JOIN The Church in Ocean Park Community

this Sunday, March 30th, 2025!

10:15 am-12:00 noon

Also on Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89696209837

Featuring

Lex Ryan

Lex Ryan (he/they) is a photographer, storyteller, abolitionist, and anti-racist organizer working toward collective liberation. In 2020, he designed a unique program called Trans 101 to give cisgender participants an expansive understanding of gender and a space to bring all their questions without fear or shame. Find Lex on instagram @trans.101.workshop and @lex.ryan or at his website: www.lexryan.co (not .com)

MINISTER: Reverend Janet Gollery McKeithen

CHAPLAIN: Reverend Joseph Hepburn

MUSIC: Music Director Louise Dobbs

MUSIC: Dr. Kim Harris

at The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica CA 90405

Also available on Zoom!

Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89696209837

Check us out on YouTube

Our newly updated YouTube Channel now has videos of our Zoom Sunday Services

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UPCOMING AT THE CHURCH IN OCEAN PARK

Tuesdays@2pm:

April 1st, 2:00-3:00 pm

JOIN ZOOM MEETING:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89437376617

Poetry Reading with Fred Whitlock

Come to Tuesday@2 Poetry Reading! Bring any poems that you would like to read to the group, whether they rhyme or are free verse, and either by favorite authors or verses that you yourself have written. Or just come to our poetry reading Zoom to listen!! Our fearless leader, Fred, usually has one or more new poems for us each time we meet, and we love hearing his poems!

Fred Whitlock is a Church in Ocean Park member, poet, and former journalist. He has given readings in New England and Los Angeles over the years, and he took over a past Poetry Reading Series at the church and ran it for several years. You will usually find Poetry Reading with Fred on the first Tuesday of every month.

Sunday, April 6th

Zoë Collins

Marine Protected Area Program Coordinator of Heal the Bay

Zoë's work includes overseeing the MPA Watch Community Science Program as well as MPA advocacy, education, and outreach. She graduated from UCLA in 2023 with a B.S. in Marine Biology and has an avid passion for connecting people to their waterways, advocating for environmental conservation, and creating a Los Angeles more resilient to our changing climate. Her research background primarily revolves around marine biogeochemistry with a specific focus on both deep-sea microbial mats and constraining planetary habitability models through aquatic analogs. Outside of her passion for science and the ocean, she loves pottery, writing, and 2000’s rom-coms.

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Everyone is welcome, no matter your culture, ethnicity, creed, religion affiliation or non-affiliation, no matter your ability, where you are from, where you are headed, LGBTQ+welcome, all ages, etc. THE CIRCLE IS MEANT TO EXPAND.