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: What is the mission of your church? Pastor Emily McColl: To know Christ and make him known. That’s our formal mission, but perhaps it should be “To know Christ and make him known through friendship and service,” because that’s what I see them doing here. SDR : What’s your favorite subject on which to preach? PM: How completely reliable and dependable God is for us in all things. Even being through what I’ve been through and even after seeing what I’ve seen, I know God loves us so much he does everything he can to save us. He can be counted on.

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: What’s your favorite subject on which to preach? Pastor Scott Eng: How radical God’s grace is. That’s something we have a lot of human conceptions about, and his grace is always bigger than we expect. I find a lot of people have different backgrounds, whether spiritual or non-spiritual, and they all have an idea of who God is. If we misunderstand who God is and his character, then we have a misunderstanding of how he wants to love us and provide for us and feed us. I enjoy helping people have those “Ah-ha moments” where they see something new.

: What is the mission of your church? Pastor Evan Wickham: Our vision is “In San Diego, as it is in heaven” – which comes from Jesus’ prayer, “Our father who art in heaven, hallowed by thy name, thy kingdom come, they will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” So we apply that to our city. We want to see God’s good rule, his good, life-giving reign more and more in our city where lives are restored and injustice is eliminated. So that’s our vision; how we accomplish that – our mission – is that we are practicing the way of Jesus in San Diego. We do this in three ways: by ...