Start With One
For: Friends and coworkers
Invitation: Each household identifies and prays for its first +1
Breakfast: Breakfast burritos, fruit cups, café de olla
New Year · public launch
Every Sabbath starts with a free breakfast. Once a month, a special PLUS ONE Sabbath has its own theme and an upgraded breakfast — and four of them are Adopt-a-Place Sabbaths.
For: Friends and coworkers
Invitation: Each household identifies and prays for its first +1
Breakfast: Breakfast burritos, fruit cups, café de olla
New Year · public launch
For: People who live near us
Invitation: A neighborhood-around-the-church invitation challenge
Breakfast: Mini chilaquiles cups, fruit, coffee or tea
Friendship / Valentine’s weekend
For: All relationships
Invitation: Fill the adopted places
Breakfast: Breakfast tacos, fruit, café de olla
Easter weekend
For: People who need encouragement
Invitation: Personal, hope-centered invitations
Breakfast: Yogurt-parfait bar, breakfast quesadillas, coffee or tea
Easter follow-up
For: Extended family and friends
Invitation: Family invitation weekend
Breakfast: Mother’s Day tamal breakfast, fruit, café de olla
Mother’s Day weekend
For: Families
Invitation: Fill the adopted places with family connections
Breakfast: Breakfast burritos, fruit, coffee or tea
Father’s Day weekend / Juneteenth
For: Local community
Invitation: Community relationship activation
Breakfast: Breakfast tortas, fruit, coffee or tea
Independence Day weekend
For: Young families
Invitation: Family and school-network invitations
Breakfast: Chilaquiles cups, yogurt, coffee or tea
School and fall transition
For: Former and recent attendees
Invitation: Reconnect and fill the places
Breakfast: Breakfast tacos, fruit, café de olla
Fall attendance push
For: Friends and coworkers
Invitation: A simple one-person invitation
Breakfast: Tamal, fruit, hot chocolate or coffee
Rosario-season alignment (provisional)
For: Meaningful relationships
Invitation: Invite someone who has impacted you
Breakfast: Pumpkin oatmeal, breakfast quesadilla, coffee or tea
Thanksgiving weekend lead-in
For: Everyone
Invitation: The largest invitation Sabbath of the year
Breakfast: Christmas tamales, fruit, champurrado or coffee
Christmas Day falls on a Sabbath
Free every Sabbath, 9:45–10:15, first come, first served. Simple, healthy and rotating:
Common allergens are labeled when known. Coffee and tea every week.
March 27 · June 19 · September 11 · December 25
Four times a year, households adopt a place in the pews and invite people to fill it.
How Adopt-a-Place worksEvery special Sabbath is designed for first-time guests.