Karla Can is the Executive Director of the Immigrant Hope office at Shoreline Community Church (EFCA) in Santa Barbara, CA. This is the highest-volume Immigrant Hope office, and it operates alongside a community education program. They have also developed significant partnerships with other local churches, nonprofits, colleges, businesses, and foundations to serve the community.

To learn more about Immigrant Hope Santa Barbara please visit: https://www.immigranthopesb.org/

Follow them on Instagram: @immigranthopesb

JM's Album Of The Week: Young Oceans - Daydreamer (Single)

Bradford's Book Club: The Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine: A Biblical Theology of Alcohol by John Anthony Dunne

SVCC member Molly McLain joined us this week to talk about her missions trip with Jonathan and others to Cuba earlier this year and more!

JM's Album Of The Week (Molly's Pick): Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Bradford's Book Club (Molly's Pick): The Indwelling Life of Christ: All of Him in All of Me by Major Ian Thomas

On this week's episode Brad explores the themes from his sermon this past Sunday titled "The Goodness of Finitude". We also catch up with JM and hear about his trip to Italy. Don't worry college football fans, there is a quick Sports Break!

JM's Album Of The Week: Stephen Wilson, Jr. - Blankets

Bradford's Book Club: CSB Connecting Scripture New Testament

(UPDATE!!!!) THE FILE HAS BEEN FIXED FOR THIS WEEK'S PODCAST. ENJOY!

This week's episode features the audio from a staff training seminar that Jonathan gave to the Big Oak Ranch about grief. To learn more about the Big Oak Ranch click here.

John-Mark also graces us with a very passionate and ridiculous Sports Break segment.

This week we continued our ongoing meet a member series with an interview with SVCC member Kyle Thompson!

JM's Album Of The Week: Young Oceans - Cutting Through (Single)

Bradford's Book Club (Kyle's Pick): Heaven Taken By Storm by Thomas Watson

This week the Midweek crew is joined by Shades Kids leader Joely Coker to discuss the brand new Discipleship Hour that launched this past Sunday at Shades!

JM's Album Of The Week: Justin Bieber - SWAG

Bradford's Book Club (Joely's Pick): The New City Catechism

This week we interviewed Ben Johnson, director of Immigrant Hope. Immigrant Hope equips churches to provide immigrants with The HOPE of the gospel, HELP finding a pathway to legal residency, and a HOME in a church that cares for their needs. For more information visit their website https://www.immigranthope.org/.

JM's Album Of The Week: Lord Huron - Cosmic Selector, Vol. 1

Bradford's Book Club: The Bible and Borders: Hearing God's Word on Immigration by M. Daniel Carroll R

The interview we had scheduled for this week had to cancel last minute so here's an impromptu episode where Jonathan, Brad, and John-Mark catch up with each other. They cover what they've been up to this summer as well as what's been happening at Shades and what is to come!