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Elect Joshua Correa for Placentia City Council District 1, a father & trusted community advocate
Story time! Find out what is happening with Joshua's Campaign and get a glimpse into the history of the City, County and some personal perspective.
Story time! Find out what is happening with Joshua's Campaign and get a glimpse into the history of the City, County and some personal perspective.
Do Not Worry!
The Fear Separates us
Regardless of your political affiliation, do not worry! Though there is plenty to worry about, we find this question in Luke 12 relevant for our time. "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? "
Its is not a man that will ensure goodness and mercy throughout our land. We find in 2 Chronicles that if God's people who are called by my name would humble themselves and pray, that God would hear and answer them.
Folks who do not prescribe to any faith rejoice when they see believers humbling themself and acting in accordance with their faith. It is much easier to work with someone who is humble and is praying God's blessing and mercy over your life.
Joshua prays weekly with other Pastors for our community and for its leaders. Join us in praying for the community, bless us by hearing each other. Create a difference in Placentia, one that is not marked by strife, but by brotherhood and understanding.
Fear is the enemy, because it divides us, but even Jesus prayed in John 17 that we would be one. I want to see Jesus' prayer answered and I hope you do too.
Are we ever going to see the train station?
We were promised a 1million dollar influx from revenue with the addition of a train platform with minimum departure times.
Though we need to be asking some other questions along with economic benefit questions?
What are some of your concerns or issues surrounding the train station? You can read further about Joshua's thoughts in the issues tab.
Teen Horizon's
Teen Horizon's
Collaboration in action to benefit our children!
Spring Break Program
Spring Break Program
We are constantly trying to figure out how we can support the youth and the next generation to gain access to life giving opportunities that will help to inspire, guide and support healthy choices & lifestyles.
Working with Well of Life Church, LOT 318 & Cultivating Growth we identified a few areas of need and then did something about it.
We brought the Aquarium of the Pacific tide pool van to the community and then took the kids to a Whale watching trip, sea lion rescue and a beach clean up. This spring break program exposed children to our wonderful ocean wildlife and opportunities to work with them. Literally expanding students career Horizons.
How it started
How it started
This whole project started when we started to update a mural at Well of Life Church and thought, how could we be a resource to connect kids to the wonder found in our ocean. On the other side of the collaboration coin, Capt Dave's Dolphin & Whale watching group was already talking with LOT318 and with some grant funding, planning and plenty of helpers we created a great program.
Teen Art Classes
Teen Art Classes
We have a good time spreading light in our community.
If you want to help come join the collaborative or contact us.
Additionally, out of relationships we respond to what is happening in our community. In response to a local tragedy we worked to petition the city and secured speed bumps, speed monitoring and dedicated turn signals by Valdez & Melrose schools. Joshua Correa created the petition and Letty Gali brought several residents to advocate for its adoption. Sandra Gonzales with the City secured funding from Safe Routes to School grant to make what started as a petition a reality. When we work together we can make a difference in our community. When Council members, community members and other stake holders are all pulling in the same direction, we can accomplish much with measurable impact.
I was at Cal State Fullerton's library the day of 9/11. It was a day like any other, until it was a day like no other. A silent day, both with a sting and a numbness. The brash way we unconsciously treat each other as we hurry through our days gave way to a respectful, contemplative awe for the value of life and what others may be going through. It felt as if every third person was connected to someone near ground zero. All of us wondering if our friends were safe. I was in New York the year before attending college, I thought about my friends and the people I knew; could they have been in the wrong place that morning? The quiet respect others demonstrated around me that morning was like a soothing balm. Honestly, I had been depressed prior to 9/11and through the tragedy it put our lives in perspective. I found a renewed faith in humanity.
As a minister life can get so heavy, like your wearing the coat of shame dripping in despair that builds up as injustice and hurt crash against you relentlessly. Jesus took on that burden in the garden. Yet we don’t gaze only at the foot of the cross with the weight of Christs words "my God oh my God why have you forsaken me," but we look up surrounded by a cloud of witnesses to a risen king who conquered sin, shame and death. That’s what it felt like that morning. Joy and sorrow deeply mingled. Like all the pain was just washed away as we saw each other with tenderness and compassion. We grieved as a country, we grieved as a people.
I created 3 artworks over the years about 9/11. The first was symbolic illustrative allegory was about coming together over tragedy and holding onto hope because life is precious. The second one was about standing in the midst of tragedy to hold up who we are as a people, that freedom comes with a cost and it’s banner is honored through our collective struggle. The third work of art was about tapping into that source of strength by remembering those times & tragedies. Hurts that reminds us compassion lives here as well and from that source it washes over our current issues that divide us.
We need to be reminded, for our faith to be restored, for that healing to wash over us again in the midst of our current struggle. I encourage you to think about all those who died for freedoms sake to secure yours. To honor them by coming together and supporting one another.
Fellow American you are not my enemy, you are my brother. We are one house united choosing to stand through the sorrow. Let us pray for ourselves that we not fall without someone close at hand to pick us up. I pray for compassion to wash over our country and a freshness to restore our hope as a people.
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