Kevin & Natalie Talistu's Story

Brother and Sister share how their lives have changed by God.

David Bromberg's Story

It's hard to believe it's been almost a year and a half since I've joined the community here at PCC. Originally from the east coast, I moved out here after graduating from college because of a job offer- I work as a software developer for Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores. I didn't know anyone out here. I found PCC through a Google search for churches in the Bay Area, and after coming to Sunday Night once, I knew enough that I wanted to keep coming back.

My first experience with the Young Adult community was coming to Mercy Cafe (a summer bbq and hang out on PCC's lawn). I met Frankie Markovich (a PCC Young Adult), who right away started introducing me to people. I know it sounds cliche, but it's true- everyone was so welcoming. The next Wednesday I started coming to our small group gatherings, and the day after that I was hiking with another PCC Young Adult, Evans Leung, and seeing my first redwoods. People really made the effort to engage with me, and as I also made the effort, relationships grew.

Having been involved a lot with my college fellowship, the Navigators, I wanted to not only receive from the community, but also serve, and so I talked to PCC's worship pastor about joining the Sunday Night band. And having led small groups in college, (PCCYA Pastor) Tony challenged me to lead a care group that Fall. The guys that I met in that care group would become some of my closest friends here. And other guys I met in the Young Adult group would become my roommates. We started out not knowing each other very well, but as we trusted God and sought to serve each other, God used us in each others' lives and grew us closer together.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate." And so I would encourage everyone who wants to be involved in a deep, enriching, loving community, to stop looking for it and start making it. Rather than reaching for some ideal, and giving up when we don't find it, we should engage with the people God has already placed around us, seeking to love them and serve them in the ways we've been gifted. Community will emerge naturally. Now, I'm happy to announce I'm engaged to long time college friend, Leah Thomason, with plans to wed in the fall of 2010.