If you’re in your 20s and 30s, you’re invited to join the fun at the Whiting Ranch Wilderness Trail as we get some fresh air and connect together.

We’ll gather/stretch at 8am, then the hike starts at 8:15am and should last about 2 hours. Additional parking is available at the nearby lots in front of Ralphs.

Calling all young adults in your 20s and 30s! Whether you’re new to Newsong or have been with us for a while, come and join us for a night of good food, great conversations, and making connections. This is a perfect chance to bring friends, meet new people, and build community.

Cost is $20/person, but we don’t want finances to be a barrier—if you’re unable to cover the cost, your dinner can be taken care of! And if you’re in a place to give, we invite you to pay it forward and help cover the meal for someone else who can’t this season.

Come as you are and let’s enjoy an evening together!

Tableau is located in South Coast Plaza, and the address is:

3333 Bear St Suite 119, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Thirteen Newsong artists invite you to learn about domestic abuse, mental health, racism, urban art, environmental destruction, and immigrant youth, through an interactive evening of spray paint, visual installations, turntable mixing, plant-based card making, the SIMS video game, music, and breakdancing. Parental supervision is advised as the content discusses domestic abuse and is not appropriate for all audiences. Light refreshments will be provided.

This exhibit is curated and produced by Susan Y. Shimazu, Tamara Fairbanks, and Ritchie Kong in partnership with Newsong Church, the City Seminary of New York, and The Expression Project, with funding from the Lilly Endowment’s Religion Initiative.

Highlighted Artists include:

Jenn Detroit – Street Artist and Designer

Jenn’s passion is to bring street and cultural art to life in classroom where it can be understood and not silenced. Street art and graffiti can often be judged and disregarded by mainstream society as vandalism when in fact street art enables and gives voice to individuals who don’t otherwise have a voice or space to be seen or heard. In collaboration with her students, Jenn has co-created visual street art that gives voice to the unheard.

Sarah Dornbos – Sculptor and Educator

Sarah invites Christians into envisioning a world without racism. She has designed an aspirational tree that incorporates the dreams of over 50 evangelical Christians of the world they would like to see realized by addressing racism in all its forms, personal, structural, and societal. Her living tree of anti-racism was cultivated in conversation with Bernadette Arthur’s Tree of Racism.

Tamara Fairbanks – Musician and Educator

Tamara’s passion is to obliterate the fear that people have in the creative process. Too many times people stop expressing themselves due to the fear of making a mistake. This project shows that mistakes can be beautiful. Some will take small steps others will take large steps, but together, we will create something beautiful and meaningful.  Using a keyboard , music recording software, and colored dots to aid the participants in the creative musical process Tamara will assist participants in creating musical works.

Olivia Garcia – Artist and Survivor

Olivia is a survivor of domestic violence and currently works as an advocate in the Spanish speaking communities for women seeking pathways out of harm. She has shepherded six women who will be sharing their stories anonymously through their paintings as a part of an effort to bring awareness to the impact of DV on women and their families.

Tori Gray – Visual Artist

Using sketches and video, Tori’s designs create a safe place for participants and other CPTSD survivors to explore the pain that may often be hidden by shame and stigma. She invites each person into community through the sharing of her experience, strength, and hope. She illustrates her journey in Al-Anon and her faith through the evolution of a special bunny.  Her piece is titled “A Day with the Grays”.

Dan Emmerie Hadinata – DJ and Curator of Arts and Culture

Dan “DJ Audible” has been working with local churches and in the Santa Ana arts community for over 18 years.  Bringing together artists of different expressions from the Saint City hip-hop community, he invites you to participate in a safe space of expression, where the learning and worship of God can be more than the traditional methods of reading and singing. Urbanartsoutreach.org

Grace Hadinata – Environmentalist and Artist

Grace has witnessed the devastating impact of overproduction and waste on the global community, particularly in her homeland, the Philippines. As an environmentalist and watercolor artist, she has created a visual piece that invites participants into commitments to care for creation and restore hope for the vulnerable.

Teresa Huang – Musician and Social Worker

Teresa is a musician and educator who works with immigrant youth who are enrolled in an English Language Development program. She has included them in the creation of a musical piece that introduces the experiences of second-language English speakers and the challenges they face as newcomers to the United States. Teresa hopes to make visible the needs of this often-overlooked population of youth.

