On Ramps Covenant Church

Screaming JOYFUL JOYFUL as well as singing and shaking our hips to Oh Happy Day 🎉 Sister Act the musical has announced their casting and our girl got the role as one of the nuns! 🥹 We are so proud and can’t wait to do what we do best as a community and that’s showing up for each other!!! Join us this Saturday to scan the QR code and go support by showing up to the Sister Act Musical 🎤 🎶

FYI singing in the stands are a must and choir robe is optional 😆

What a powerful night as we came to the alter surrendering all, withholding nothing, confessing, and being invited to forgive 😭

Amos thank you for your vulnerability tonight, reflecting on a hard season in your life when it seemed like the waves were overcoming you and how you found your way through by writing. Tonight Amos shared one of his many poems he wrote in 2020 and this one was centered on forgiveness.

It was with great joy but also a heavy heart, to be in the room with the writer as he unpacked his poem but also invited us to reflect and write our own. When Amos used the imagery of water he said “forgiveness isn’t a transaction. It’s a flow, from your heart to others. Shalom is the same way. Shalom isn’t transactional, it’s a beautiful movement just like streams of water.” We learned that the Greek word for forgiveness is defined as releasing, to let go, to send away any debt towards my accusers.

As always we invite you to join us every week at 6pm as we continue to dive deeper into Shalom.

For now, let us remember the words Amos shared with us tonight. Breathe. Just breathe. Have a good night family, you are deeply loved.

Come connect with us
Come smile with us
Come worship with us
Come pray for kids with us
Come hold laughing babies with us
Come pray with us
Come share a meal of remembrance with us
Come support one another with us
Come travel to CCDA with us
Come eat with us
Come cheer on our community with us

Come share life with us!

Because church is more than a place that we gather at, it’s a people we belong to. It’s worship and prayer, meals and laughter, showing up for our neighbors and showing up for one another. It’s remembering Jesus at the table and learning together what it means to follow Him in the everyday.

There’s room for you here.

Come as you are. Come bring your story. Come find community.
Come share life with us. 🤎

Can we be honest and say last weeks message is still pressed on our hearts and we are STILL unpacking all that Dr. Randy White laid out for us 🥹
From discussing enemies in scripture to hearing stories of sworn enemies from WWII, a Rwandan genocide survivor starting a charity with the man who was her enemy, to us reflecting in our own lives who is our enemy and that not being the end of the story. Why is it so hard for us to forgive much lesser hurts and pain and for us to love people who are hard to love. We should take after Jesus and know that it’s in our best interest to try.
Randy walked us through Matthew chapter 5 and stopping at the word perfect, instead of pushing past it Randy addressed it and taught us the word perfect in Greek means telios and tethered that to shalom. Telios means the state of wholeness, to join or bind together. When we are called to be perfect we are being called to seek harmony, to mend broken relationships, or a fractured society into a unified whole, to be impartial, to love the good and bad alike. And check this! Shalom means wholeness, unbroken, a life reflective of the perfect God! So perfection in this passage isn’t a call to achieve absolute absence of sin, but simply to follow the description of God from the text, demonstrating a commitment to the kind of impartiality that God demonstrates. Making it plain….equal love for Saint and sinner, friend and enemy alike.

Woooooo Randy that was good! Please everyone stay tuned to our YouTube channel as you will want to go back and hear the entire message. 🤗 we look forward to seeing you this Saturday at 6pm as we continue on in our theme of Shalom with the focus of Shalom With One Another

Hey everyone! We want to personally invite you tomorrow night to sit at the feet of a wise man who comes with 40 years of experience in seeking the peace of cities global and local. Join us as we continue to unpack Shalom With One Another 🤗 can’t wait to see you tomorrow night at 6pm!

This season, our students are learning to cultivate WONDER ✨🌱

Have you ever slowed down and noticed the flowers growing in our planter boxes? Or what about the stars filling the night sky. The sound of the wind. Even the stubborn little dandelion pushing its way through a crack in the sidewalk.

Well research has shown that experiencing awe can contribute to greater well-being. When we encounter something bigger than ourselves, our perspective begins to shift. The things that feel enormous can suddenly become a little smaller.

But we’re inviting our students to take it one step further.

What if the things that fill us with awe also turn our attention toward the One who made them?

Psalm 8:3 says, “When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers-the moon and the stars you set in place”

That’s what we’re cultivating through this season of Wonder. Children who LOOK. Children who NOTICE. Children who ASK QUESTIONS. Children who are learning to move through God’s world with their eyes and hearts wide open.

Because sometimes encountering the wonder of God begins with something as ordinary as stopping to notice a dandelion. 🌼

May we never become too hurried to wonder ✨

Shalom! 🫂 can you believe it’s August 20th already?Students and teachers are back in school and we are wrapping up our August series of Shalom with God. Pastors Erik and Jess are closing out our series this month, and I caught a sneak peak of Pastor Jess’ notes, shalom broken, shalom bought, and shalom offered…🤫shhhhh don’t tell her we told you! Also, Tuesdays nights we are continuing our study in James meditating on Gods wisdom. Join us Tuesdays and Saturdays at 6pm here at The Impact Center Fresno with dinner pot luck served every Tuesday night. We can’t wait to see you! SHALOM

We raise a hallelujah for prayers answered and prayers that carried us. For every person who has called this community home. Through every season God has been with us, so after 15 years, we still have a reason to lift our hands, lift our voices, and raise a hallelujah!

Last night we lifted our maracas and worshipped the Lord, thanking Him for 15 years! 🪇🙌🏽🎉

15 years of God’s faithfulness
15 years of community
15 years of stories, laughter, tears, worship, and doing life together!

Our quince was full of joy, and our hearts are full of gratitude. 🤗

Felices Quince, On Ramps! 💃🏽🎂🕊️
Here’s to the story God is still writing!!

Ok we couldn’t hold this in 🤭 and it totally isnt story worthy…yall MALACHI MADE A PIÑATA!!! Tonight is going to be so much fun!