Then & Now: Southland Episcopalians weather 1918, 2020 pandemic crises
The 1918 global influenza pandemic hit Los Angeles at a time when the Sunday school of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church was growing so rapidly that the young vicar, the Rev. Dr. John Misao Yamazaki, had replaced a borrowed horse and wagon with a Dodge bus to transport the...
Church in the age of COVID-19: A cyberspace Holy Week
Palm Sunday usually jumpstarts Holy Week, with Episcopalians celebrating outside churches, waving palm branches that have been blessed, marching in procession, proclaiming “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest” and singing All...
Church in the age of COVID-19: Learning to Zoom
California’s March 19 shelter-in-place COVID-19 protection order has left students like Eric Filson, 13, of Upland, feeling “homesick for school.” The forced vacation “feels like house arrest” but daily morning Zoom chapels have helped to ease his feelings of...
IRIS continues ministry to refugees, immigrants and asylum-seekers during shutdown
Despite the current challenges our country is facing surrounding COVID-19, Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Service (IRIS) remains dedicated to providing services to refugees, immigrants, and asylees. Since the middle of March, our staff has practiced social...
From Bishop Taylor: One Body & One Spirit Emergency Appeal
For in the one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body. — 1 Cor. 12:13a Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ. The global health crisis has affected the life of each member of our diocesan family – each of us, and all our neighbors. You are all in my prayers daily...
Seeds of Hope responds to COVID-19 crisis with food distribution, online classes
As the Southland hunkers down to mitigate the spread of Coronavirus, Seeds of Hope, food justice ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, is stepping up its efforts to ensure access to healthy, nutritious food by providing fresh fruits and vegetables to...
Can you sew? Hospitals, other agencies need face masks for medical providers, patients, at-risk elderly
As the coronavirus crisis continues, hospitals and medical providers are rapidly running out of face masks for their own use and that of their patients, and sewing hobbyists are breaking out their machines and fabric stashes to help. The Rev. Canon Jaime...
Health and Strength in Community V
A message from Bishop Diocesan John Harvey Taylor The gist of this week’s orders from federal, state, and local authorities is that we are safer at home and that reducing our contact with other people makes them safer. Healthy people are told to leave our homes only...
Credit Union will make emergency loans available to churches, institutions at reduced rate during COVID-19 crisis
Esta historia aparece en español después del texto en inglés. This story appears in Spanish after the English text. The Episcopal Community Federal Credit Union has set aside a $500,000 emergency cash fund to assist churches and other institutions of the diocese whose...
Kaleidoscope offers webinar on building community in a time of isolation
The Kaleidoscope Institute invites the diocesan and Episcopal Church community to join a live webinar on Friday, March 20, 1 p.m. PDT to explore ways to form “Gracious Community in a No-Touch World.” The Rev. Canon Eric H. F. Law, Kaleidoscope founder and director,...
