Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena hosted the 2024 Black Education Expo on Feb. 24 in celebration of Black History Month and Black Children’s Book Week.
In 2012, God instructed the Rev. Albert Tate to plant a church in Monrovia. Although surprised by the command, he obediently followed and founded Fellowship Monrovia. Now six years later, Tate leads one of the largest congregations in San Gabriel Valley. However, size is not what makes Fellowship so distinctive, but rather it’s the composition of the membership and the breadth of the ministries. “We are a Gospel-centered, multiethnic, intergenerational church. We exist to make disciples,” said Tate, who is pastor to 3,000+ members who worship at the church’s two campuses located in Monrovia. As for Fellowship’s appeal to