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September 25, 2024

Students come for food, stay for fellowship at UC Irvine ‘Community Table’

[The Episcopal News] Community Table at UC Irvine offers food, fellowship, fun, along with opportunities to develop lasting bonds, learn important skills, and figure out the future. For fourth-year student leader Kimberley Aguilar, it has become a family affair. “My older brother started with it when Community Table began,” she told The Episcopal News recently. […]

September 25, 2024

Post-pandemic, Laundry Love resumes monthly service in Echo Park

[The Episcopal News] Laundry Love Echo Park, a monthly program that offers those in need an opportunity to do laundry free of charge, had its official re-launch on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at Luxe Laundries on Alvarado Street. Laundry Love is a national organization, and the Echo Park chapter began in 2016. Its last program before […]

September 25, 2024

Refugees from many countries mingle at IRIS’s ‘Welcome Week’

Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Services (IRIS), a ministry of the diocese focused on resettlement, opened its doors Sept. 19 to welcome about 60 guests for a “Welcome Week” event, inspired by June’s World Refugee Day Celebration and organized by Hilda Sarkisians, a manager at IRIS and chair of Refugee Forum of Los Angeles (RFLA). Due […]

September 25, 2024

Episcopalians join other volunteers in Echo Park for World Cleanup Day

[The Episcopal News] About 90 volunteers, including members of St. Athanasius Episcopal Church, gathered on Saturday, Sept. 21 at El Centro Del Pueblo in Echo Park (Los Angeles) for the neighborhood’s World Cleanup Day event. Volunteers were divided into groups, provided with gloves, trash bags, shovels, and rakes, and assigned an area to clean. The […]

September 18, 2024

Vet your sources, pop your news bubble, support good local journalism, panelists tell participants in first ‘Losing Truth’ online forum

[The Episcopal News] Bishop John Harvey Taylor opened “Losing Truth: The Critical Cost to Our Lives and Future,” the Sept. 15 online forum, with his confession of how easily he, even as a former journalist and sophisticated news reader, recently was misled by misinformation. “Remember last week when Tom Brady debuted as a commentator on […]

September 18, 2024

At September meeting, Diocesan Council hears of search process for bishop coadjutor, new hires and mentoring projects projected for 2025

[The Episcopal News] The search for a bishop coadjutor, mentoring opportunities for newly ordained clergy, financial assistance for Camp Stevens and hiring both a youth and young adult missioner and a housing and enterprise missioner are among next year’s ambitious initiatives, Treasurer Canon Andy Tomat told Diocesan Council on Sept. 12 during a preview of […]

September 18, 2024

Bishop Taylor to lead delegation to Diocese of Taiwan anniversary celebration

[The Episcopal News] Bishop John Harvey Taylor will lead a Los Angeles delegation to join the 70th anniversary celebration of the Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan, with whom a companion relationship was established at the 128th annual diocesan convention in November 2023. The trip, which will begin Sept. 21 and conclude Oct. 1, marks the beginning […]

September 18, 2024

New grant helps Seeds of Hope expand services with rent assistance, additional food

[The Episcopal News] Seeds of Hope, the food justice ministry of the Diocese of Los Angeles, recently received a $25,000 grant from United Way that will allow it to expand its services, offering clients rent assistance and additional food support at its produce distribution events. With the new funding, Seeds of Hope will be able […]

September 11, 2024

Episcopalians cope with fire threat, offer comfort and assistance to those fleeing flames

[The Episcopal News – September 11, 2024] St. John’s church and school community swiftly mobilized as the Airport Fire escalated Sept. 10 in Rancho Santa Margarita in Orange County, offering aid and housing evacuees. For Sheryll Grogan, acting head of school, the safety of school administration, faculty and staff was uppermost in her decision to […]

September 11, 2024

RIP: Nancy Houston Guthrie

[The Episcopal News] A Sept. 14 11 a.m. memorial service at Trinity Church, Orange, has been set for the late Nancy Houston Guthrie, a lay leader St. Stephen’s in Beaumont and and longtime parish administrator in Orange County congregations, who died Feb. 7 at age 89. Survivors include her daughter, Heidi Fernandez, stepsons Tom and […]

September 4, 2024

Call to the 2024 Diocesan Convention

[The Episcopal News] Join us for the 129th Annual Meeting of Convention of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Los Angeles, themed “Inside Out Church: Episcopal Identity in our Neighborhoods,” on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 8 and 9. Plans are underway for a day-and-a-half in-person Convention at the Riverside Convention Center at 3637 5th […]