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Delegates to the upcoming Nov. 14 – 15 diocesan convention will be asked to ratify a $6 million budget for 2021, representing severe cuts to diocesan ministries and a 13% overall reduction from the previous year. Members of Diocesan Council, meeting virtually Oct. 29, approved the $5.99 million budget, a decrease of nearly one million […]
The Food Share ministry at All Saints Church in Riverside is so much more than just a place for “James” to receive free fresh vegetables, fruits and dairy products on Thursday mornings, no questions asked. For 49-year-old James, who is homeless, the church and its volunteers represent a lifeline, a place of welcome, comfort and […]
Diocesan Bishop John Harvey Taylor pressed Southland Episcopalians to vote and to “urge others to vote—especially those around us who might be reluctant, who might think they don’t count,” during an Oct. 29 live-streamed pre-election service of prayer, protest and song. Taylor invoked poet Walt Whitman’s classic poem “I Hear America Singing” as a call […]
Two ministries within the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles — the Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Service (IRIS) and St. Luke’s Church in Long Beach — will get a boost this year from United Thank Offering’s 2020 Covid-19-themed grants program. Meghan Taylor, IRIS executive director, said the agency, a ministry of the diocese and an affiliate […]
Since convention delegates and visitors can’t walk into a convention center hall this year to visit exhibits from ministries, services, institutions, spirituality and education providers and the wider church, convention coordinator Samantha Wylie is bringing the exhibits to them online. The Virtual Exhibit Hall, according to Wylie, will allow not only convention-goers, but the entire […]
St. John’s Cathedral invites the diocesan community to “A Service of Prayer for Our Nation” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, as the United States enters the final weekend before its 2020 general election on Nov. 3. Bishop John Harvey Taylor will offer an election-tide message at this virtual service hosted by the cathedral, […]
A new secure website, www.bishopsgala.org, is now live for registration and donations toward the Nov. 7 Bishop’s Gala featuring Presiding Bishop Michael Curry as keynoter. Emmy-winning film and television actor Bradley Whitford will introduce Bishop Curry. Whitford, a parishioner of All Saints Church in Pasadena, has performed in many TV series, including “The West Wing,” […]
With the Diocese of Los Angeles’s Nov. 14 – 15 virtual 125th annual meeting just a few weeks away, St. Paul’s Commons in Echo Park is beginning to look and feel a lot like convention. Typically, this would be the time convention coordinator Samantha Wylie would be packing registration and other materials into “huge gondola-like” […]
Delegates to the 125th annual meeting of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles will be asked to amend diocesan canons to name certain nontraditional faith communities as “mission centers” that will send lay delegates with seat, voice and vote to Diocesan Convention. The convention will be held via Zoom on Saturday, Nov. 14, with Convention […]
November 28, 1927 – October 1, 2020 James Alvin Sanders died on Oct. 1, 2020 at his home in Claremont, California, following a period of declining health, attended by his son, Robin, and daughter-in-law, Dawn Sanders. His wife, Dora Geil Cargille Sanders, predeceased him by four years. He leaves two adult grandsons, Robin, Jr. and […]
A general election of more than usual interest has prompted the Ecumenical and Interfaith Program Group of the Diocese of Los Angeles to issue a SoCal Interfaith Voting Guide, offering help for voters that reflects priorities of the church as established in diocesan convention resolutions of recent years. Because the program group also includes members […]
At St. John’s Episcopal Church in San Bernardino, “shelter in place” has taken on a whole new meaning as the parish has become a home for immigrants released on humanitarian parole from detention centers amid coronavirus outbreaks. More than 50 coronavirus cases have been reported at the Adelanto Detention Center, where George, 79, a Nigerian […]
