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Center for Faith + Work Los Angeles
Summer Giving Campaign: The Next Chapter

This year has already marked a season of incredible momentum at the Center for Faith + Work Los Angeles—we’ve launched two 7-Week Faith + Work Courses, hosted our 9th Annual Conference, commissioned a new cohort of Framework Fellows, and welcomed Dr. Robert Covolo as our new Executive Director.

Now, as we look to the future, we invite you to help build what’s next.

Summer Giving Campaign: The Next Chapter
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Center for Faith + Work Los Angeles
2025 Celebration Banquet Round-Up

Our 2025 Faith + Work Conference: Rethinking Work gathered believers across vocations for a powerful day of learning and connection around God’s redemptive vision for business.

2025 Celebration Banquet Round-Up
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Center for Faith + Work Los Angeles
2025 Annual Faith + Work Conference Round-Up

Our 2025 Faith + Work Conference: Rethinking Work gathered believers across vocations for a powerful day of learning and connection around God’s redemptive vision for business.

2025 Annual Faith + Work Conference Round-Up
Theology
Steven Lindsey
Los Angeles Fires Response and Prayer

Here, we share a response and prayer for those impacted by the devastating fires in Los Angeles. Join us in lifting up the first responders, those who have suffered loss, and the community as they navigate this challenging time, praying that God’s grace and provision will be evident in the midst of darkness.

Los Angeles Fires Response and Prayer
Theology
Robert Covolo
The Power of Hope: Advent at Work

Advent is the season leading up to the birth of Christ. During this season Christians are called to enter a posture of hopeful anticipation as they re-enter the long-expected arrival of the Messiah. This is a season of hope—a season where we experience the power of anticipation. But Advent is not unique to the Christmas season. And hope is not merely a driver for religious people. The truth is, we are all narrative creatures living with desired outcomes (“hopes”) and, whether we see it or not, these hopes are the engines that drive our lives. 

Continue reading as Robert Covolo illustrates why we should reflect on the power of hope this Advent season.

The Power of Hope: Advent at Work

The Myth of Work-Life Balance

The Myth of Work-Life Balance

I’m just coming out of a very intensive season of work with many overlapping activities and needs. We recently experienced several mountaintop-like signs of God’s goodness and fruitfulness through our work this past year with great encouragement. Included in all this, however, is a sense of exhaustion and burnout. I need to slow way down, reflect, get some deep rest, experience beauty and joy, be with family and friends, and listen well to what God is calling me to in the coming season.

Read on to hear more as Steve Lindsey explores why work-life balance is a myth we mistakenly chase.

Working with the Risen Christ

Working with the Risen Christ

Easter is upon us. For many Americans, Easter means little more than bunnies, candy eggs, and Sunday brunch with the family. For those of faith, Easter is a day to dress up for church and celebrate Jesus rising from the dead. In short—for believers and unbelievers alike—Easter is associated with Sunday. But what does Easter tell us about our Monday? In other words, does Easter inform our work life?

Read on to hear more as Robert Covolo explores the picture the Gospel of John is offering us of what it means to live as followers of the risen Christ at our work.

The Impact of Good Work

The Impact of Good Work

During our Year-end Giving Campaign, we have been sharing a few stories from CFWLA participants on how they have seen their vision of work, relationship with God, and overall outlook on their lives change as a result of their experience with CFWLA's programming. Read on to hear these powerful testimonies from a few of our program attendees.

Christmas Cleanup

Christmas Cleanup

Modern Americans might love “Dirty Jobs,” but the show would have found little traction in the Ancient World. We would find the same “consumer trend” when it came to religion in the ancient world. The gods of the Ancient Near East were noted for their lives of luxury. In stark contrast to these gods is the God of the Bible. Read on to hear more as Robert Covolo explores God’s dirty jobs and the ultimate expression in the birth our Savior.

A Prayer for Biblical Equity at Work

A Prayer for Biblical Equity at Work

Earlier this month at Reimagining Work Vol. 11: Biblical Equity at Work, Myesha Reynolds, Founder of Equity Lens Consultants guided attendees through a conversation on understanding equity from a Biblical perspective—specifically in the workplace—and how can we confront misconceptions about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Read on as Myesha shares with us a prayer of encouragement and blessing when navigating this topic in our lives.

Worship for the Weekend – Part II

Worship for the Weekend – Part II

My surfing career reached its zenith in graduate school wherein my school schedule afforded surf most days. To top it off, I would celebrate the end of a semester by taking a solo surf trip in my VW camper up the coast. I met a lot of interesting people as I hit various surf spots from LA to Portland. It was on one of these trips while catching some early Sunday waves, I invited a guy I had met to go with me to church. His response was classic, “Nah brah, the ocean is where I worship.” 

In my last blog (see “Working for the Weekend”) I explored work’s relationship to the weekend. There I argued that we were made to embrace both work and rest as those made in the image of the God who works and rests. In passing, the blog touches on the fascinating and rich Biblical concept of the Sabbath. And here in Part II, Robert Covolo concludes his series with this second installment’s sights set on what the Bible teaches about the Sabbath.  

Working for the Weekend? – Part I

Working for the Weekend? – Part I

In 1981 the rock band Loverboy immortalized the line “Everybody’s Working for the Weekend.” The line was written by band member Paul Dean. According to Dean, one Wednesday afternoon he noticed the beach was empty and concluded, “Well, I guess they're all waiting for the weekend." It took well over three decades for the band Dirty Heads to respond to Dean’s lyric with their own infamous line, “A-a-ay, I'm on vacation every single day 'cause I love my occupation.” 

Do we work for the weekend? Or do we make our vocation our vacation?

Read on as Robert Covolo begins a two-part series on the sabbath, starting with a personal account of seeking rest in the San Bernardino Mountains.