
Wellington Heights Community Church
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Pastoral scripture for embodied Christian community.
The gist
Wellington Heights Community Church blends scripture reading, sermon teaching, and guided reflection from a faith community. Its episodes move between pastoral encouragement, Lectio Divina, Lent, Holy Week, and the everyday work of love, resilience, generosity, and belonging.
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About Wellington Heights Community Church
Wellington Heights Community Church offers sermon audio and seasonal reflections from a Christian community centered on worship, reconciliation, and belonging. It is warm without being vague. The episodes in this run move through Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and a sermon series on flourishing faithfulness. Scripture is read aloud with care, often from the Common English Bible. The Holy Week episodes create a slower room. They linger with John’s Gospel through Lectio Divina, asking the congregation to stay close to Jesus rather than rush toward resolution. Maundy Thursday becomes a meditation on departure, shared meals, mutual service, and leaving behind what cannot make the journey. Good Friday stays at the foot of the cross. It gives sorrow, grief, and silence their proper place before Sunday arrives. Easter then widens the frame, connecting resurrection to chaos, political pressure, oppression, fear, and the hope that God’s power works inside untidy conditions. The regular sermon episodes carry a more conversational energy. Pastor Kian speaks directly from biblical texts into habits of generosity, the need for community, and the burden of failure. The widow’s two coins are not treated as a simple giving lesson, but as evidence of a formed relationship with generosity. Hebrews becomes a challenge to isolation and a reminder that flourishing is communal. Matthew becomes relief for people worn down by negativity, anxious striving, and the mistaken belief that grace must be earned. LD’s introductions and closings give the feed a consistent congregational feel, with scripture readings, welcome, and language of love and acceptance. The show’s register moves between contemplative and plainspoken. It can pause for breath, then turn practical quickly. Listeners looking for polished lecture-style theology may find it more church-floor than classroom. That is part of its character. Wellington Heights Community Church sounds like a local faith community working out Christian discipleship in public, emotional, and embodied terms.
Made for: For listeners seeking Christian sermons, Holy Week reflections, Lectio Divina, and faith teaching that connects scripture with community, grief, generosity, failure, and social pressure.
What sets it apart: The show pairs contemplative seasonal practices with conversational preaching that treats resurrection, grace, and belonging as realities for chaotic everyday life, not only private belief.
In their own words
Wellington Heights Community Church is a multi-cultural faith community joining God in reconciling all things through worship, reconciliation and neighborhood development.
As heard by us
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Pastor Kian turns biblical passages toward generosity, resilience, communal responsibility and hope within the pressures of everyday life.
Wellington Heights Community Church carries its Sunday service into audio with a dependable shape: LD, the Worship Arts and Tech Coordinator, reads a passage from the Common English Bible before lead pastor Pastor Kian delivers the sermon.
Why you'd press play
Pastor Kian takes resurrection out of the protective bubble, for faith that has to survive actual chaos.
