Safe Harbor Orange County

To kick off Pride Month, we’re launching our new Haven LGBTQ+ Small Group Series: Healthy Q***r Relationships.

This series was created collaboratively by a group of Haven leaders from diverse backgrounds and experiences within the q***r community. Together, we wanted to build something honest, inclusive, and deeply meaningful.
Many of us in the LGBTQ+ community were never given healthy relationship models to follow. For some, we didn’t even know our q***rness was an option for much of our lives. Because of that, many of us have had to navigate relationships without the guidance, representation, or affirmation we deserved.

Through the power of community, collaborative leadership, and trusted resources, we’ve created a series we are truly proud of.
We also recognize the incredible diversity within q***r relationships and identities. Many of us have experienced the effects of compulsive heterosexuality (“comphet”)—the assumption that heterosexuality is the default orientation, reinforced both consciously and subconsciously throughout society. Others have felt pressure to pursue romantic or sexual relationships even when they are ace, single, disabled, or simply living differently than cultural expectations demand.

Our community reflects a wide range of relationship experiences and models: monogamous, polyamorous, dating, single, engaged, married, and everything in between. We believe all of us can benefit from conversations about healthier q***r relationships—without placing marriage on a pedestal as the ultimate or holiest way to live in relationship.

After all, Jesus—the model we follow at SHOC—was single. His life centered community, connection, and chosen family. What an irony that many Christians have treated marriage as the highest spiritual ideal when the holiest person in our faith tradition was never married at all.

Join us Wednesday nights beginning this Wednesday:
Dinner at 6:30 PM
Discussion at 7:00 PM

Happy Pride Month, SHOC!

This week, we continue our series A Faith That Resists Empire with a communal conversation about bodies, burnout, rest, and resistance.

In our Sunday’s sermon, Bodies Are Not Machines: Rejecting Hustle, Embracing Slowness, we’ll explore how empire has long taught us to treat bodies as objects to control, exploit, commodify, and optimize — from colonized bodies forced into labor and stripped of dignity, to modern systems that measure human worth through productivity, performance, consumption, and even curated leisure.

Rather than a traditional sermon alone, this gathering will center a live conversation with Ryan Chin and Jordyn Dahlke as we reflect together on hustle culture, spiritual formation, identity, embodiment, rest, and what it means to reclaim our humanity in a world obsessed with achievement and optimization.

Together, we’ll reflect on how empire disconnects us from our bodies, one another, and the earth through systems of colonization, capitalism, performance, and commodification — and how tuning into earth’s rhythms, slowness, embodiment, and Beloved Community can help us reclaim our shared humanity and interconnectedness while offering a more grounded, compassionate path for the spiritual life.

📍 Guin Foss Elementary

🕰 Sunday at 10:30 AM

This week, we continue our series A Faith That Resists Empire by exploring the paradoxes we carry in faith, community, and ourselves.

Together, we will explore how Jesus models a faith that does not escape suffering or paradox, but enters fully into it with compassion, community, and resistance.

At the heart of this sermon is the invitation to stay watchful:
to notice the sacred in those often overlooked,
to confront our own contradictions with honesty,
and to discover truth not through certainty, but through presence within the paradox.

📍 Guin Foss Elementary
🕥 Sunday at 10:30 AM