Yellow circular logo reading “Cultivate 2024” and “Sandiego.ca Parish Collective,” featuring a black sprinkler silhouette over a coral sunburst.

Cultivating the love of God in and across our neighborhoods

Cultivate is a conference-like regional gathering hosted in San Diego, CA, curated to help us to find and connect with each other, be inspired for the journey ahead and tap into the collective resources for how to faithfully be the church in our neighborhoods.

This year we kicked off on Friday night with concert at St. Luke's, featuring a variety of talented local musicians and poets from various neighborhoods across San Diego.

Love Thy Neighborhood concert flyer featuring performers Nico Christine, Ohmega Watts, Kimo Shim, Jeremiah Bonds, Karruzza, Jesus Gonzalez, Derek Rice, Mangosauss, and Julius Obregón Jr.; January 19, 2024, at St. Luke’s North Park in San Diego.

Saturday looked more like past expressions of Cultivate, with grounded liturgy and music, curated conversations and breakouts, connection spaces, shared meals and compelling talks to cultivate the love of God in and across our neighborhoods.

Featuréd speaker Ben McBride, peacemaker, activist, and author of Troubling the Water, in a promotional event banner.

SOME OF OUR BREAKOUT TOPICS

  • Fostering Belonging Workshop

    with Ben McBride

  • Church in Place and the Necessary work of Civic Engagement

    with Christine Nolf

  • Reimagining our Church Buildings in, with, and for the Neighborhood

    with Derrick Miller, Nate Cadieux, and Ryan Sisson

  • Conflict Competent Neighboring

    with Stephanie Mahan

  • Music, the Arts and Centering Creatives for Neighborhood Good

    with Jordan Mageo-Sausser

  • North Park Neighborhood Listening Walk

    with Rev. Colin Mathewson and Michael Mata

  • Pilgrimage Dreaming: Venturing Into the Story of our Places

    with Montague Williams

  • The Craft of Neighborhood Collaboration

    with Stasi McAteer and Carter Moss

  • Sacred Ecosystems: Reimagining Spaces of Spiritual Growth and Belonging in a Post-Institutional Culture

    with Rob Yackley and Chelsea Long

THANK YOU TO OUR 2024 SPONSORS!

Black banner featuring Moniker Group, Covenant Church, and Makers Church logos.
Musicians performing in a church with a large cross, string lights, candles, microphones, and instruments.
Teacher presenting a worksheet to students in a colorful elementary school classroom
Woman speaking into a microphone during a live music event with musicians, instruments, and audience members in a church or auditorium
Promotional graphic for Songs of Place featuring a church concert venue, audience, string lights, and colorful profile artwork with text reading “Stream Songs of Place Now!”

Parish Collective is a Christ-following ecumenical network bringing people together across intersections and distance. Our main point of unity lies in learning to be the church in each of our unique neighborhoods. When we connect across places, we find the power of God’s love to be healing and transformative. This means we may not agree on everything, but we have a mutual commitment to love and respect, especially protecting those on the margins of our differences.