Join a panel of local Pastors on Facebook Live as we share stories of the black theologians, leaders, and communities that form and inspire us as people of faith.

“I am who I am because we are who we are” finds its origin among the Bantu people of Africa.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela both used this understanding of the shared
nature of our being in advocating for mutuality in regard, in respect, and a reminder of our
oneness as human family upon the earth. Somehow, our theological foundations have been
framed and set primarily through the voices of western Europe minus the corroborating and
shaping perspectives of African, Indigenous, Central or South American voices and countless
others. In this Black History Month, we are engaging that wider lens on our view of God and
God’s ways, to enrich our basic spirituality in the gospel-speaking voices of others who share
our oneness of being. “In Christ’s body we’re all connected to each other, after all” Eph. 4:25c).

Rev. Anthony J. Chatman, Hosanna Lutheran Church
Rev. Ele Clay, Workspace
Rev. Emmanuel Jackson, Living Word Lutheran Church
Rev. Ashley Dellagiacoma, +KINDRED

This is a free online event, broadcast through Facebook Live, hosted by +KINDRED.
facebook.com/kindredmontrose

Community SERVICE. ART. TACOS.

Join us for a morning of caring and creating with our neighbors, followed by tasty tacos fresh from the +KINDRED KITCHEN food truck.

All ages and abilities can pitch in as we:

-Create encouraging care packages for frontline hospital staff

- Pick up trash and clear overgrowth from our streets

- Put finishing touches on the community kitchen

- Craft public displays of revolutionary change, gratitude, and remembrance

Help us make the most of the day by registering here: https://bit.ly/39NwzLP

Join us as we give thanks for our bicycles and pray for joy, strength and safety on the roads, trails, and pathways we travel. Whether you ride for fun, for work, for fitness, or transportation…we celebrate what our bikes can do for us and for creation. This short 15-minute blessing is offered out of the Lutheran/Christian tradition, but you don’t have to be affiliate or religious to participate.
Gather near the big red sculpture at the park for the blessing. Everyone will receive a small gift to remind us of this moment.
Then we’ll enjoy a short ride on the hike and bike trail - open to all lever riders and everyone is welcome.
And/or pack a picnic to enjoy at the shaded tables back where we started. The event is free, but we’ll be accepting donations to benefit Freewheels - a local organization refurbishing and redistributing bikes to refugee families and veterans in Houston - freewheelshouston.org

Along the Way is a low-key walk through the park to nurture body and spirit. Join us for a bit of fresh air and lush landscapes with stops for guided mediation, simple prayer and blessing. You’re invited to: Move. Notice. Just Be.
We not only welcome but embrace people of all identities, belief or tradition, and abilities. Bring a water bottle, but you can leave the heavy duty hiking boots at home. We’ll be walking at a slow pace to include everyone. Kids can come too! We’ll have special activities designed with them in mind. We can spread out along the trail but also pack a mask as an act of love for thy neighbor.
Anyone who wants to is invited to linger afterward for a BYO picnic brunch to just hang out (at a safe social distance, of course).

We'll meet up at the Miller Outdoor Theater box office ticket windows.

More details here: https://fb.me/e/chOhhbMnM

Join us for a time of festive fun together. Show us your Christmas sweaters, pour a warm drink, enjoy some conversation about traditions and hope, plus some seasonal trivia.

https://fb.me/e/R0QFh3Ig

Our animals are important to us and they are a source of blessing in our lives. Join us in the park to offer a brief prayer of thanks and care for them. Bring your precious critter (or a picture of them) and receive a gift to remember this blessing. All kinds of animals and all kinds of people are welcome.

When they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had already been rolled back. (Mark 16:4)

Click these links to join us in worship at 6:30 PM: https://zoom.us/j/288412504 or www.facebook.com/kindredmontrose

Jesus's resurrection happens in the middle of the night. In the midst of grief, fear, and exhaustion...Jesus still surprises us with a love that cannot be stopped. As we gather online for Sunday's Digital Dinner Church, we'll unearth the smudged and stained "alleluia" we buried just 6 weeks ago (even though it kinda feels like a lifetime ago). We'll sing songs of resilient praise, even if we're unsure how we'll find our voice. We have a tradition of waving rainbow ribbons every time we hear that incredible word, "Alleluia," so we invite you to gather any colorful ribbon you have, or a scarf, bandana, crazy socks, or whatever you've got...to create a visual choir of praise as we welcome this little Easter.  You don't have to pretend that the world is something it's not right now, but together we can look for God's persistent promise in these days. A fuller feast and champagne celebration will come later whenever we can gather again in person. 

Just as early Christians made their way through the city of Jerusalem, pausing to pray and to contemplate the mysterious journey of Christ to the cross, so we make our way through this city and particularly this Montrose neighborhood - pausing to pray, to witness, and to remember. 

