[ONTARIO, California] Thanks to the new electronic balloting system being used at Diocesan Convention, now in its second day, quick consecutive votes yielded final election results for the remaining offices to be filled. Commission on Ministry (clergy) The Rev. Stefanie Wilson-Brown (third ballot) Commission on Ministry (lay) Parker Garrett (second ballot) Standing Committee (clergy) The […]
Bishop John Harvey Taylor called upon Southland Episcopalians to “come home” to renewed unity, commitment, connection and caring, during a Nov. 30 address to delegates on the opening day of the 123rd annual meeting of the Diocese of Los Angeles at the Ontario Convention Center. “Come home … to where our sibling is never the […]
At the 129th meeting of Diocesan Convention, now under way at the Ontario Convention Center, the first ballot — carried out this year for the first time by electronic voting — is completed. Elected by acclamation (running unopposed): Director, Canterbury Irvine (Episcopal chaplaincy at the University of California, Irvine) Susan Brown Director, Canterbury USC (Episcopal […]
Following the long-established tradition, the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of Los Angeles will award its 2019 Medical Ministry Grants on or around February 10, 2019. The grant deadline of December 10, 2018 allows for time for the grant committee to make site visits and make their recommendations to the ECW board. The ECW […]
The Diocese of Los Angeles will hold its annual Martin Luther King Jr., Day celebration at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 20 at All Saints Church, Pasadena, featuring a keynote address by Devon Carbado, associate vice chancellor at UCLA and a professor at the university’s school of law. His expertise includes constitutional criminal procedure, constitutional […]
Nearly 100 people attended the 111th anniversary celebration of St Philip the Evangelist Church at 2800 Stanford Avenue in Los Angeles on Nov. 25. A service was conducted in both English and Spanish for the parishioners coming from the local neighborhood of the church, as well as surrounding cities and even cities from as far […]
[Episcopal News Service – Los Angeles] California Episcopalians — still reeling from the deadliest wildfires in the state’s history — say they are gathering strength and resilience through community connections and an outpouring of love and concern from across the Episcopal Church. The Rev. Ann Sullivan’s northern California home was destroyed in the Camp Fire, […]
Homecoming was the theme and comfort food was on the menu Nov. 3 at the second annual Bishop’s Dinner at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Los Angeles. Some 230 Southland Episcopalians and friends dined on fried chicken, meatloaf, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and banana bread made with ‘Seeds of Hope’ (http://www.seedsofhope.www.ladiocese.org) bananas, while celebrating […]
Members of the media team from the Episcopal Church Center in New York will film an instructed Spanish-language Eucharist – dubbed “How2charist” — at Church of the Epiphany, Los Angeles, on Saturday, Nov. -17. They need at least 100 – 150 “extras” to be the congregation for the filming, and invite members of the diocesan […]
Nominations are open for officers to be elected at Diocesan Convention Nov. 30 – Dec. 1, and the bishops and canon to the ordinary invite church members to consider standing for one of the available offices. “Governance in The Episcopal Church is all about collegiality, collaboration, and community discernment,” Bishop John Harvey Taylor said. “You […]
