Commission on Gospel Justice and Community Care

Commission Chair

Sister Patricia Sarah Terry | Contact: email

Commission Participants

In addition to Bishop John Harvey Taylor and Sister Patricia Sarah Terry, commission participants include:

• The Rev. Jamie Barnett, priest-in-charge at Epiphany, Oak Park;
• The Rev. Alene Campbell-Langdell, assisting priest at All Saints’/Todos Los Santos Church, Oxnard, and social worker;
• The Rev. Thomas Carey, retired;
• Ms. Virginia Classick, lay leader, All Saints, Pasadena
• The Very Rev. Bill Dunn, vicar of St. Stephen’s, Beaumont, and dean of diocesan Deanery 7;
• The Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton, rector of St. Stephen’s, Hollywood;
• Canon Suzanne Edwards-Acton, parishioner of St. Stephen’s, Hollywood, and co-chair, diocesan Program Group on Black Ministries;
• The Hon. Andrew Guilford, parishioner of St. John Chrysostom Church, Rancho Santa Margarita, and retired U.S. District Court judge;
• Dr. Tim Helton, founding member, Ventura County Interfaith Community, and lay leader, St. Columba’s, Camarillo
• Mr. Casey Jones, lay leader at St. Stephen’s, Hollywood, and Jubilee Year alumnus;
• The Rev. Canon Melissa McCarthy, diocesan canon to the ordinary;
• Pasadena Police Chief John Perez;
• The Rev. Sam Pillsbury, assisting, St. Athanasius, Los Angeles;
• The Rev. Mary Moreno Richardson, retired priest in Santa Barbara and active chaplain and county commissioner;
• Mr. Lloyd Wilkey, founder of Mindful Policing Institute;
• Canon Robert Williams, diocesan staff liaison and canon for common life; parishioner at St. James in the City, Los Angeles.

The commission meets virtually at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month