Pomona Valley Church

It's Easter week, and we decided to do a series of short devotionals to celebrate!  Each day this week we will post a 5-ish minute reflection on a part of the Easter week story. We hope you find them meaningful, and a helpful starting point for some intentional reflection about what it means to follow Jesus into the world this Easter.  (We'd encourage you to listen to these one per day,...

It's Easter week, and we decided to do a series of short devotionals to celebrate!  Each day this week we will post a 5-ish minute reflection on a part of the Easter week story. We hope you find them meaningful, and a helpful starting point for some intentional reflection about what it means to follow Jesus into the world this Easter.  (We'd encourage you to listen to these one per day,...

It's Easter week, and we decided to do a series of short devotionals to celebrate!  Each day this week we will post a 5-ish minute reflection on a part of the Easter week story. We hope you find them meaningful, and a helpful starting point for some intentional reflection about what it means to follow Jesus into the world this Easter.  (We'd encourage you to listen to these one per day,...

It's Easter week, and we decided to do a series of short devotionals to celebrate!  Each day this week we will post a 5-ish minute reflection on a part of the Easter week story. We hope you find them meaningful, and a helpful starting point for some intentional reflection about what it means to follow Jesus into the world this Easter.  (We'd encourage you to listen to these one per day,...

We talk through a tentative timeline for how Pomona Valley Church will form, and where you all come in to help make it a reality. Thanks for listening, praying, and dreaming along with us! Find show notes, including the link to donate at meredithannemiller [dot] com Get in touch at PomonaValleyChurch [at] gmail [dot] com We love you all!

Note: This is an updated version of Episode 10 based on some great feedback we got from friends around the country. We wanted to devote a whole episode to our final value, diversity, both because it is, in some ways, the most controversial of our values and also because it's the one that most benefits from a more thorough, nuanced discussion.  We talk about our commitment to diversity in race...

There are certain values that we hope will be the very first things people think of when they think of Pomona Valley Church. These are Sacrifice, Openness, Relationship, Authenticity, and Diversity. In this episode we tackle the first four of these values, saving Diversity for its own special episode. We talk through what we mean by each value, give some stories of how we've seen them in acti...

We extend the conversation from episode 05 to talk about how we hope Pomona Valley Church will relate to those outside our church community. What does it mean to neighbor well and do justice?  We tell some stories of how others have been good neighbors to us, give a framework for how we will equip one another to do this in our everyday lives, and talk about what it means to be engaged in doing jus...

In this bonus episode, Meredith walks us through a tool we created to help you build a Rhythm of Life. The tool itself is available now on her blog.  Our desire is to help people follow Jesus in a way that is joyful and sustainable, so we created something to help you do just that. For best results, print out our pull up the Rhythm of Life tool and follow along as you listen, jotting down any idea...

At Pomona Valley Church we want to equip people to follow Jesus joyfully and sustainably.   One way we hope to do that is by providing practical tools that help people follow Jesus in their everyday lives, tools like a Rhythm of Life. In this mini-bonus episode we set the stage for the first iteration of that tool, which is available now on Meredith's blog.  We give a little context for the n...

In which we unpack what it means to live the one anothers in a community. We share some stories of how we've experienced communities that do this well, by holding babies, cleaning up, setting us straight, and eating together. There is also the triumphant return of "What Curtis Read This Week", back by popular(?) demand. Find show notes at meredithannemiller [dot] com. Get in touch a...

In which we unpack how we want to follow Jesus in our everyday lives at Pomona Valley Church. We introduce the idea of a 'rhythm of life' and some of the markers that can make that rhythm joyful and sustainable. We want our rhythms to be: Real not Idealized Seasonal not Forever Personal not One-Size-Fits-All Communal not Individual Faithful not Quick-Fix Originality is overrated. Find sh...

On the third episode of The Launch Pod for Pomona Valley Church, we dive into a theological disconnect that impacts the effectiveness of the church: what exactly is the good news? If the answer is too narrow, it can become irrelevant.  We explore the alternative: how a re-expanded understanding of the gospel, and a church that is trying to live out that re-expanded gospel might connect with people...

People are increasingly disconnected from the Church, but does it have to be that way? We explore a few of the major disconnects we are seeing, and how we might bridge those gaps at Pomona Valley Church.  In this episode we ask whether church could: Actually fit into my schedule? Not be so 'one-size-fits-all'? Fully include me, my friends, and the people I care about? Get in touch with u...

In which we launch the Launch Pod for Pomona Valley Church! An overview of the reasons we think it's time to start a new church and what that church is going to be like.  Show notes and more at meredithannemiller.com Want to know more about launching Pomona Valley Church? Get in touch with us (we don't get tired of talking about this stuff!): pomonavalleychurch [at] gmail [dot] com.