Press play if you want
- biblical teaching that traces generosity back to habits formed before your circumstances turn scarce
- a case for needing people who do not look, think, or believe exactly like you
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Episodes
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Immerse 2025 - Leadership Development
·18m - 2
Good Friday 2026
·8m - 3
Maundy Thursday 2026
·11m - 4
Holy Week: Wednesday, Lectio Divina: John 13:21-32
·14m - 5
Holy Week, Tuesday: Lectio Divina - John 12:20-36
·13m - 6
Holy Week, Monday: Lectio Divina - John 12:1-11
·13m - 7
Palm Sunday 2026 , Matthew 21:1-11, CEB
·13m - 8
Lectio Divina: Isaiah 42:1-9
·17m - 9
Fourth Sunday of Lent: Psalm 23, CEB
·18m - 10
Lectio Divina: Joel 2:12-13
·12m - 11
Lent - Luke 21:1-4, CEB
·30m - 12
Lectio Divina: Matthew 4:1-11
·16m - 13
Flourishing Faithfulness: Community
·25m - 14
Flourishing Faithfulness: Resilience in the Midst of Failure
·26m - 15
Faithful Flourishing: Rhythms for a Flourishing Life
·17m - 16
Faithful Flourising
·29m - 17
Christmas Eve 2025
·14m - 18
Advent Week 4: Love As The Foundation of Generous Giving
·19m - 19
Advent Week 2: Peace Theme: Generosity and Gratitude
·14m - 20
Advent Week 1: Hope - Grounding our generosity in God‘s generosity
·26m - 21
Isaiah 65:17–25, CEB with Pastor Stephanie
·16m - 22
The Top 10 - Embodiment Sunday 11/09/2025
·11m - 23
Luke 19: 1-10, CEB with Pastor Keeyon
·28m - 24
Luke 18:1-8, CEB with Pastor Keeyon
·33m - 25
Lectio Divina Luke 17:11-19
·21m - 26
Embodiment Sunday - Lectio Divina 10/12/2025
·21m - 27
Luke 17:5-10 with Pastor Alice Murray
·16m - 28
Lectio Divina (Good Neighbors Day)
·15m - 29
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager with Pastor Michele Jones
·15m - 30
Lectio Divina - Ephesians 6:1-10, MSG
·18m - 31
The Friendship Crisis in Christianity
·26m - 32
Immerse 2025 - Imagine
·14m - 33
Five Years Later: A Guided Reflection on the Derecho
·19m - 34
Baptism 2025
·8m - 35
Immerse 2025 - Prophetic Presence
·10m - 36
Immerse 2025 - Church-based
·29m - 37
Holy Week - Easter Sunday, John 20:1-18, CEB
·32m - 38
Embodiment Sunday (June 22, 2025)
·12m - 39
Immerse 2025 - Listening to the Community
·36m - 40
Pentecost Sunday, Lectio Divina
·9m - 41
Stories Among Us (Kai & Jacob)
·12m - 42
Stories Among Us - Amara Andrews
·12m - 43
Stories Among Us - Gretchen Mundorf
·14m - 44
Stories Among Us - Janessa Carr
·19m - 45
Stories Among Us - Nick Lapointe
·12m - 46
Easter 2025
·20m - 47
Good Friday 2025
·20m - 48
Maundy Thursday & Visio Divina
·18m - 49
Palm Sunday 2025
·13m - 50
Psalm 32- Guest Speaker Anthony Betters
·40m - 51
Embodiment Sunday Vision Casting
·36m - 52
Guided Reflection Upon COVID-19 Pandemic
·26m - 53
Disconnect 40
·49m - 54
First Sunday of Lent: Luke 4:1-13, CEB
·16m - 55
Ash Wednesday Liturgy 2025
·17m - 56
Blessed Are The Peacemakers
·24m - 57
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger & Thirst
·29m - 58
Embodiment Sunday: Labyrinth Prayer
·15m - 59
Blessed are the Merciful
·27m - 60
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
·31m - 61
A Prayer for Election Day 2024
·6m - 62
Lectio Divina, Matthew 5:1-12
·18m - 63
The Beatitudes: Following The Call (Matthew 5:3)
·35m - 64
Vision Casting 2025
·9m - 65
Yearly Examen
·20m - 66
Lectio Divina, Christmas Eve 2024
·12m - 67
Lectio Divina, Luke 1:46b-55
·15m - 68