While practicing a loving distance from our neighbors, you're invited to  download the self-guided route  to drive or ride through local landmarks and read their histories paired with readings from the Bible which reflect both the pain and the love they witness to throughout time and place. 

Visit the sacred ground of immigrants, freed slaves, and queer-folk as we meditate on its meaning. Stops include the burial place of Camp Logan survivors, several locations in Freedmen's Town, holy spaces in the Gayborhood, and other sacred ordinary places many of us pass everyday. 

Download the guide here:

tinyurl.com/stationsofmontrose

"Maundy Thursday" comes from a latin word that means "command." As Jesus gathered with his friends and disciples to share a final meal together, we remember and engage the command to "go and do likewise." We join with our Episcopal neighbors for a special DINNER CHURCH liturgy which includes opportunity for the sacred practice of foot-washing.

Join us live for interactive chat at 6:30 PM here: https://ststephenshouston.online.church/
or worship anytime via YouTube: https://youtu.be/UO5tQa_Z-Jo

Digital Bulletin: tinyurl.com/Maundy2020

Remember that you are dust and that God makes beautiful things out of dust.

This begins a season of reflection and preparation called Lent as we draw close to the mystery of Easter. In addition to the mark of ashes that connects us to the earth, we offer glitter as a sign of visibility, wholeness, and holiness of our LGBTQ community.

Join us in the street at the corner of Westheimer and Waugh during the lunch hours or in the park (Lamar Park, 1419 Hyde Park Blvd) that evening for a brief worship.

Our monthly HOUSE CHURCH gathering becomes an Advent party as we continue to set spaces for a season of anticipation within ourselves and our sanctuary. Create ornaments and an Advent calendar for your home, enjoy festive food and drink, then we’ll decorate the sanctuary with garlands and a tree and all the trimmings. Obnoxious seasonal sweaters are not required, but welcome. Join us at the church building.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20 @ ST. LUKE THE  EVANGELIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH, 7-9 PM

Join with the transgender community as we honor and mourn the loss of our trans siblings.
We will #SayTheirNames and we will remember them all while acknowledging ourselves (those of the trans lived experience). Refreshments provided!

We’re shifting from start-up to sustaining and you get to help shape the future. Join our second community meeting to reflect and refine a drafted "Rule of Life" that will articulate how we identify and lift up leaders, how we make decisions and evaluate what is healthy and holy for us as a people.

There will be PIZZA, discernment and a working group to help synthesize what emerges, give it shape, and finalize a document to guide us into the future. Mark your calendars and join in the work of creating Kindred together.

Our animals are important to us and they are a source of blessing in our lives. Join us in the park to offer a brief prayer of thanks and care for them. Bring your precious critter (or a picture of them) and receive a gift to remember this blessing. All kinds of animals and all kinds of people are welcome.

We’re shifting from start-up to sustaining and you get to help shape the future. Join our first community meeting to create a "Rule of Life" that will articulate how we identify and lift up leaders, how we make decisions and evaluate what is healthy and holy for us as a people.

There will be PIZZA, discernment and we'll form a working group to help synthesize what emerges, give it shape, and draft a document to guide us into the future. Mark your calendars and join in the work of creating Kindred together.

Lenny is coming to Houston to do a free reading of #DearChurch and Q and A with some music and adult beverages. Hosted by Kindred Montrose and the good folks at Gulf Coast Synod. Tickets are free and available here -
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dear-church-houston-tickets-60425472214

Lenny Duncan is the unlikeliest of pastors. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make all the headlines, but Duncan sees something else at work--drawing a direct line between the church's lack of diversity and the church's lack of vitality. The problems the ELCA faces are theological, not sociological. But so are the answers.
Part manifesto, part confession, and all love letter, Dear Church offers a bold new vision for the future of Duncan's denomination and the broader mainline Christian community of faith. Dear Church rejects the narrative of church decline and calls everyone--leaders and laity alike--to the front lines of the church's renewal through racial equality and justice.

It is time for the church to rise up, dust itself off, and take on forces of this world that act against God: whiteness, misogyny, nationalism, homophobia, and economic injustice. Duncan gives a blueprint for the way forward and urges us to follow in the revolutionary path of Jesus.

This event is free and open to all.

RSVP to this event and invite your friends on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/810756642650655/

Presented by +KINDRED, the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod, Christ the King Lutheran Church, Salem Lutheran Church, Faith Lutheran Church, and Living Word Lutheran Church

Join us as we give thanks for human-powered transportation, and pray for strength and safety on the roads, trails, and pathways we travel. We’ll gather on the front steps of the church for the blessing and each participant will receive a reminder of this blessing that they can attach to their bike. Then we’ll enjoy a short neighborhood ride open to all lever riders and everyone is welcome to return to the church building for brunch. The event is free, but donations are welcome for brunch that will benefit Freewheels - a local organization refurbishing and redistributing bikes to refugee families in Houston.

