About usNosotros
We began as eleven people in a living room on Shaver Street. Most of them are still here, and so are their grandchildren.Empezamos once personas en una sala de la calle Shaver. Casi todos siguen aquí, y también sus nietos.
Our storyNuestra historia
1994
Hermano Ezequiel and Hermana Rosa Cantú open their home for Friday prayer.El hermano Ezequiel y la hermana Rosa Cantú abren su casa para orar los viernes.
1999
The church rents an empty feed store on Red Bluff and paints the walls cobalt blue.La iglesia renta una tienda de forraje vacía en Red Bluff y pinta las paredes de azul.
2008
The fellowship hall becomes a supply depot for three weeks and feeds 400 families.El salón social se vuelve centro de ayuda por tres semanas y alimenta a 400 familias.
2015
The young adults ask for a service in their own language. Thirty come the first Sunday.Los jóvenes adultos piden un culto en su idioma. Llegan treinta el primer domingo.
2026
We burn the mortgage papers in the parking lot after the Easter service.Quemamos los papeles de la hipoteca en el estacionamiento después del culto de Resurrección.
Pastors and leadersPastores y líderes
Call or text any of us. We answer our own phones.Llama o escribe a cualquiera. Contestamos nuestros propios teléfonos.
Senior PastorPastor principal
Rubén grew up in this church and worked eighteen years at the Shell refinery before he was called to pastor in 2012. He preaches at both services and still fixes the air conditioning himself.Rubén creció en esta iglesia y trabajó dieciocho años en la refinería antes de ser llamado al pastorado en 2012. Predica en los dos cultos y todavía arregla el aire acondicionado él mismo.
What we believeLo que creemos
We are a Pentecostal church in the Assemblies tradition. Here is how we would say it over coffee.Somos una iglesia pentecostal de tradición asambleísta. Así lo diríamos tomando un cafecito.
Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose again. Anyone who turns to him is forgiven and made new. That is where our name comes from.Jesucristo murió por nuestros pecados y resucitó. Todo el que se vuelve a él es perdonado y hecho nuevo. De ahí viene nuestro nombre.
2 Corintios 5:17
The same Spirit who came at Pentecost still fills believers, gives gifts and empowers ordinary people to serve.El mismo Espíritu que vino en Pentecostés sigue llenando a los creyentes, dando dones y capacitando a gente común para servir.
Hechos 2:38–39
We pray for the sick and we also send them to the doctor. We have seen God answer both ways.Oramos por los enfermos y también los mandamos al doctor. Hemos visto a Dios responder de las dos maneras.
Santiago 5:14–15
We read it, preach it and argue with it honestly, and we let it have the last word.La leemos, la predicamos y la estudiamos con honestidad, y le damos la última palabra.
2 Timoteo 3:16
English at 9:30, Spanish at 11:30, lunch at 1:30.Inglés a las 9:30, español a las 11:30, comida a la 1:30.
Design notes
Vida Nueva is a bilingual Pentecostal church where grandparents worship in Spanish and their grandchildren often pray in English. The site greets both at once, leads with testimonies instead of a mission statement, and puts prayer, not giving, in the header.
Gabarito in ExtraBold has the round, confident shapes of the hand-painted lettering on church vans and taquería windows along Red Bluff, without tipping into novelty. Onest sets the body at 18px: it is open and warm, its accents sit high and clear, and it stays readable on a phone with the brightness down in a dark sanctuary. Both faces carry ñ, ¿ and ¡ cleanly at every size.
The red is the color of Pentecost, the tongues of fire in Acts 2 and the altar cloth that goes up every May. The blue is the awning over the side door, the landmark everybody mentions when they tell a cousin how to find the church. Neutrals lean warm rose so the pages feel like the fellowship hall, and the dark theme sits on a deep wine instead of black.
A two-tier header keeps both service times, the address and the language switch on every page, because those are the three things people text each other. The bar below holds six pages and one action. The home page then runs in the order a newcomer asks: which service is in my language, is anyone like me here, what does it look like, and where is it.
The opening screen says the same welcome twice, side by side, each with its own congregation's service time. The Spanish is written as Spanish, in the voice Pastor Rubén uses from the pulpit, so it doesn't read like a translation of the English. A grandmother and her grandson can look at the same phone and both find their hour.
The header button is 'Ask for prayer' because that is the first thing most people who find a Pentecostal church online are looking for, often late at night. 'Come this Sunday' and 'Register your kids' follow, and giving sits on its own page instead of in the header.
Photos come from Spanish-speaking congregations at worship, at the altar on revival nights and around the food table: raised hands, open Bibles, tamales in foil pans. Crowd shots stay at rooms of a hundred or so, which matches a real Sunday here. The testimony wall has no photos at all on purpose, so the words carry it.
Every heading and button switches language together, and the page's lang attribute changes with it so screen readers pronounce Spanish correctly. Body text is 18px with contrast above 7:1, and the prayer form never requires a name or an email.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.63:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 17.45:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.79:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 6.44:1 | AA |
| Button text | Aa | 7.19:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 6.92:1 | AA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 15.63:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.1:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 7.19:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 4.63:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 15.96:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 14.66:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.96:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 8.45:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 8.51:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 9.51:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 16.77:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 8.34:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 8.51:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.36:1 | AA |
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