A Prayer for Eastside Bellflower

As 2018 approaches, the Eastside campus in the City of Bellflower is getting close to being ready to explode into that community. Campus pastor, Marcos Garcia, and his amazing staff are bringing the spirit of Eastside, the heart of God, and the life-changing message of Jesus into an area that is hungry for Good News.

I wrote the following prayer/poem last month, and now publish it with the following requests:

• If you call Eastside your church home, print out the prayer so you can fold it up and carry it with you to help remind you to pray each day to support God’s work in the City of Bellflower… and beyond.
• If you worship and serve somewhere other than Eastside, print out the prayer so you can fold it up and carry it with you to help remind you to pray each day to support God’s work where YOUR church has an outreach ministry. Just substitute YOUR outreach area for Bellflower and YOUR church for Eastside.
• If you don’t have a church home, this prayer is inviting you to join us at any of our Eastside campuses. I invite you to come experience a place where you can connect with a community that cares, and where you can belong and grow, and… begin to unleash your compassion.

A Prayer for Eastside Bellflower

by David Alan Hoag  --  November 28, 2017

In Bellflower, we’ve made a place,
A place where someone cares.
Everyone can’t go along,
So we send our heartfelt prayers.

Eastside is a church that blooms
In locations far and wide.
We pursue God, build small groups,
And unleash compassion’s tide.

We’re not just home to all the saved,
To all our Christian brothers;
We’re living out our Pastor’s dream
Of sharing Christ with others.

And men and women, young and old
And those that still abuse
Alcohol, or drugs, or worse
Have need of the Good News.

Come offer your obedience
In baptism’s waters
Come die to sin, and then you’ll be
Reborn… God’s sons and daughters!

Our prayer for Bellflower, and beyond:
That we share with grit and nerve
An Eastside where communities
Belong, and grow, and serve.


Your brother in Christ,

Dave