SDA kinship
44th Annual Kinship Kampmeeting
Please let us know how you would like to help us host the Kinship Kampmeeting Sabbath gatherings this November and/or if you or a friend would like to attend the Kinship Kampmeeting Sabbath gatherings in Sierra Vista Chapel.
On November 9-12, 2023, SDA Kinship International will be meeting at multiple venues in Riverside, CA.
The La Sierra University Church is hosting Sabbath worship gatherings for Kinship Kampmeeting on our campus.
This hospitality is congruent with over forty years of relationship-building by members of our congregation, since the first Kampmeeting in 1980. It is consistent with our congregation’s “resolve to work for change in our church community to be fully welcoming and affirming for all LGBT+ people.”1 It is also congruent with our Adventist practice of open communion, where we are all welcome at Jesus’ table.2
At the La Sierra University Church, we gather weekly for worship with the Bible open, seeking always to be relevant, raw, and wrestling with our faith. Dependent on the Holy Spirit, we strive to be a community of Jesus-followers who are authentic, transparent, inclusive, and compassionate.
We don’t all agree on every issue. Neither do the members of Kinship.3
But we are united in the commitment to love one another and welcome one another as Christ has loved and welcomed us.4
May the Holy Spirit help us make room for each other, as we follow Jesus, so all may encounter Christ more fully.
Be Well,
The La Sierra University Church Board and Pastoral Staff
1 Welcoming Statement, voted in church business session, January 26, 2019.
2 https://www.adventist.org/the-lords-supper/
3 https://www.sdakinship.org/en/about
4 John 13:34-35 and Romans 15:7.
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La Sierra University Church
4937 Sierra Vista Ave
Riverside, CA 92505
951-354-7095
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