Lectio Divina, Isaiah 12:2-6
·15m - 69
Advent (Peace) Reflection
·5m - 70
Lectio Divina, Luke 1:68-79
·16m - 71
Lectio Divina, Luke 21:25-36
·19m - 72
Reconcile- Turn Toward God and One Another (Colossians 1:17-20, NIV)
·24m - 73
Reconcile- Turn Toward God and One Another (2 Corinthians 5-17-21, NLT)
·22m - 74
Reconcile: Turn Toward God and One Another (John 1:6-14, MSG)
·14m - 75
Reconcile: Turn Toward God and One Another (Lamentations 5)
·23m - 76
Reconcile: Turn Toward God and One Another (Genesis 1:24-31 & Genesis 2:1-4, CEB)
·28m - 77
Friendly Fire (Repost)
·21m - 78
Reconcile: Turn Toward God and One Another (1 Corinthians 13)
·21m - 79
Reconcile: Turn Toward God and One Another (1 Corinthians 13, MSG)
·27m - 80
Reconcile Sermon Series 2024
·8m - 81
Baptism Sunday 2024
·22m - 82
Wellington Heights Histories with Eric Gutschmidt
·36m - 83
Embodiment Sunday: Lectio Divina with the Wind
·17m - 84
Embodiment Sunday: Prayer & Art Meditation on Psalm 139
·21m - 85
Body Scan - June 2, 2024
·27m - 86
Pentecost Sunday - May 19, 2024
·21m - 87
Happy Mother’s Day 2024
·6m - 88
Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil - May 5, 2024
·28m - 89
Embodiment Sunday: Flourishing Neighborhood Index (04/14/2024)
·33m - 90
Second Sunday of Eastertide - April 7, 2024
·27m - 91
Easter 2024
·28m - 92
Good Friday 2024
·14m - 93
Maundy Thursday 2024
·16m - 94
Lenten Prayer 2024: Lectio Divina 03/27/24
·11m - 95
Palm Sunday 2024
·29m - 96
Lenten Prayer 2024: Meditation on Rev. Dr. MLK “I Have a Dream
·26m - 97
Lenten Prayer 2024 - Lectio Divina 03/17/2024
·25m - 98
Lenten Prayer 2024: The Welcoming Prayer
·3m - 99
Lenten Prayer Practice 2024: A Prayer of Blessing
·6m - 100
Reconciliation, Neighborhood Development, & Worship with Anthony Betters Jr.
Anthony Betters Jr.
·28m - 101
Holy Week - Easter Sunday, John 20:1-18, CEB
Hidden gemA scripture reading of John 20:1-18 for Easter Sunday at Wellington Heights Community Church.
Apr 5, 2026·32m·2 clips - 102
Good Friday 2026
A guided reflection for Good Friday, inviting listeners to read John 18-19 and sit with the sorrow of the cross.
Apr 3, 2026·8m - 103
Maundy Thursday 2026
A guided reflection on Maundy Thursday, focusing on Jesus washing his disciples' feet and the new commandment to love one another.
Apr 2, 2026·11m - 104
Holy Week: Wednesday, Lectio Divina: John 13:21-32
A guided Lectio Divina reflection on John 13:21-32 for Holy Week Wednesday, focusing on staying close to Jesus as the tone shifts from celebration to heaviness.
Apr 1, 2026·14m - 105
Holy Week, Tuesday: Lectio Divina - John 12:20-36
A guided Lectio Divina reflection on John 12:20-36 for Holy Week Tuesday, inviting listeners to linger with Jesus amidst tension and uncertainty.
Mar 31, 2026·13m - 106
Holy Week, Monday: Lectio Divina - John 12:1-11
Mar 30, 2026·13m - 107
Palm Sunday 2026 , Matthew 21:1-11, CEB
Mar 29, 2026·13m - 108
Lectio Divina: Isaiah 42:1-9
Mar 22, 2026·17m - 109
Fourth Sunday of Lent: Psalm 23, CEB
Mar 15, 2026·18m - 110
Lectio Divina: Joel 2:12-13
Mar 8, 2026·12m - 111
Lent - Luke 21:1-4, CEB
Hidden gemPastor Kian says giving should come from a "relationship with giving," not guilt, fear, or obligation.
Mar 1, 2026·30m·1 clip - 112
Lectio Divina: Matthew 4:1-11
Feb 22, 2026·16m - 113
Flourishing Faithfulness: Community
Hidden gem"It is not good for man to be alone" becomes a case for community, not isolation.
