Community members successful the Pacific Palisades country successful Los Angeles County returned connected Good Friday to the tract of a 103-year-old religion that burned down successful January during the Southern California wildfires.
And portion the Community United Methodist Church’s gathering is thing but rubble and ashes astatine the moment, Pastor John Shaver told Fox News Digital Saturday it volition stay a "community without walls" until it’s rebuilt.
"As galore stock acquainted past words worldwide, ‘Christ is Risen!,’ we cognize these words of anticipation are for the Pacific Palisades Community United Methodist religion family, the radical of Pacific Palisades, the Altadena assemblage and each who request the spot to support moving guardant worldwide," Shaver said. "This large acquisition of anticipation gives america the fortitude to rebuild, and, successful the meantime, we volition strive to beryllium a religion assemblage (even without walls) that is simply a halfway of anticipation and healing for our neighbors adjacent and far."
Shaver, who had led the religion for conscionable six months earlier it burned down, 3 years aft its centennial celebration, gathered with a fistful of assemblage members astatine the tract Friday earlier they embarked connected a transverse locomotion done the neighborhood.
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Pastor John Shaver carries a transverse during a transverse locomotion by the Community United Methodist Church of the Pacific Palisades Friday successful the Pacific Palisades country of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/William Liang)
They stopped astatine 9 locations successful the devastated neighborhood, speechmaking Bible verses astatine each halt to correspond a antithetic portion of Jesus Christ’s path.
"On this Easter Sunday, adjacent though we cognize determination are inactive important challenges to come, we springiness acknowledgment for the anticipation God gives america done the resurrection of Jesus Christ," Shaver told Fox News Digital.
He added that the Community United Methodist Church "wants to stock God’s emotion and anticipation done our words and work to everyone. We anticipation that by being the hands and feet of Christ, we tin physique bridges of unity with others passim the astonishing metropolis of Los Angeles."
The religion was built by the aforesaid radical who founded Pacific Palisades much than a period agone and, implicit the decades, it has borne witnesser to weddings, funerals, assemblage gatherings, sports competitions, vacation celebrations and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Members of the Community United Methodist Church perceive to a supplication by Pastor John Shaver during a transverse walk. (AP Photo/William Liang)
Inspired by the Chautauqua societal question of the 1920s, the founders started a "peace movement," gathering the religion and offering arts, euphony and taste programs to residents, Shaver told The Associated Press.
The congregation has continued services since the occurrence astatine different sites, but it was its archetypal clip backmost to the tract Friday.
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Shaver, on with astir of his congregation, mislaid his location successful the Palisades Fire.

Carli Wright plays euphony for a religion supplication during a transverse locomotion by the Community United Methodist Church of the Pacific Palisades Friday. (AP Photo/William Liang)
The Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire, which was further inland adjacent Pasadena, destroyed tens of thousands of homes and businesses and killed 29 people, including a congregant of Shaver’s church.
Shaver remembered 85-year-old Annette Rossilli during the transverse locomotion and stopped successful beforehand of the rubble wherever his ain location erstwhile stood. His household moved into the location past July.
"It’s besides a reminder however overmuch of what we have, we instrumentality for granted," Shaver told the AP.
And portion the religion burned down, the assemblage was capable to prevention important parts of it similar chromatic tiles, a metallic transverse that stood atop its operation and different chromatic cross.
Shaver said the religion volition effort to find ways to incorporated those items erstwhile the caller religion is built.

Shaver said the transverse locomotion was besides a reminder of "how overmuch of what we have, we instrumentality for granted." (AP Photo/William Liang)
Thomas Knoll, a nonmigratory who didn’t be the religion and isn’t religious, told the AP helium attended the lawsuit due to the fact that it felt "like benignant of a ceremonial for Pacific Palisades."
Knoll besides mislaid his home.
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"The full communicative of crucifixion and resurrection is due here," helium said. "This municipality volition beryllium rebuilt, but it’s going to instrumentality a agelong time."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.