Together LA Listening Tour

Recently we sat down with Charles Choe, Lead Pastor of Tapestry LA, to discuss the promises of God and the generational aspect to Korean-American churches.

We get to sit down with Gael-Sylvia Pullen who is a speaker, author, award-winning businesswoman, and global leader in community engagement. As the founder of Girls Fly!, Gael-Sylvia is known for her passion for diversity, philanthropy, and female leadership, which has even earned her recognition by the White House. For almost 20 years she owned and operated multiple McDonald’s franchises, including locations within the inner city and at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Join us as Christian author and leader, Jim Belcher, shares more of his journey, from authoring Deep Church, to serving as the president of Providence College and the lead pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, and his heart behind starting his new organization, the Institute for New Vital Center.

In this episode of Together LA's Listening Tour, we have guest host William Adjei interview author and speaker, Andy Crouch and his daughter,  Amy Crouch, a student at Cornell University, about living wisely in the age of technology. 

Join us as we sit down with Dr. La Verne Tolbert, author, professor, editor, teacher-trainer, and curriculum writer, about her career, passions, and living in LA for over 30 years.

In this week’s episode of the Together LA podcast series, we sit down with Pastor Jon Ritner, Lead Pastor of Ecclesia Hollywood and speak with him on church life, leadership and how he is choosing to lead through a global pandemic.

With the election right around the corner, we had the chance to sit down with Kaitlyn Scheiss, author of The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor, and hear how she is navigating the current political climate as a Christian and how Christians can engage politically and still be Christ-like.

We recently got the privilege to sit down with Ryan Lee to talk about the integration of his faith and work and how to navigate the intersections that come along with each of these areas in life and how his past in ministry was one of the best training grounds for him.

In this week's episode of the Together LA Listening Tour, Tommy and Johanna sit down with Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission, and discuss the issue of homelessness in LA, COVID’s impact on his mission, and life lessons from serving in ministry 35 years.

This week we catch up with Marielle Wakim, and talk about her life in the city as an author at Los Angeles Magazine and how she’s navigating work through the pandemic. We also talk about what she considers “her best worst idea ever” of becoming a wedding hashtag creator and that one time she got on the Wheel of Fortune TV show.