Looking to connect, make friends, or find your people?

You’re not alone — and we’d love to meet you!

Join us in the Courtyard at 1pm (right after the 11am service) on Sunday, April 27th for a casual time to hang out, build community, and explore haven options.

The Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs is celebrating its one-year anniversary at the Orange County Immigrant Roundtable: Rewriting our Immigrant and Refugee Story, A Collective Chapter. We’d love for you to join us for this special event!

This gathering will be a meaningful space to celebrate, connect, and continue writing our collective story together.

We’re also looking for volunteer support from 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM. If you’re interested in helping out, please email lauren.marino@newsong.net, and we can connect you with the event’s volunteer coordinator.

All women are invited to join us for our Easter Brunch! This is a very special time for us as we have Jana Alayra leading us in worship as she shares about the gifts of Good Friday and Easter Sunday. There will be time to connect with old friends as well as make new ones. We will also have some reflective stations that have been designed to restore your soul. This event will have a catered brunch and childcare available, so please R.S.V.P. for this event (even if you are a registered member) so we can have an accurate headcount.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at moms@newsong.net!

If you’re in your 20s + 30s, we’d love to see you at our Game Night!

A young adult couple has opened up their home for a fun night of games at their house. We will have board games, Nintendo switch, and weather permitting a fire pit. You can play actively or just chill, we want it to be a safe place for all to come and hang out.

If you have a board game you want to bring to add to the night, feel free to bring it with you. Just sign up below for the location info.

Community Breakfast: Connecting to Serve Our Immigrant Refugee Neighbors

Join us for a meaningful morning of connection and inspiration as we gather to hear heartfelt stories and discuss practical ways to better serve and support our immigrant refugee neighbors. This event is an opportunity to learn, share, and strengthen our sense of community through faith and action.

For more information, email Lauren.Marino@newsong.net.

We look forward to seeing you there!

If you’re in your 20s and 30s, you’re invited to join the fun at the Whiting Ranch Wilderness Trail as we get some fresh air and connect together.

We’ll gather/stretch at 8am, then the hike starts at 8:15am and should last about 2 hours. Additional parking is available at the nearby lots in front of Ralphs.

If you’re a young adult or college-aged (18-22+), whether attending school, working, or taking a gap year, we’d love to have you join us for an evening of food, connection, and conversation!

Meet us on Saturday, March 15th for dinner and conversation with Skye Jethani at the Gibbons home (address provided in the confirmation email). It will be a fun night around the table!

Calling all young adults in your 20s and 30s! Whether you’re new to Newsong or have been with us for a while, come and join us for a night of good food, great conversations, and making connections. This is a perfect chance to bring friends, meet new people, and build community.

Cost is $20/person, but we don’t want finances to be a barrier—if you’re unable to cover the cost, your dinner can be taken care of! And if you’re in a place to give, we invite you to pay it forward and help cover the meal for someone else who can’t this season.

Come as you are and let’s enjoy an evening together!

Tableau is located in South Coast Plaza, and the address is:

3333 Bear St Suite 119, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Join Us for the 2024 Homeownership Event!

Newsong/Mix Academy is excited to partner with EPICENTER Foundation on November 9th from 1 PM to 4 PM to help first-time homebuyers!

Learn about buying your first home while networking with industry professionals. Enjoy panel discussions, raffles, and giveaways, plus free snacks and plenty of freebies from our amazing sponsors.

This event is free and open to everyone – don’t miss out!

Spread the word!

Thirteen Newsong artists invite you to learn about domestic abuse, mental health, racism, urban art, environmental destruction, and immigrant youth, through an interactive evening of spray paint, visual installations, turntable mixing, plant-based card making, the SIMS video game, music, and breakdancing. Parental supervision is advised as the content discusses domestic abuse and is not appropriate for all audiences. Light refreshments will be provided.

This exhibit is curated and produced by Susan Y. Shimazu, Tamara Fairbanks, and Ritchie Kong in partnership with Newsong Church, the City Seminary of New York, and The Expression Project, with funding from the Lilly Endowment’s Religion Initiative.

Highlighted Artists include:

Jenn Detroit – Street Artist and Designer

Jenn’s passion is to bring street and cultural art to life in classroom where it can be understood and not silenced. Street art and graffiti can often be judged and disregarded by mainstream society as vandalism when in fact street art enables and gives voice to individuals who don’t otherwise have a voice or space to be seen or heard. In collaboration with her students, Jenn has co-created visual street art that gives voice to the unheard.

Sarah Dornbos – Sculptor and Educator

Sarah invites Christians into envisioning a world without racism. She has designed an aspirational tree that incorporates the dreams of over 50 evangelical Christians of the world they would like to see realized by addressing racism in all its forms, personal, structural, and societal. Her living tree of anti-racism was cultivated in conversation with Bernadette Arthur’s Tree of Racism.

