Elvis and I have been looking for a while for art to put up in our house to symbolize our love for and calling to LA, and when we found this on Etsy, we had to get it. This shot was taken from MacArthur Park, the neighborhood I've written about before where I did my internship this summer and where we plan on living in the future.
Our church is also doing a church plant in the neighborhood, and this past Sunday the pastor that we be leading that church spoke and gave some really amazing facts about the neighborhood, which is the most densely populated neighborhood west of the Mississippi: 130,000 people in a 2.5 square mile area (at least those are the people that were counted....I'm sure there were tons more unaccounted for due to the nature of the neighborhood).
And of all those people, there is not a single English-dominant church to meet the spiritual needs of the 2nd and 3rd generation immigrant youth living in the area.
The church plant is currently praying about the possibility of meeting in an empty grocery store lot in MacArthur Park, and it just so happens that it sits exactly on the site of where Pentecostalism started in 1906 with the Azusa Street Revival. The neighborhood is a place where immigrants find a piece of home and historical movements are birthed (including 2 major transnational gangs...) and we are humbled and thrilled about the possibility of being a part of what God is stirring up in that place that has snatched our hearts.
"Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper." Jeremiah 29:7
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