Safe Harbor Orange County

Summer is here ☀️

And with a new season comes new opportunities for joy, connection, and fun.

Maybe your summer wish list includes attending a SHOC Coffee House or joining SHOC Run Club. Maybe it’s a beach day (yes, some SHOC folks are planning one—and you’re invited!). Or maybe it’s finding community and hanging out poolside after service this summer at Colin & Lela’s.

Whatever you’re looking for this season, there’s a place for you here.

Send us a DM, follow along on social media, or check out our website calendar to see what’s coming up. We’d love to spend the summer with you.

What Is an LGBTQ+ Affirming Church?

In honor of Pride Month, we wanted to provide some clarity about what it means for a church to be LGBTQ+ affirming.
Like the term deconstruction, the word affirming can mean different things to different people. However, we believe it is important for churches to be clear about what they mean when they use this language. Clarity helps people make informed decisions about where they worship and belong, and it helps prevent unnecessary harm.

This week, we continue our series A Faith That Resists Empire.

In Rejecting Sameness, Embracing Wholeness, we’ll explore what happens when belonging is built on conformity—and what becomes possible when we make space for difference instead.

For generations, we’ve been taught that acceptance comes through fitting in. But what if God’s vision for community isn’t uniformity, but connection?

Drawing from the stories of Babel and Pentecost, we’ll reflect on how curiosity can replace fear, how love creates space for people to become fully themselves, and how diverse voices, identities, and experiences help us imagine a more beautiful way of being together.

What if belonging doesn’t require becoming someone else?

Join us Sunday as we explore what it means to embrace wholeness.

📍 Guin Foss Elementary
🕰 10:30am

There is space for you here 🌊

To kick off Pride Month, we’re launching our new Haven LGBTQ+ Small Group Series: Healthy Q***r Relationships.

This series was created collaboratively by a group of Haven leaders from diverse backgrounds and experiences within the q***r community. Together, we wanted to build something honest, inclusive, and deeply meaningful.
Many of us in the LGBTQ+ community were never given healthy relationship models to follow. For some, we didn’t even know our q***rness was an option for much of our lives. Because of that, many of us have had to navigate relationships without the guidance, representation, or affirmation we deserved.

Through the power of community, collaborative leadership, and trusted resources, we’ve created a series we are truly proud of.
We also recognize the incredible diversity within q***r relationships and identities. Many of us have experienced the effects of compulsive heterosexuality (“comphet”)—the assumption that heterosexuality is the default orientation, reinforced both consciously and subconsciously throughout society. Others have felt pressure to pursue romantic or sexual relationships even when they are ace, single, disabled, or simply living differently than cultural expectations demand.

Our community reflects a wide range of relationship experiences and models: monogamous, polyamorous, dating, single, engaged, married, and everything in between. We believe all of us can benefit from conversations about healthier q***r relationships—without placing marriage on a pedestal as the ultimate or holiest way to live in relationship.

After all, Jesus—the model we follow at SHOC—was single. His life centered community, connection, and chosen family. What an irony that many Christians have treated marriage as the highest spiritual ideal when the holiest person in our faith tradition was never married at all.

Join us Wednesday nights beginning this Wednesday:
Dinner at 6:30 PM
Discussion at 7:00 PM

Happy Pride Month, SHOC!

This week, we continue our series A Faith That Resists Empire with a communal conversation about bodies, burnout, rest, and resistance.

In our Sunday’s sermon, Bodies Are Not Machines: Rejecting Hustle, Embracing Slowness, we’ll explore how empire has long taught us to treat bodies as objects to control, exploit, commodify, and optimize — from colonized bodies forced into labor and stripped of dignity, to modern systems that measure human worth through productivity, performance, consumption, and even curated leisure.

Rather than a traditional sermon alone, this gathering will center a live conversation with Ryan Chin and Jordyn Dahlke as we reflect together on hustle culture, spiritual formation, identity, embodiment, rest, and what it means to reclaim our humanity in a world obsessed with achievement and optimization.

Together, we’ll reflect on how empire disconnects us from our bodies, one another, and the earth through systems of colonization, capitalism, performance, and commodification — and how tuning into earth’s rhythms, slowness, embodiment, and Beloved Community can help us reclaim our shared humanity and interconnectedness while offering a more grounded, compassionate path for the spiritual life.

📍 Guin Foss Elementary

🕰 Sunday at 10:30 AM

Let’s just say we had a great time at the LB Pride 5k Race 🌈 yesterday ✨

This week, we continue our series A Faith That Resists Empire by exploring the paradoxes we carry in faith, community, and ourselves.

Together, we will explore how Jesus models a faith that does not escape suffering or paradox, but enters fully into it with compassion, community, and resistance.

At the heart of this sermon is the invitation to stay watchful:
to notice the sacred in those often overlooked,
to confront our own contradictions with honesty,
and to discover truth not through certainty, but through presence within the paradox.

📍 Guin Foss Elementary
🕥 Sunday at 10:30 AM

church isn’t a building.
it’s people.
community.
chosen family.

sometimes it looks like a hallway full of shoes 🤍

grateful for every person who shows up, shares space, and helps make haven what it is 🌈

Need a way to spend time with your mom on Mother’s Day? 🤍

Want to treat her to coffee and pastries without spending any money?

Join us for SHOC Sunday at Coffee House at Blue Hummingbird in Irvine ☕️

We’ll be serving:
✨ a special Mother’s Day drink (along with all our other drinks)
✨ pastries
✨ a station for kids and adults to decorate Mother’s Day cards
✨ flowers + ribbon to create a mini bouquet for mom 💐

There will also be plenty of space to sit, relax, and spend time together.

Friendly reminder:
last call for drinks is 11:50am
our coffee bar closes at 12pm
but you’re welcome to stay and hang out until 12:30 ☺️

We’d love to celebrate with you 🌊