OFFICE FOR CREATIVE CONNECTIONS: MAKE GLAD THE CITY

Lorna Touryan Miller 626.583.2731
lmiller@allsaints-pas.org
Catherine Swanson 626.583.2750
cswanson@allsaints-pas.org

Office for Creative Connections (OCC) is a community outreach ministry, established in 1984 by the Vestry of All Saints Church as a gift to the City of Pasadena.  Its role is to serve as a facilitator identifying needs, assets and opportunities, assessing barriers and bringing people together to work on creative solutions, thinking for the whole city.  Using the OCC Method of listening, discerning, reporting and connecting, Creative Connections has incubated several local organizations including Young & Healthy, Day One, and CORAL (see CORAL webpage). Creative Connections current focus is City Conversations, a diverse group of community leaders addressing structural racism, All Saints / Muir High School Mentoring project, and Transformational Journeys Ministry. OCC also maintains an informational website-schoolsout.org- on out of school programs in the Pasadena area.
Creative Connections also administers New Vision Partners, a non-profit organization envisioned by Rector Ed Bacon and created by All Saints Church (see “http://www.newvisionpartners.org/”)

TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEYS MINISTRY.
Transformational Journeys Ministry plans local and global journeys that challenge participants to go outside of their comfort zone to encounter people of different cultures who live in challenging circumstances.  Locations include Armenia, Mexico, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, areas in Los Angeles, and other cities in the US.

OCC HISTORY
OCC METHODOLOGY
OCC PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS
NEW VISION PARTNERS