Pasadena Mennonite is a leadership- development engine, a church that has churned out 50 leaders in mission, preaching and administration in the last 15 years.
Artists witness through chalk drawing at a community festival.
Calling themselves Urban Village, members move into homes on one block of Pasadena's most poverty-stricken neighborhood, forming an intentional Christian community that hopes to impact its neighborhood with its faith. Yet Pasadena Mennonite shunned traditional approaches. Rather than draw together Mennonites who had moved to California to flee their past, the congregation sought people drawn to an Anabaptist vision of church. The Mennonite Church becomes an asset. The Mennonite emphasis on justice and peace and its biblical evangelical sensibility is an attractive combination for people.