by Pat McCaughan | Nov 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sandy and Ned Bergert credit the diocesan-led Fresh Start program with helping the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Placentia get a fresh start between rectors. In fact, the husband-and-wife lay leaders liked it so much they signed up for an extra semester. “It was...
by Pat McCaughan | Nov 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Until recently, Nate Alday of Ventura County believed abolitionists were a thing of the past. Then he became one. “Like a lot of Americans, I thought slavery was abolished back at the end of the Civil War,” Alday told The Episcopal News recently. But a youth...
by Pat McCaughan | Jul 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Troy Elder was deflated but not defeated; the Supreme Court had deadlocked, 4 – 4, over an Obama Administration initiative that would have provided deportation relief and work permits for an estimated five million people without legal documents who are currently...
by Pat McCaughan | Jul 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
In the shadows of Los Angeles, often called the homeless capital of the United States, thousands of youth like Marlon, Josue, Cherrick, and David find shelter any given night beside freeways, in hidden spaces, feeling vulnerable, isolated, invisible. “I ran away at 15...
by Pat McCaughan | Jul 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Kindness bridges distances. Just ask the Rev. Joseph Oloimooja. The nonprofit Kindness Mission he founded in 2009 has helped breathe new life and hope into a remote Kenyan village more than 8,000 miles from the Southland. The village of 2,000 people, Eluanata, sits...
