongue
Text: selected scriptures
A message examining the necessity of communication. Saying what we should but don't so that we don't say what we shouldn't. Talking about how God speaks to us. It's all love and gravy.

Epic Church - Self Control

Harry's team opened with worship


Announcements by Ingrid


El Sauzal Orphanage - April 12th


Congregational prayer for Jill & Art on the birth of their daughter Maggie.


Pastor Kevin - sermon on "Self Control" ("The Character of a Disciple").

What do you have control over?

Discussion questions

closing prayer and communion preparation

closing worship & communion

Closing Benediction

Current Series: The Character of a Disciple
Message: Self-Control
Text: John 5:1-15
Synopsis: Part of living life well is being able to distinguish between things we can control and things we cannot - and making peace with both. Self control, or self discipline, is the ability to take responsibility for our lives and things we can control. It seems in many cases, people try to control what is beyond their control while not controlling their inner worlds of which they do have control. For the disciple, self control is a necessary and vital part of character development, part of growing up as an adult person. In this story, Jesus initiates toward the man in the pool and provides healing, even while the man makes excuses for his plight. Even after his healing, the man is easy to pass blame off to Jesus. In the end, Jesus confronts him about his unwillingness to take responsibility for his own life.

Bonus Photo

We had a fire drill at the end of service when the fire alarm was triggered by accident. We got to practice evaculating the facilities as a group!

Happy Birthday - Pastor Kev (March 8th)

da birthday boy and his kids!

Chocolate birthday cake at House Church (Fullerton) on Friday for all the March birthdays including James Harrison (3/12) and Dorene Doi (3/15) among many others. Happy Birthday!!

Epic Church - Desperately Broken

Becky praying


Opening worship set


Welcoming - Pastor Erin


Announcements by Daniel


Kat plugging for the El Sauzal Orphanage outing in April


Tithes & Offerings


Pastor Kevin


Kevin gets some "volunteers" to sharing about yesterday's Spiritual Gifts seminar


Pastor Kevin teaching from Mark 5:31 - 34 (desperation)


closing worship and communion


Pastor Kevin - bendiction

Current Series: The Character of a Disciple
Message: Desperately Broken
Text: Mark 5:24-34
Synopsis: Throughout the gospels, those to whom Jesus gives himself are the desperately broken. This is in comparison to those whom he does not: the self-righteous and unaffected who do not realize nor admit their need for him. This is one of the most overlooked, yet vital characteristics of a disciple: a movement of our hearts toward him in humility and desperation knowing we need him. Often times, we equate "faith" with knowing right information, but in this story and others like it, Jesus commends as real faith the desperate but intentionally outreached hand of the bleeding woman towards him. Sometimes in our desire to be like Jesus, we miss that the way to him is to be like the desperate and needy who fill the pages of the gospels - these are the ones who are healed, these are the ones who get Jesus himself.

Epic Church - Spiritual Gift Seminar

Gia & Erin Hamilton conducted the Spiritual Gift seminar today. We prepared ahead of time by getting others to fill out SG's surveys on what they believed were our SG's.


Here's the list of 19 SG's identified by Dr. Bobby Clinton at Fuller Seminar.


Part of the process was to identify and diagram our "Natural Abilities", "Acquired / learned" skills, and our perceived "Spiritual Gifts". This was Pastor Erin's example diagram.


After an awesome lunch provided by Epic Church, we continued to interact with one another on the SG's discovery process. Here's one of my fellow classmate sharing his diagram as we dialogue and prayed with each other.


Here's our list of top three SG's for the 35 folks who attended our seminar today.

Thanks to Gia and Erin for doing a great job of helping us discover / confirm our giftings.

-DB-