TEAM MEMBERS
John & Jude Tiersma Watson
InnerCHANGE Los Angeles
IC Los Angeles Vision Statement:
We are a missionary community who, by the power of God’s love and with our neighbors, catalyzes movements of the transformative Good News of Jesus throughout Central Los Angeles.
We live and work in the Westlake / MacArthur Park neighborhood – a densely populated, multicultural, multigenerational, Latino immigrant community in the heart of Central Los Angeles. Our heart is to see people from our community raised up as leaders and activated missionary disciples of Jesus, who live out and share the Good News as people shaped by God’s love, justice, and mercy. We believe that the Gospel transforms hearts, minds, lives, families, systems, structures, and communities and that God’s Spirit is actively present and working to bring more of the Kingdom of Jesus to every place. Therefore, we seek to partner with God and our neighbors in ministry and daily life, in the work that God is already doing and inviting us to participate in.
Our team’s ministries are informed by the needs, dreams, and gifts of people in our community, along with the Spirit’s leading. Current ministry activities include:
engaging youth and adults in Discovery Bible Studies
prayer walking with neighbors for our community
ICLA Music Collective – discipleship and music with high school youth
partnering at a local high school with other non-profits and ministries
blessing, encouraging and equipping neighborhood women through quarterly Women’s Retreats and other connections
We also have team members who live and work in Pomona, seeking the good of their community. They engage in prayerwalking, participating in a local church, Clean and Green Pomona, and stewardship of books and other resources.
About Novo
Novo is a band of creative missionaries sent to multiply movements of the gospel and mobilize the church for mission around the world.
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