Join us this New Year’s Eve for a different kind of celebration with a powerful and profound experience while balancing and harmonizing our chakras through visualization, meditation and sound vibration.

Tickets at tinyurl.com/NYEchakras

come as you are, to marvel at the wonder of God born among us. It’s an evening of sacred story, told through a no-fuss, no-rehearsal, come-and-jump-in “pageant.” It’s candles and singing and community. You can dress your kids up if you want, or come in your holiday PJ’s. You can bring your grandparents, or your buddy from the bar. We’ll have light snacks and drinks to enjoy during worship.

the holiday season is sometimes joyful and sometimes painful. We’re joining together with neighboring faith communities on the longest night of the year, the winter solstice, for a beautiful service of light in the midst of darkness. It’s a time when we can honestly express our grief, our struggle, and be reminded of hope in community. It’s a night of prayer, music, blessing, and healing.

Join our Hyde Park neighbors in Lamar Park (1419 Hyde Park Blvd - the esplanade Park at Waugh & Hyde Park Blvd). Acoustic guitar, singing together, and hot chocolate!

We're supporting our partners with Montrose Grace Place by participating in an afternoon of fun! 

Saturday, Dec. 8th

Compete as a team to decorate the best Gingerbread House or come as spectator. There will be celebrity judges, prizes, festive food and drink, and a great silent auction. Earlybird rates have tickets for a team of three at only $30, additional team members (2 per team only) are $15 each! Our goal is to have two teams from +KINDRED competing.

Gather a team and register at montrosegraceplace.org

Since the early 1980s, an estimated 36 million people have died
from AIDS-related illnesses. Houston has the most people living
with HIV/AIDS in Texas, a reality with vast consequences.

Join us for a World AIDS Day Observance at Legacy's Montrose location. Pastor Ashley will offer the invocation and there will be a brief program with guest speakers, followed by a walking candlelight vigil.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2188829651391099/

Join us Saturday afternoon as we hang the greens, decorate the tree, and deck the halls to prepare our sacred space for the anticipatory season of Advent. Enjoy seasonal snacks and treats, festive music, and make your own Advent calendar for your home.
https://www.facebook.com/events/493620984380437/

Get your tickets HERE.
Don't miss the childcare add-on option.

Maybe you're a Game of Thrones super-fan, maybe you know nothing about Jon Snow, maybe you just love a party where the theme is just so extra...

You're sure to have a great time for a great cause.

You can count on delicious dining, riveting entertainment and games, a performance by the Mother of DRAG(ons) and costumes galore. Come join us in our medieval banquet hall for a chance to claim the Iron Throne! 

All God’s critters got a place in the choir…even the creepy crawly ones. Our animals are important to us and they are a source of blessing in our lives. It is an ancient tradition to offer prayers of thanks and care for them. Bring your precious critter (or a picture of them…or come dressed up as one) to practice this ritual of blessing. 

Every once in a while we need the chance as a community to just hang out and share something fun. This is true especially before the hustle of fall begins to takeover again.

Join us on:
August 18th, 2-4 PM
at Emancipation Park
for an
End of Summer Pool Party

Entrance to the pool is free!
There's a great shallow end and beach entry for young kids and an awesome water slide for the bigger kids.
Bring a towel and sunscreen.
RSVP on Facebook, and/or use the event page to invite friends!

RSVP via Facebook.

As a church, we have something to say about the dignity of people.
Our national church body gathers leaders together to respond to the timely concerns of our culture. These teams engage in deep study and communal listening to author a document that would serve as a guide to our faithful reflection and action as a whole church. Often, this takes place over an evolution of several years! Recently, such a team has worked diligently and drafted a statement on Women and Justice. They are seeking feedback on this work as it will be voted on at our National ELCA Assembly next summer. 

We're hosting a forum to reflect on these words and take note of the suggestions and edits that the Spirit has given our community to offer. Join us for a thoughtful discussion of how God calls the church to care for and advocate with all women.

People of all genders are welcome to participate.
Please RSVP on our Facebook Event so we can be sure to have sufficient resources available.
While pre-reading isn't REQUIRED, it will certainly enhance our time together. You can read the full draft statement here.
https://www.elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Current-Social-Writing-Projects/Women-and-Justice
If you have to limit your reading, we suggest you focus on the first 10 pages which serve as a highlight to the rest of the document.

Let's have fun together! Join KINDRED for a relaxed evening out at Miller Outdoor Theater as we enjoy the show for free from the lawn. The show that night is called "All Shook Up," featuring popular tunes from the 50's. The Show starts at 8:15, but come early to make sure you find our spot and have time to enjoy a little picnic-ing. Bring your lawn chairs, picnic dinner/snacks, blankets.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/219385882182535/

http://milleroutdoortheatre.com/events/1111/