Ritchie Kong – Street Artist and Visual Designer

Ritchie’s installation showcases a montage of moving elements which explore and deconstruct the Model Minority Myth. One screen shows the presumptuous generalization of how Asians are perceived, exploring imposed stereotypes on racialized groups, the other reveals the life of post-war refugees in their struggles to navigate American culture and integrate into a new society

Sunny Lee – Social Worker and Artist

As a social worker, Sunny has observed many of the barriers which prevent individuals from diverse racial and socio-economic backgrounds from accessing mental health resources. In a creative and interactive experience using the SIMS video game she will help participants explore what the ideal therapy setting looks like for diverse communities.

‘Bboy Don’ Sevilla – Breakdancer and Urban Artist

Don started breakdancing as a youth back in 1982. Ever since then, he has been blessing dance communities and charities across Southern CA by sharing his love of the art form. In relation to Newsong, he was a member of the church’s dance crew “In Rhythm with Him” in 2005, which later led to launching @SaintCityHipHop in 2007 at the 10ten location and serving periodically at Mix Academy. You can now catch him alongside other faith-driven urban artists every first Saturday of the month at Santa Ana Art Walk.

Susan Y. Shimazu – Social Practice Artist and Educator

As a Japanese American whose parents were incarcerated in the U.S. concentration camps, Susan has seen firsthand how fearmongering creates hate. To address bias and stigma in the evangelical church, Susan has designed a color-filtered font and invites participants into the creation of eye charts that illuminate the issues that arise when we lack the ability to see others through a lens of love.

Jie Tian – Poet and Gardener

A poet and traditional arts/culture bearer, Jie practices EarthArt through writing, ink/paper/book making, and by tending a garden for art materials. She will offer a workshop where participants can experience spontaneous creativity to make prints and drawings by using words and fresh flowers/leaves on paper. She hopes to inspire self-sufficiency, ecological awareness, peace, and healing through sustainable art practices.

Each of us was created by God to experience a deep and meaningful relationship with him. As our sense of acceptance and safety with God increases, the possibility of depth and meaning in our relationship with God can also increase. Meeting once a week over a seven-week period, guided by Pastor Ed Salas, the participants of the Divine Dance small group will be learning how to hear God (through a process called thought rhyming) and to experience him more deeply on a daily basis.

When: Wednesday evenings: October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 11

Time: 7:00 – 8:45 PM

Registration Fee: $15

(covers the cost of the book, Joyful Journey, Listening to Immanuel)

Questions? Contact Ed Salas at: ed.salas@newsong.net

Catch some waves with us!

Are you wanting to ride the waves and enjoy the ocean breeze? Whether you’re a seasoned surfer or just starting out, our Surf Haven is the perfect place to improve your skills, meet new friends, and have a blast!

What to Bring: Surfboard, wetsuit, sunscreen, and a great attitude! Non-surfers are invited to join as well for some early morning beach time.

An evening of storytelling to transform and inspire.

Join us on Friday evening for a powerful event where voices of resilience and change take center stage. “Resilient Voices: Unveiling Injustice, Inspiring Action” invites individuals who have faced injustice to recount their experiences, reflect on the impact of injustice in their lives, and inspire others with their journeys toward creating positive change.

When you join us, you’ll grapple with injustice and have to ask yourself: “What can I do in my life, with my community and with my strengths, to ensure that my society uplifts and protects the divine dignity of each of my neighbors?”

As we prepare for Newsong’s 30th anniversary gala, we are looking to choose six finger-food appetizers from our community that remind you of HOME. You can use the form below to sign up to have your dish tasted on Sunday, August 25th.

If your dish is selected you will have the choice to share your recipe with the Seeds + Sparks Team for them to prepare or keep it secret and prepare 500 servings for the gala on October 5th. If you need assistance purchasing ingredients, please indicate so on the form. We would love to have you and the story behind your recipe highlighted at the gala as well. We are so excited and thankful for your participation.

Please contact Rhiannon (rhiannon.toan@newsong.net) with any questions!

Kaleidoscope Women are proud to take you “Through the Looking Glass” – a tea party to help find ourselves in a mad world. It will be a magical morning as we hear some wisdom from our panelists, Rehana Rodriguez and Rebecca Gibbons.

We encourage all guests to dress up according to the Wonderland theme.

Childcare is also available – use the link below to register!

