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[The Episcopal News] Deliberate misinformation and lies “continue to put at risk the lives of school children, hospital patients and workers and our Haitian and Haitian American neighbors in Springfield, Ohio,” Bishop John Harvey Taylor said in a September 22 video welcome to participants of a second online session of “Losing Truth: The Critical Cost […]
[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. […]
[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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
[The Episcopal News] For the Rev. Josh Paget, an associate rector at St. Cross Church in Hermosa Beach in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, hosting a film festival in Detroit seemed natural, given the kindred spirits of the city and Paget’s Better Cities Film Festival. “Detroit is known for its revitalization efforts and has […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
