REMINDER – JOIN US TONIGHT at 6pm Pacific!  We’re very excited to invite you to a beautiful evening of uplifting, healing music with Matthew Hammond and Laura Lapointe — along with family and friends — on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM Pacific via Zoom.

Matthew (of Love Only Grows Music Ministry) and Laura will share original songs and cherished Christmas carols to nourish the spirit and bring peace, hope, and connection. With Matthew’s heartfelt voice and gentle guitar and Laura’s deep love for worship, this promises to be a truly special evening of soulful music and abundant joy.

We’d be honored to have you, your church, and your friends with us — whether you join alone or with loved ones. Let this music gathering uplift you, encourage you, and remind us all of the healing power of community and spiritual song.
 Click below to join us live on Zoom:
Join Zoom – Thursday 12/4 at 6:00 PM (PST)

Special Guest Alert! Mathew Hammond of Love Only Grows Music Ministry along with Laura Lapointe, his family and friends will be performing live at our next Embraced:Fully Zoom Meeting, December 4th at 6PM (Pacific Time). You will definitely want to attend. For what better way could there to celebrate the joy and spirit of the Christ spirit than with the healing and transformative music and abundant goodwill that emanates from Matthew’s deeply effecting voice and sweet guitar work? He, along with his wife Liz, family and friends look forward to sharing some of their original songs and Christmas carols with you, your church and friends. This promises to be a truly special evening of uplifting spiritual music that brings healing and transformation…. and oh did we mention joy?! There will be plenty of that.

Laura Lapointe is a Christian Science practitioner with a background in education and the arts. Prior to entering the full-time practice, Laura worked in a prison in Boston as a literacy teacher and with a re-entry program. Laura loves to worship through song, particularly in gospel choirs over many years, and learns much through dialogue with fellow Christians and those of other faiths. She believes in being honest about her struggles as a way of encouraging and showing solidarity with everyone who is on this journey of striving to love God and our neighbors more each day.Links:

• Love Only Grows Music Ministry (https://loveonlygrows.org/)
• Laura Lapointe, CS (https://healing.lauralapointe.com/)

Zoom Meeting Details

 Thursday, December 4, 2025 – 6:00 PM Pacific
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 Meeting ID: 811 8885 8472
 Passcode: 047748

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We look forward to seeing you on the call!

With gratitude,

David Fowler, Co-founder, Embraced:Fully
 (760) 822-8123 |  david@embracedfully.org

Gabriel Serafini, Co-founder, Embraced:Fully
 (415) 640-5984 |  gabriel@embracedfully.org

“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
— Matthew 25:40

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