Any questions, please contact kaleidoscope@newsong.net.

Ignite your faith and join hundreds of believers and community organizations for an evening that will inspire action.

Together, we’re overturning the tables of our broken society and centering love as we grapple with the challenges of war, racism, poverty, inequality, unjust immigration policies, and violence.

Experience powerful speakers, soul-stirring music, and thought-provoking art that showcase a growing movement of Christians committed to embodying Jesus’ radical love.

This free, open-to-all event isn’t just a celebration – it’s a movement shaping the very heart of Christian engagement in our world.

Doors open at 5:30pm and the celebration begins promptly at 6pm.

Oasis is offering a FREE capacity-building workshop to support local artists in becoming a sustainable business. Grateful for our community partners that continue to invest in our creative community.

Would you like a spot of tea? Join Our TEA Haven! This month we’ll be in Irvine together and we’d love to see you there!

Don’t miss out on the fun—grab your tea hat and join us for a moment of tea!

Many people wonder about prayer and ask soul-searching questions about prayer…

• What is the real purpose of prayer?
• What does it mean that, “prayer moves the hand of God?”
• Why are my prayers sometimes answered and other times they are not?
• Do I still need to pray, even if I don’t have “the gift of prayer?”

These and many more questions will be answered in this interactive workshop. We will examine some different modalities of prayer and how each one is an invitation from God to set into the intersection of the seen and unseen realms. This workshop promises to be a transformative experience for anyone who wants to learn how, “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” (James 5:16b, NIV)

About the Introduction to Prayer Workshop Presenter:

For the last 19 years Ed Salas has served as the Spiritual Formation Pastor at Newsong Church, a multi-site international church based in Santa Ana, CA. Ed is the author of the book, The Praying Church, Discovering What the Heart Longs for Through Prayer.

GOSPEL OF MARK – INDUCTIVE BIBLE STUDY

Facilitated by: Daniel Allen

• This study is expressly for young adults (20’s to 40 years old)
• Eight Consecutive Sundays, January 21 – March 10

Daniel Allen has been a member of the Newsong Family since 2015, and currently serves on the worship team playing drums. He works with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship directing campus ministers who serve students at colleges and universities across Orange County. Daniel currently lives in Tustin with his wife Charissa, who is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Santa Ana, and their daughter Talia, who excels at being cute.

Daniel, why are you excited for this inductive scripture study at Newsong?

“A huge part of my job is creating spaces for young people to fall deeply love in with the Bible and allow scripture to impact their lives and relationships. I’m hoping that this will be a similar experience for our Newsong young adults. I’m excited for this gathering to be a space to meet new people and study the Bible in an engaging way.”

It’s a night of bringing our community together with live music, performances and competitions for both Best-tasting Salsa and Best Salsa Dancing – get ready to put your best salsa forward!

We’ll be featuring local vendors with arts, crafts, and food available for purchase. Basically, it’s like the ultimate Newsong date night where you can also get a head start on Christmas shopping, all happening under the magic of twinkle lights.

If you’d like to join the team as a volunteer, please register below!

For more info about how to get involved, send an email to our team here!

We would love for you to serve with us at any one of the holiday events this season!

• Saturday, December 9th — Scholarship Prep Holiday Event

• Saturday, December 9th — Winter Market

• Sunday, December 24th — Christmas Service – Hospitality, Greeting, and NS Kids

• Sunday, December 24th — Christmas Eve Service

Let us know when and where you’d like to serve, and we’ll reach out to you within a couple of days with all the information!

Swing into the Good Times!

Whether you’re a seasoned golfer or just starting out, come tee off and connect with us! Immerse yourself in an afternoon of swings, smiles, and shared moments on the links.

Don’t miss out on the fun—grab your clubs and join us for a golf-tastic time. See you on the green!

This is a guided silence & solitude experience curated to help each participant to cultivate a deeper connection with God and learn to hear His voice while enjoying the beauty of the outdoors. Participants will gather at Hart Park in the City of Orange (just a few blocks south of the Orange Circle).

Questions: email Ed Salas at: ed.salas@newsong.net

We’re excited to introduce you to some of the different ways you can get involved and help you ACTIVATE – we want Newsong to be a place where “Everyone Plays.”

This happens by creating space to “Eat, Share and Play” together. Come EAT with us, hear us SHARE about all of the ways you can get involved and PLAY with us!