Why learn about native plants?

Because they are so powerful! Each native plant plays a crucial role in their home ecosystem: supporting other plants, supporting insects and birds and all sorts of animals, even supporting the microbiome and nutrients in the soil. If you see a hill covered in native plants (and there are a lot of these gorgeous hills in Poway), those plants are doing serious work to purify the air and capture green house gases. Because these plants are literally built for this place, they don't need much maintenance and don't guzzle water. They also tend to be more resistant to pests (reducing pesticide usage). Of great importance, honoring our native plants is another way we can honor the Indigenous peoples of this land -- the original stewards of the place we now call home.

We have lost 150 million acres of natural habitats and farmland to urbanization over the past 100 years. It's devastating. Because of how interconnected our ecosystems are, each species we lose has a ripple effect. Honoring, planting, and protecting our San Diego native plants also has ripple effects! It's a powerful act we can take, answering the call to care for creation. Source

Ladle Fellowship


Ladle Fellowship is an outreach that gives people who are experiencing homelessness a hot lunch, medical care, haircuts, and clothing needs. CCP sends a group of volunteers to help every two months. 

Sunday, July 26th is the next opportunity you will have to help with this amazing outreach. We will be carpooling at 12:30, meet in front of the church by the parking lot. 

If you have questions contact Colleen at 858-663-6584, or powclem@yahoo.com

Greetings from Outreach,

We’d like to start off by saying thank you to our amazing church family, and friends!! You made the Basket of Hope Sack Lunches for Interfaith Community Services such a success. Your generosity was overflowing. Thank you for sharing Jesus’ love with our neighbors in need ❤️

This month Our Basket of Hope will bring a smile to the faces of our neighborhood children at Solara. We will be collecting backpacks and school supplies to bring joy to 12 children who need our help.

Next to the basket of Hope, we will have a board with slips that have the specific school supplies needed. Please choose from those slips what items you will be gifting and then return your gifts to the basket.

Thank you in advance for helping with this Outreach Mission. I know that it really means a lot to the children. To start school with a nice clean backpack filled with brand new school supplies is a blessing to them.

So, please stop by the Basket of Hope and bring a smile to our neighborhood children!

Blessings from the Outreach Ministry

You are invited to join this wonderful group of women that meets every Tuesday in the Fireside Room at 10 a.m.

Centering Prayer

Tuesdays at 6:30 PM

Contact Colleen Clementson at powclem@yahoo.com or on

her cell at 858-663-6584, for the ZOOM invite



A few years ago, my health declined to the point that I was unable to work and sometimes even unable to walk from one room of my house to another. So much of my self-worth and identity used to come from my work and my ability help friends and loved ones. I suddenly found myself unable to work and unable to provide help to others, rather needing lots of help myself.

It was like a rug was pulled out from under me. I had to completely reconstruct how I valued myself -- to recognize my value even if I couldn't work or be productive -- while also confronting a society that thinks of disabled people as worthless and disposable. Surviving this and the poverty that followed my health decline reinforced for me that capitalism doesn't serve us and absolutely doesn't love us. 

The third principle of Disability Justice is anticapitalist politics:

"Our Existence is Resistance: Capitalism is a system where a few people control almost all the resources. It’s a system that tells us we only deserve to exist if we can work and make money. That’s not fair! Disabled people’s minds and bodies can do lots of things, but we can’t always do what people expect us to. We are important even if we can’t work a job. This is called Anticapitalism." Source

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Image Credits:
Laurel sumac photo by emerkt on iNaturalist
Laurel sumac berries photo by macromermaid on iNaturalist
Floral background photo from Birmingham Museums Trust on Unsplash 
Floral playlist photo from the Photo from The New York Public Library
School supplies photo by shraga kopstein on Unsplash
Worn bible photo By David Ball - Original work, CC BY 2.5
Illustration of praying girl by Jessie Willcox Smith from The New York Public Library
Exhausted by Capitalism by Josh MacPhee on Just Seeds, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0