All La Mesa Blog Posts Tagged 'Mesa' (142)

It’s almost been a full year since the Pandemic first shut things down in La Mesa.  We’ve had to resort to online connections and zoom meetings to get by.  While tech has been a lifeline, it’s also led us to more Facebook fights and Twitter wars than we likely could have imagined.…

La Mesa may host a wild Oktoberfest but it is gaining a reputation for its colorful weekly Farmers Market where life slows down and the community comes alive. Every Friday afternoon, kids come to search for Rodney Rooster (a stuffed rooster, that hides in a different vendor booth each week).  If they spot him, they get a small prize.  Kids also get to be…

Let There be Light

Christmas Eve

Candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols

 The Table:  United Church of Christ of La Mesa

December 24, 2019   

7:00 PM 

Come…

Worship with us…

Rejoice with us…

Await the coming Babe of Bethlehem with us.

 The people of The Table invite you to share the warmth and welcome of our church family as we celebrate the wonder of the Christmas season in song and…

JAZZ at The Table

Jazz…Classic, Modern, Swinging, infused with an indie-pop vibe

Country

Pop

Blues

Retro-funk

Ed Kornhauser plays it all, excels at it all.

Pianist, keyboardist, Ed is one of the busiest artists on the San Diego music scene.    From Normal Heights’ go-to neighborhood…

Pacific Coast Chorale

Presents

A Valerie Victor Series Concert

A Choral Bouquet…

Having Healthy, If Difficult, Conversations

Sunday, August 18, 11:30am-1:00pm

The Table:  United Church of Christ of La Mesa

5940 Kelton Avenue, La Mesa, CA 91942

619-464-1519 - www.table.com

Now  more than ever, we need to talk to each other---even to those who adamantly disagree with us.  But how do we…

Six gifted San Diego area high school musicians, appearing in concert, will vie for scholarship honors in a new program to be featured annually as part of La Mesa’s popular Valerie Victor* Concert Series.  The featured finalists are Derek Savage, West Hills High – Guitar; Lydia Schmidt, Carlsbad High – Soprano; Mikel Ibaibarriaga, St. Augustine High – Baritone; Jacob Francisco, Montgomery High – Baritone Saxophone; Andrew Hendrix, Steel Canyon High – Alto Saxophone and Kartik Sundaram,…

Austria…Australia…Ireland…Iceland…

Carnegie Hall…Lincoln Center…the Sydney Opera House

“Waternight”…“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho”… “N’Sync Medley”…

From Borrego’s Clark Dry Lake, where they filmed their first video – the haunting “You Ruined Me” – to singing the mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, the young singers of Chamber Bravura have brought a cappella magic to audiences around the world.

And now these middle and senior high students from throughout the San…

Concert Features Songs Of Civil War

LA MESA -- From the rousing “Battle Hymn of the Republic” to African-American spirituals, the folk songs of Stephen Foster and the heartfelt hope of  “When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again,” the music of the Civil War era  reflected the lives, faith, dreams…

From Beauty and the Beast’s hauntingly melancholic “If I Can’t Love Her” to the impassioned spirituality of Vaughn-Williams “Five Mystical Songs,” noted baritone Bill Marshall “sings it all!”  Think the exuberant “They Call the Wind Maria” from Paint Your Wagon and Theodore Roethke’s disturbing tale, “My Papa’s Waltz.”

All these – and more, much more, will be showcased when Marshall, accompanied by Jim Tompkins-MacLaine,  appears as featured artist in program eight…

Our Advent theme this year is the first thing God speaks of, in the first lines of the book of Genesis.

God’s first utterance—“Let there be light”

God’s first utterance, and then God sees that it is good.

Over and over, God sings to a new creation: good, good, very good.

We were formed in a primordial goodness.

But our world does not always feel that way, does it?

Our world can feel broken, twisted, and bleak sometimes.

And Advent doesn’t deny that…

Awaiting the Messiah:  Advent Worship Services

10:00am, Sundays, December 2, 9, 16, 23

Evensong Blue Christmas 

6:00pm, Wednesday, December 12 

Christmas tough this year?  Clouded by loss and pain?  Are you wondering how you’ll make it through?

Christmas merriment often amplifies the sorrow and isolation many people feel this time of year. Sometimes the pressure to…

It's A Hayride!

LA MESA -- Picture it – a horse-pulled wagon filled with carolers young and old making its way through suburban streets as the neighbors call out Christmas greetings.  It’s the annual Hayride and Chili Dog Dinner at The Table: United Church of Christ of La Mesa, 5940 Kelton Avenue, La Mesa 91942.

 You’re invited to join us, to hop on and start the holiday season in style!  Feast…

 DATE CHANGE - Presenting 'Martha At The Table'

LA MESA -- From the wacky world of Gilbert and Sullivan and Nickelodeon’s “Aaah!!! Real Monsters” to Verdi’s Rigoletto and Handel’s Messiah, mezzo soprano Martha Jane Weaver has “sung it all.”  A long-time guest-artist with Lyric Opera San Diego, she has performed with such other noted companies as Sacramento Opera, Philharmonia…

The Valerie Victor Concert Series

Is Proud to Present

The Odeum Guitar Duo

Live at The Table

“The classical guitar is a miniature orchestra within itself.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

 Experience the promise inherent in Beethoven’s words, the exciting range and entrancing magic…

From Moon River to Skyfall,

 Buttons and Bows to A House is Not a Home: 

Celebrating the Music of the Movies

“Somewhere my love” brings instant images of Mother Russia; “Raindrops keep falling on my head,” of the free-wheeling…

 Welcome To The Table, Kelly Ryan

“All ages sharing their gifts to make something beautiful...

“Music that speaks to the truth of our human experience or our life together with God...

“Service as worship…”

These are the words, the visions, the hopes of the Rev. Kelly Ryan, who will assume the pulpit of The Table:  United Church of Christ of La…

Music, Music, Music!

An Afternoon with Rodney Girvin

 LA MESA -- Renowned San Diego pianist Rodney Girvin will appear in concert at The Table:  United Church of Christ of La Mesa (UCCLM) at 1:00 p.m. on July 29, 2018.   Girvin is the first artist to be featured in the church’s new Valerie Victor Concert Series, named in honor of its late…

10th Annual Taste of La Mesa

LA MESA -- The La Mesa Chamber of Commerce will present its 10th Annual Taste of La Mesa from 5 to 8 p.m., Monday, June 11, at the La Mesa Community Center, 4975 Memorial Dr., La Mesa. The event, which is open to the public,…