Together LA Listening Tour

We sit down with Caleb Monroe of Reality LA who is passionate about seeing creatives and the creative industry in Los Angeles find hope in Jesus. With his extensive history in the creative field, Caleb is passionate about bringing the community field together through local events and building  a unique, faith-based ecosystem for creatives of all kinds.

Join us as we sit down with Alexia Salvatierra, an LA-based Lutheran Pastor with over 35 years of experience in community ministry, including church-based service and community development programs, congregational and community organizing, and legislative advocacy. In addition to coordinating the Welcoming Congregations/Guardian Angels Network for the Southwest California Synod of the ELCA, she currently serves as faculty for Fuller Theological Seminary and consultant (training, facilitating, organizing, and leading strategic planning) for a variety of national/international organizations, including World Vision USA/World Vision International/Women of Vision, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and the Christian Community Development Association. 

We talk about public policy, what advocacy and partnerships look like between churches, the impact of COVID on immigrant communities, and serving our cities well.

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.