A New Story for Boyle Heights

God’s story for Boyle Heights is one where families are made whole, where poverty is not the norm, where people are cared for, and healing of the whole persons is realized. God desires a Boyle Heights where the gospel is preached and lived. This is our desire.

We aim to connect people to the gospel and bring hope through worship services, evangelism, and community events. We will not be a church stuck in four walls.

We will have welcoming and powerful worship services, but we will also go out into the community and take the gospel to the people through different models of evangelism. Orphan City Church will have community events for Passion Week, Advent and Christmas. We will also partner with schools, meeting the needs of students, parents and faculty, and with city members to facilitate Summer Night Lights event, a program detected to keeping kids off the street. The people of Boyle Heights will hear the message of the gospel through multiple facets.

Orphan City Church aims to support the gospel through small groups, children and youth ministries, financial and parenting classes, community nutrition and health.

We understand that our commission is to disciple, and discipleship is done most effectively in small groups. We will have small groups for young adults, men, women, and mixed groups as soon as possible. We will also support the gospel by teaching Bible-based financial and parenting classes, as well as help sponsor members of the church who wish to seek counseling outside the scope of pastoral care. We would also like to teach nutrition and health, offering classes in building gardening beds and growing needed foods. The people of Boyle Heights will be able to live a holistic gospel.

We aim to move the gospel forward by training people in our church to be leaders in their families, in the community, in the local church, and in the global church.

Orphan City Church will invest in people that show an eagerness to share the gospel with the world. We will help people discover their calling to lay and clergy ministry, and empower both men and women to respond to God’s calling. We will put resources in local and global missions, knowing God has called us to serve the whole Church as well as the local church. The people of Boyle Heights will pass on to their neighbors, family, schools, workplace and to the ends of the earth a gospel that changes the world.

To do all this, we know Orphan City Church cannot work alone.

As we seek to do God’s will, we will partner with the Free Methodist family, the Los Angeles City Council, the Neighborhood Council, local schools, local churches and other organizations that offer counseling, health, and family support. In partnering with people already doing the work in Boyle Heights, we aim to be a hub of resources for the community, moving in unity with people who have already started great work to change Boyle Heights.

God is calling out to a people who are lost, who have left their Father’s home, and found themselves orphans. God is calling out to this city of orphans and He’s calling them home. Orphan City Church is joining in God’s call.