Tamara Fairbanks – Musician and Educator

Tamara’s passion is to obliterate the fear that people have in the creative process. Too many times people stop expressing themselves due to the fear of making a mistake. This project shows that mistakes can be beautiful. Some will take small steps others will take large steps, but together, we will create something beautiful and meaningful.  Using a keyboard , music recording software, and colored dots to aid the participants in the creative musical process Tamara will assist participants in creating musical works.

Olivia Garcia – Artist and Survivor

Olivia is a survivor of domestic violence and currently works as an advocate in the Spanish speaking communities for women seeking pathways out of harm. She has shepherded six women who will be sharing their stories anonymously through their paintings as a part of an effort to bring awareness to the impact of DV on women and their families.

Tori Gray – Visual Artist

Using sketches and video, Tori’s designs create a safe place for participants and other CPTSD survivors to explore the pain that may often be hidden by shame and stigma. She invites each person into community through the sharing of her experience, strength, and hope. She illustrates her journey in Al-Anon and her faith through the evolution of a special bunny.  Her piece is titled “A Day with the Grays”.

Dan Emmerie Hadinata – DJ and Curator of Arts and Culture

Dan “DJ Audible” has been working with local churches and in the Santa Ana arts community for over 18 years.  Bringing together artists of different expressions from the Saint City hip-hop community, he invites you to participate in a safe space of expression, where the learning and worship of God can be more than the traditional methods of reading and singing. Urbanartsoutreach.org

Grace Hadinata – Environmentalist and Artist

Grace has witnessed the devastating impact of overproduction and waste on the global community, particularly in her homeland, the Philippines. As an environmentalist and watercolor artist, she has created a visual piece that invites participants into commitments to care for creation and restore hope for the vulnerable.

Teresa Huang – Musician and Social Worker

Teresa is a musician and educator who works with immigrant youth who are enrolled in an English Language Development program. She has included them in the creation of a musical piece that introduces the experiences of second-language English speakers and the challenges they face as newcomers to the United States. Teresa hopes to make visible the needs of this often-overlooked population of youth.

Ritchie Kong – Street Artist and Visual Designer

Ritchie’s installation showcases a montage of moving elements which explore and deconstruct the Model Minority Myth. One screen shows the presumptuous generalization of how Asians are perceived, exploring imposed stereotypes on racialized groups, the other reveals the life of post-war refugees in their struggles to navigate American culture and integrate into a new society

Sunny Lee – Social Worker and Artist

As a social worker, Sunny has observed many of the barriers which prevent individuals from diverse racial and socio-economic backgrounds from accessing mental health resources. In a creative and interactive experience using the SIMS video game she will help participants explore what the ideal therapy setting looks like for diverse communities.

‘Bboy Don’ Sevilla – Breakdancer and Urban Artist

Don started breakdancing as a youth back in 1982. Ever since then, he has been blessing dance communities and charities across Southern CA by sharing his love of the art form. In relation to Newsong, he was a member of the church’s dance crew “In Rhythm with Him” in 2005, which later led to launching @SaintCityHipHop in 2007 at the 10ten location and serving periodically at Mix Academy. You can now catch him alongside other faith-driven urban artists every first Saturday of the month at Santa Ana Art Walk.

Susan Y. Shimazu – Social Practice Artist and Educator

As a Japanese American whose parents were incarcerated in the U.S. concentration camps, Susan has seen firsthand how fearmongering creates hate. To address bias and stigma in the evangelical church, Susan has designed a color-filtered font and invites participants into the creation of eye charts that illuminate the issues that arise when we lack the ability to see others through a lens of love.

Jie Tian – Poet and Gardener

A poet and traditional arts/culture bearer, Jie practices EarthArt through writing, ink/paper/book making, and by tending a garden for art materials. She will offer a workshop where participants can experience spontaneous creativity to make prints and drawings by using words and fresh flowers/leaves on paper. She hopes to inspire self-sufficiency, ecological awareness, peace, and healing through sustainable art practices.

Catch some waves with us!

Are you wanting to ride the waves and enjoy the ocean breeze? Whether you’re a seasoned surfer or just starting out, our Surf Haven is the perfect place to improve your skills, meet new friends, and have a blast!

What to Bring: Surfboard, wetsuit, sunscreen, and a great attitude! Non-surfers are invited to join as well for some early morning beach time.

An evening of storytelling to transform and inspire.

Join us on Friday evening for a powerful event where voices of resilience and change take center stage. “Resilient Voices: Unveiling Injustice, Inspiring Action” invites individuals who have faced injustice to recount their experiences, reflect on the impact of injustice in their lives, and inspire others with their journeys toward creating positive change.

