Our Testimony

How God Brought Us Here

Since our church was planted in 2012, our offices and Sunday worship spaces have been in separate locations, and we have not had a true sense of “home.” At the same time, God has placed his heart of hospitality deep within us, so much so that it is the central theme of our mission statement. So, over the last two years we’ve been seeking the Lord for a 24/7 space. In Fall 2025, we initiated a 70-day prayer campaign. Everyone, including children, joined in asking God for breakthrough in different areas of our lives, and corporately asking for breakthrough towards a 24/7 space. And God responded powerfully…

Prayer Commitment blocks and our “Prayer Thermometer” of prayer pebbles from our 70-day Breakthrough Prayer Campaign

Prophetic words and images from our 24 hour prayer relay at the end of our 70 day Breakthrough Prayer Campaign

Three days after our prayer campaign ended, God led us into a providential meeting with Redeemer’s leadership. Immediately, there was a sense of kinship and unity as we got to know each other’s stories and saw how many of the words and images God had given our church during our prayer campaign overlapped with Redeemer’s story. For example, multiple people had drawn or written the idea of God preserving an old building or reviving something that was dying – and these were the exact words that the Redeemer leadership used to describe their recent history.

The story of Redeemer church and their school is remarkable. They have been in the Palms / West LA community since the 1940s. In the past decade they have endured many hardships, but God has raised up a small group of leaders who have committed to preserve their spiritual legacy. When they met us, they immediately sensed that this was the work of God. They have chosen to share their space with us for below market value, far less than they would have gotten in rental income from other groups wanting to use their space. They are giving us priority in scheduling and are inviting us to take the lead in renovating the sanctuary.

So after more than a decade of renting from Adat Shalom synagogue, we are moving across the street into our new church home, entering a beautiful partnership with Redeemer Church and Redeemer Christian Academy. One of our members, Billy Ferdinand, will be leading the renovation project. And we believe that God has brought us to this new season for a reason. 

What’s Ahead

God is weaving our stories together to accomplish his purposes in Palms and West LA. Our church network (Antioch)’s word for this year, established prior to everything that happened with Redeemer, is “strengthen the family to multiply.” We believe that through this 24/7 space God is preparing Epicentre West LA to multiply His blessing (Genesis 12:3, Isaiah 54:2-3) to our neighborhood. 

God has been calling us to pray for revival – a season of breakthroughs in word, deed, and power, that ushers in a new normal of kingdom experience and fruitfulness. And he has clarified that we are to be a house of hospitality and healing – hospitality has always been in our DNA, and over the last two years he has called us to the ministry of healing. And as we’ve gotten to know Redeemer’s, we see that these words have been part of their story too. Thus, the Revive Campaign seeks to restore both the physical house and the spiritual legacy of the house. 

EWLA Lead Pastors Quen and Kathryn with long-time member Daniel Msubi (center)

Our Discernment Process

Pastor Chris, our interim lead pastor at the time, first planted the idea of a 24/7 space in 2022. We were all excited by the thought, especially as it would relieve the pressures of our growing children’s ministry, not having to set up each Sunday, and having a space to more fully live out our value of hospitality. We had no idea what it would look like to pursue a 24/7 space since we definitely didn't have the means for it, but we wanted to seek God and his heart for us in this. So in September 2023, we formed a prayer team that met monthly to discern whether or not God was leading us to pursue this. We didn't sense any red lights, and in the summer of 2024, we contacted over 100 churches in the area to put out feelers. Nothing came of it, but God continued to encourage us. 

In November 2024, as our prophetic prayer team was waiting on the Lord in their biweekly meeting, Angae Kim out of the blue said, “Has there ever been thought about a permanent church building?” She had no idea a different prayer team had already been praying or that a search team had been contacting churches.  

In early 2025, Kathryn felt God pressing us into revival through prayer, and we had the thought that if we weren't stewarding the space that we already have '24/7' (the office in Culver City), why would he entrust us with a building? So we made the small office room a prayer room, and began sowing prayers there. Meanwhile, we found out that the Culver City office was going to be demolished and repurposed at the end of 2026, and that our meeting space at the synagogue where we’ve been renting was to undergo a major renovation in the spring of 2026. 

Our prayer culture grew over the course of the year. In addition to the office prayer room, we started monthly Boiler Room worship and prayer nights with increasing attendance. In September 2025 we launched a 70-day Breakthrough Prayer Campaign, and that’s when the miraculous happened. 

Prophetic Words and Images

From September to November 2025, we launched a 10-week 'Breakthrough Prayer Campaign' (instead of a 'giving campaign') for the building and for other breakthroughs, personally and in the world. The Prayer Campaign culminated with a 24 hour prayer relay in our office prayer room. During this time, the Lord deposited many prophetic words and images that came to pass, assuring us that Redeemer was where he wanted us. 

REMEEDER

The word “Redeemer” spelled backwards, as one would view it in a mirror looking back at the sovereign plan of God (Genesis 50:20)

Stained Glass

Images of stained glass - that God is preserving an old building for us. This was the exact word that Gracia and Daniel used to describe what they felt was their calling at Redeemer. 

Dead Tree Coming Back to Life

The first time we met Gracia, she told us, “I cannot let the things of God die.” 

Jeanna's Block

Jeanna prayed in faith that God would provide a 24/7 space between November 21 and December 15. That was the exact timeframe when we established a relationship with Redeemer. On 12/2, we met with Redeemer leadership for the first time. By 12/7, we had shared with our staff and elders how God was moving. By 12/14, we shared with our church-wide leadership team that God was on the move and we were celebrating in worship that '“we sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered.”

Isaiah 54:2

On the day we finalized the contract with Redeemer, we noticed a Bible verse posted on the wall of the school office. At the beginning of the school year, Gracia had gotten this verse from the Lord and taught the students about it. She put it up on the wall. Then over the last few months, she felt like God kept telling her, “Don’t take it down.” What verse is it? Isaiah 54:2, the anchor verse for the Antioch movement! 

1. “REMEEDER” - The word “Redeemer” spelled backwards, as one would view it in a mirror looking back at the sovereign plan of God (Genesis 50:20)

2. Images of stained glass - that God is “preserving an old building for us”. This word of “preserving” was exactly what Gracia and Daniel used to describe what they felt was their calling at Redeemer. 

3. Dead tree coming back to life - the first time we met Gracia, she told us, “I cannot let the things of God die.” 

4. *Jeanna’s block - Jeanna prayed in faith that God would provide a 24/7 space between November 21 and December 15. That was the exact timeframe where we established a relationship with Redeemer. On 12/2, we met with Redeemer leadership for the first time. By 12/7, we shared with our staff and elders how God is moving. By 12/14, we had shared with our whole church-wide leadership team that God was on the move, and we were celebrating in worship that “we sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered.” 

5. On the day we finalized the contract with Redeemer, we noticed a Bible verse posted on the wall of the school office. At the beginning of the school year, Gracia had gotten this verse from the Lord and taught the students about it. She put it up on the wall. Then over the last few months, she felt like God kept telling her, “Don’t take it down.” What verse is it? Isaiah 54:2, the anchor verse for the Antioch movement! 

6. Back in 2024 when we first started asking God about a 24/7 space, we sensed that the person who would lead us to the space was wearing a brown coat. The day Quen met Daniel, Ms Bahati was wearing a brown coat.