Views from The Ridge 2.4.26
Sunset Ridge is a church that desires to follow Jesus, reach people, and radiate God’s love and hope to all.
This Week’s Scripture: Acts 1:8
Wednesdays
You’re invited to Wednesday Nights at Sunset Ridge Church. Join us for a catered supper at 6:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall, followed by programming for children and high school students and a communal Scripture study for adults beginning at 6:30 PM. We wrap up by 8:00 PM. Come be part of our midweek rhythm. Contact Den with questions.
Sundays
Worship
9 AM, Chapel, Acapella
11 AM, Sanctuary, Instrumental
10:15 AM, Bible Class & Discipleship for All Ages
Fellowship Hall
Between the Words: A gathering between our community’s two worship times where we unfold the facets of weekly Scripture together. Join us from 10:15 - 10:45 each Sunday in the Fellowship Hall. Each week stands on its own; come as you’re able. Adults and teens welcome.
Chapel Classroom
Preparing for Rest: A free, optional pre-retreat class exploring different kinds of rest, connected to our upcoming women’s retreat. No registration required. Sundays through February 15. You’re welcome to attend the class, the retreat, or both.
Room 220
BOYS 5th - 7th Grade, Formation Study w/ Bryan Wolfe
GIRLS 5th - 7th Grade, Formation Study w/ Den Slater
Roots: Children’s Discipleship through Godly Play
Bible Story Focus this Week: The Power of The Spirit
Key Verse: Acts 1:8
Room 102, PreK - Kindergarten
Room 122, 1st - 2nd Grade
Room 209, 3rd - 4th Grade
Community Connections
Save the Date: Sprouts School Pasta Party Fundraiser
The Sprouts School Pasta Party Fundraiser will be held on our campus on Saturday, March 28th. Guests are invited to enjoy a shared meal along with a silent auction. Proceeds from the evening will support the Sprouts School Scholarship Fund, helping make the program more accessible to families. Tickets and additional event details are available through the event registration page.
Upcoming Community Events
Every Saturday, 9 AM - 1 PM, Sunset Ridge Farmers Market, Charis Park
Sundays through February 15th, 10:15 AM, Preparing for Rest Class, Chapel Classroom
Wednesday, February 18th, 6:30 PM, Ash Wednesday Service, Chapel
Saturday, February 21st, 9 AM - 1 PM, Community Garden Work Day, Charis Park
Friday, February 27 - Sunday, March 1, Sunset Ridge Women’s Retreat, Mo Ranch
Beyond Sunday
Oriented Toward Love
Jess Lowry, Executive Director & Pastoral Leader, Sunset Ridge Church & Sunset Ridge Collective
This Christmas at my parents’ house, I picked up the old game of Tetris again. I had forgotten how happy it makes my brain—the simple satisfaction of watching the pieces fall, rotating them just enough to find their place, and the quiet joy when a row clears and order briefly emerges.
Recently, I read a reflection from pastor and theologian Nadia Bolz-Weber, who described following the news as a game of Tetris—except this time, the blocks are dropping faster than we can shift them. There’s no pause button, no satisfying click into place. Just a relentless accumulation that leaves us scrambling to make sense of it all.
What we are living through feels both massive and molecular: something unfolding in our country and communities, and something happening deep within our own hearts. It’s impossible to ignore. And we are not made to absorb this much information, this much pain, all at once. I won’t speak for you, but I know that for me, there are moments when the sheer volume renders me almost helpless.
Last Sunday was one of those days.
I spent much of the weekend letting the news fall on me—moving from bearing witness to what our neighbors are enduring, to obsessively watching, tracking, and trying to rotate the blocks of information into something that made sense. Nothing fit. I was overwhelmed.
That evening, Nathan and I had committed to joining our friend and worship band member Morgan at Corazón San Antonio, where she leads. When we arrived, around 100 of our unsheltered neighbors were waiting in the cold. In less than 45 minutes, Morgan and her team transformed a daytime warming shelter into an overnight one. We cleaned mats. We welcomed people inside. We made eye contact. We handed out warm food and juice, a moment so ordinary and so extraordinary at the same time. My heart snapped out of the helpless overwhelm and remembered what I know, and what I always come back to, is this: we can all do something.
Preparing sleeping mats at Corazón Ministries.
Our world is shaped in patterns. What happens in the small ripples outward. The way we think, the words we choose, the actions we take in our little corner of the world—they shape what comes next. Change begins within us and radiates outward as practiced love.
Life is not colored blocks fitting into exact spaces. It is nuance, it’s the small tender moments of connection with one another. It is humanity in all of our magnificent beauty and all of our devastating flaws—complex and oh so messy.
As you continue to walk through this disorienting world, may you be oriented toward love—real love. Love that acts. Love that speaks. Love that changes things, even when the change feels small.
I’ll leave you with a haiku from a brilliant writer and friend, Whitney Fordham:
Always too small to
Carry the world, but never
Too small to change it.