When you join us, you’ll grapple with injustice and have to ask yourself: “What can I do in my life, with my community and with my strengths, to ensure that my society uplifts and protects the divine dignity of each of my neighbors?”

As we prepare for Newsong’s 30th anniversary gala, we are looking to choose six finger-food appetizers from our community that remind you of HOME. You can use the form below to sign up to have your dish tasted on Sunday, August 25th.

If your dish is selected you will have the choice to share your recipe with the Seeds + Sparks Team for them to prepare or keep it secret and prepare 500 servings for the gala on October 5th. If you need assistance purchasing ingredients, please indicate so on the form. We would love to have you and the story behind your recipe highlighted at the gala as well. We are so excited and thankful for your participation.

Please contact Rhiannon (rhiannon.toan@newsong.net) with any questions!

Kaleidoscope Women are proud to take you “Through the Looking Glass” – a tea party to help find ourselves in a mad world. It will be a magical morning as we hear some wisdom from our panelists, Rehana Rodriguez and Rebecca Gibbons.

We encourage all guests to dress up according to the Wonderland theme.

Childcare is also available – use the link below to register!

Any questions, please contact kaleidoscope@newsong.net.

Ignite your faith and join hundreds of believers and community organizations for an evening that will inspire action.

Together, we’re overturning the tables of our broken society and centering love as we grapple with the challenges of war, racism, poverty, inequality, unjust immigration policies, and violence.

Experience powerful speakers, soul-stirring music, and thought-provoking art that showcase a growing movement of Christians committed to embodying Jesus’ radical love.

This free, open-to-all event isn’t just a celebration – it’s a movement shaping the very heart of Christian engagement in our world.

Doors open at 5:30pm and the celebration begins promptly at 6pm.

Don’t worry about childcare—we’ve got you covered! Newsong Kids will be providing care for your little ones (6 months to 4 years old) so you can fully enjoy the celebration.

For kids aged 5 years up to 4th grade, we’ll have a fun-filled night of games, pizza , and sharing the incredible story of Newsong as we celebrate 30 years together.

We can’t wait to see you and your family there!

Communi-Tea is Steeping!

We’re cozying back up for another round of home-hosted tea gatherings — and you’re invited! This May, we’re hosting a special Tea-Potluck at the lovely home of our very own Sukkyung! What’s a Tea-Potluck, you ask? Simple: bring your favorite tea and a snack to share. Sweet, savory, herbal, caffeinated — all flavors welcome. Whether you’re new or a regular, all are welcome to join in the steeped goodness of quality conversations and connection.

📅 Date: Saturday, May 17th, 2025

⏰ Time: 1:00PM-3:00PM PT

📍 Location: Sukkyung’s Residence (Irvine – address shared upon RSVP)

🌟 Open to: Anyone craving community and a warm cup

💰 Gratuity: $5 suggested donation

💃🏻 Dress code: Cozy chic

Let’s sip, snack, and steep in good company!

Many people wonder about prayer and ask soul-searching questions about prayer…

• What is the real purpose of prayer?
• What does it mean that, “prayer moves the hand of God?”
• Why are my prayers sometimes answered and other times they are not?
• Do I still need to pray, even if I don’t have “the gift of prayer?”

These and many more questions will be answered in this interactive workshop. We will examine some different modalities of prayer and how each one is an invitation from God to set into the intersection of the seen and unseen realms. This workshop promises to be a transformative experience for anyone who wants to learn how, “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” (James 5:16b, NIV)

About the Introduction to Prayer Workshop Presenter:

For the last 19 years Ed Salas has served as the Spiritual Formation Pastor at Newsong Church, a multi-site international church based in Santa Ana, CA. Ed is the author of the book, The Praying Church, Discovering What the Heart Longs for Through Prayer.

GOSPEL OF MARK – INDUCTIVE BIBLE STUDY

Facilitated by: Daniel Allen

• This study is expressly for young adults (20’s to 40 years old)
• Eight Consecutive Sundays, January 21 – March 10

Daniel Allen has been a member of the Newsong Family since 2015, and currently serves on the worship team playing drums. He works with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship directing campus ministers who serve students at colleges and universities across Orange County. Daniel currently lives in Tustin with his wife Charissa, who is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Santa Ana, and their daughter Talia, who excels at being cute.

Daniel, why are you excited for this inductive scripture study at Newsong?

“A huge part of my job is creating spaces for young people to fall deeply love in with the Bible and allow scripture to impact their lives and relationships. I’m hoping that this will be a similar experience for our Newsong young adults. I’m excited for this gathering to be a space to meet new people and study the Bible in an engaging way.”