Claim. The Hub (Los Angeles, founded summer 2008 by Jatoma and Camia Gavin out of Sheri Rueter’s “Witnessing Summits”) is BR’s flagship UC populist pilot — a young-adult community outreach center whose lead pastor Jatoma Gavin distilled its success principle as “trust and giving creative space”.
Elaboration. Per tuna-melt-not-salad-bar: the Hub piloted “fresh and creative ideas from the Witnessing Summits to effectively outreach to American young adults.” Camia Gavin describes it as “a community outreach center where young adults can share their faith” that “has given hundreds of guests and hundreds of young adult Unificationists a place to call home.”
The programmatic range was deliberately heterogeneous — TrueQuest outdoor adventures, monthly concert series, artist showcase nights, The REAL Relationship Seminar (DP-based), The Lasting Imprint retreat, Project Connect worship service, financial IQ workshops. Per populist-church, a high program-experimentation rate is expected because “as would be predicted from the record of all populist efforts, numerous programs were floated.”
Jatoma’s “trust and giving creative space” maps the same flat-organization principle as Mt. Oak (mt-oak-healthy-church-four-principles) — leadership’s job is to align internally and release operationally, not to control program design.
See also. populist-church, mt-oak-healthy-church-four-principles