Sold-Out Gathering at the Pasadena Hilton Puts Women’s Healing at the Center

The church helping organize Saturday’s women’s breakfast bears the marks of the Eaton Fire.

Hillside Tabernacle City of Faith, an Altadena congregation founded in 1967 and located at 2561 N. Fair Oaks Ave., suffered damage in the January 2025 Eaton Fire, and its pastors, G. LaKeith and Jerice Kenebrew, lost their home.

Seventeen months later, the church is a co-host of an event built specifically for women navigating that loss and much more.

The inaugural Women’s Prayer Breakfast Experience, presented by Community Women Vital Voices and Hillside Tabernacle Church, takes place Saturday, June 6, from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Pasadena Hilton, 168 S. Los Robles Ave. The 400-seat event is sold out.

The theme is “Let Her Lead Wisdom & Kindness,” drawn from Proverbs 31:26, and the program is designed, according to organizers, to offer women affected by the Eaton Fire which destroyed 9,418 structures across Altadena and Pasadena a space rooted in faith, prayer, and purpose-driven leadership.

“This experience was created to pour into women spiritually, emotionally, and personally while reminding them of the power they hold to lead with grace, wisdom, and kindness,” Lena Louise Kennedy, President and CEO of Community Women Vital Voices, said in a statement released by the organization.

Kennedy, a Pasadena native who has led the nonprofit for more than two decades, said the sold-out response was itself a signal.

“The overwhelming response and sold-out attendance reflects the growing desire for safe spaces rooted in faith, healing, purpose, and empowerment,” Kennedy said.

Dr. Dwinita “Nita” Mosby Tyler, a Denver-based equity and leadership speaker, will deliver the keynote. Mosby Tyler is the founder and Chief Catalyst of The Equity Project, LLC, and has been recognized as a TEDx speaker; she was the first African American woman to hold senior leadership roles at both Children’s Hospital Colorado and the City and County of Denver. Jerice Kenebrew, co-pastor of Hillside Tabernacle, will serve as event moderator. Jewel Taylor-Diamond will lead prayer. The Dancing Queens of Dena will provide entertainment.

The program includes an Intercessory Prayer Wall, where attendees can submit prayer requests and declarations, and a Prayer Closet described by organizers as a private space for reflection, prayer, healing, and spiritual restoration.

Hillside Tabernacle has been a presence in Altadena since 1967 and has continued its community ministry through the recovery period. Co-Pastor Jerice Kenebrew said earlier this year that the church’s mission has remained unchanged.

“Our plan is to provide all that we can – support, prayer, love, resources,” she told ABC7 in February.

This is the first such event for Community Women Vital Voices, which in August 2025 organized the Eaton Fire Senior Summit “Rebuilding with Resilience” at the same Pasadena Hilton venue, drawing government officials including L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger and Pasadena Mayor Victor Gordo.

Kennedy has said she intends the Women’s Prayer Breakfast to become an annual event serving women across Pasadena, Altadena, and Los Angeles County.