June 14
10:30 AM
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Meeting ID: 965 2135 7401
Password: 864012G
By Phone: 253-215-8782
This Sunday, we welcome guest speaker Rev. Dr. Monica Corsaro. Let us come together and be inspired by her message, “Miracles do Happen!”.
Reverend Doctor Monica Corsaro is the Settled Senior Pastor of Fairview Community Church in Costa Mesa. Her career always having an interfaith and intercultural understanding has combined traditional ministry and political activism while steeped in a process of understanding, serving diverse communities in Washington State, Illinois, Colorado, and Southern California.
Before coming to Orange County, she led United Methodist and Christian Church, Disciples of Christ congregations in the Seattle area, and served a variety of higher education communities and settings, as campus minister at the University of Washington, chaplain of community engagement at Monmouth College, University Chaplain at Illinois Wesleyan, and Director of Spiritual Life at Knox College. At every setting if they already were not open and affirming, she led the congregation or board through the process so they could become so. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science from Illinois State University, a Master of Divinity degree from Iliff School of Theology, and a doctoral degree from Wesley Theological Seminary.
Pastor Monica is a strong advocate for social causes. She has served as Director of Social Justice Ministries for the Church Council of Greater Seattle and was the first-ever chaplain in the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. And Co-Convener of the Religious Coalition for Equality, a statewide organization that along with many other advocacy groups won marriage equality for the state of Washington in 2012. After, while serving as the pastor of Rainier Beach United Methodist Church in Seattle, she challenged the Boy Scouts of America after they removed a member of her congregation from his role as scoutmaster, due to his sexual orientation. Pastor Monica, her scoutmaster, and the troop of Rainier Beach United Methodist Church, fought the Boy Scouts of America, won that battle, and today local troops can have scoutmasters of their choice (regardless of gender or sexual orientation)… all thanks to a small church in a neighborhood sticking to their values.
Another passion of the Rev. Dr. is the intersectionality of process thought and jazz, and that all of life is improvisation, and when done well plays, and plays well! Check out some of her writings on the blog Open Horizons. Rev. Dr. Monica Corsaro can be seen walking at one of our many gorgeous green spaces or beaches and or at one of our many coffeeshops enjoying a cup of coffee and good conversation and or a jazz spot grooving to the beat.
Spring blooms in glass vases decorate a table with purple cloth and communion trays.
You’re invited
Come worship with us on Sundays at 10:30 AM! Our services include singing, prayer, and a message from Scripture, sometimes delivered by guest speakers. Children start the service with the adults, enjoy a special storytime, and then join their Sunday School class.
We also offer adult Sunday School an hour before our worship service, both in-person and online. And if you’re looking for deeper study but can’t make it in person, our online Bible study series lets you grow in faith from anywhere.
The mission of Good Shepherd Baptist Church is to be a supportive, open, growing Christian community that reaches out to all in a spirit of unconditional love. We respectfully acknowledge that our services are being held on the traditional lands of the Snohomish and other Coast Salish tribes.
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