Feb 15, 2026·25m·1 clip - 114
Flourishing Faithfulness: Resilience in the Midst of Failure
Hidden gemPastor Kian of Wellington Heights Community Church argues that failure is part of life and need not be treated as proof that someone is outside Christ.
Feb 1, 2026·26m·1 clip - 115
Faithful Flourishing: Rhythms for a Flourishing Life
Jan 25, 2026·17m - 116
Faithful Flourising
Jan 11, 2026·29m - 117
Christmas Eve 2025
Dec 24, 2025·14m - 118
Advent Week 4: Love As The Foundation of Generous Giving
Dec 21, 2025·19m - 119
Advent Week 2: Peace Theme: Generosity and Gratitude
Dec 7, 2025·14m - 120
Advent Week 1: Hope - Grounding our generosity in God‘s generosity
Nov 30, 2025·26m - 121
Isaiah 65:17–25, CEB with Pastor Stephanie
Nov 16, 2025·16m - 122
The Top 10 - Embodiment Sunday 11/09/2025
Nov 9, 2025·11m - 123
Luke 19: 1-10, CEB with Pastor Keeyon
Hidden gemPastor Keeyon preaches on the story of Zacchaeus from Luke 19, emphasizing Jesus' mission to seek and save the lost.
Nov 2, 2025·28m·1 clip - 124
Luke 18:1-8, CEB with Pastor Keeyon
Pastor Keeyon preaches on Luke 18:1-8, emphasizing the need to pray continuously and not be discouraged, using the parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge.
Oct 19, 2025·33m - 125
Lectio Divina Luke 17:11-19
Oct 12, 2025·21m - 126
Embodiment Sunday - Lectio Divina 10/12/2025
Oct 12, 2025·21m - 127
Luke 17:5-10 with Pastor Alice Murray
Oct 5, 2025·16m - 128
Lectio Divina (Good Neighbors Day)
Sep 28, 2025·15m - 129
The Parable of the Shrewd Manager with Pastor Michele Jones
Sep 21, 2025·15m - 130
Lectio Divina - Ephesians 6:1-10, MSG
Sep 14, 2025·18m - 131
Reconciliation, Neighborhood Development, & Worship with Anthony Betters Jr.
Anthony Betters Jr.
Sep 7, 2025·28m - 132
The Friendship Crisis in Christianity
Pastor Kian discusses the crisis of friendship in Christianity, using the biblical story of David and Jonathan to illustrate deep, covenantal relationships.
Aug 24, 2025·26m - 133
Immerse 2025 - Imagine
Aug 10, 2025·14m - 134
Five Years Later: A Guided Reflection on the Derecho
Aug 9, 2025·19m - 135
Baptism 2025
Jul 27, 2025·8m - 136
Immerse 2025 - Prophetic Presence
Jul 20, 2025·10m - 137
Immerse 2025 - Church-based
Jul 16, 2025·29m - 138
Immerse 2025 - Leadership Development
Jun 29, 2025·18m - 139
Embodiment Sunday (June 22, 2025)
Jun 22, 2025·12m - 140
Immerse 2025 - Listening to the Community
Jun 15, 2025·36m - 141
Pentecost Sunday, Lectio Divina
Jun 8, 2025·9m - 142
Stories Among Us (Kai & Jacob)
Jun 1, 2025·12m - 143
Stories Among Us - Amara Andrews
May 25, 2025·12m - 144
Stories Among Us - Gretchen Mundorf
May 18, 2025·14m - 145
Stories Among Us - Janessa Carr
May 11, 2025·19m - 146
Stories Among Us - Nick Lapointe
May 4, 2025·12m - 147
Easter 2025
Apr 20, 2025·20m - 148
Good Friday 2025
Apr 18, 2025·20m - 149
Maundy Thursday & Visio Divina
Apr 17, 2025·18m - 150
Palm Sunday 2025
Apr 13, 2025·13m