You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including at a combined post-wildfire solidarity meeting of deacons and priests from our northern and central Los Angeles climes, aka deaneries I and III, convened by their gracious deans, the Very Rev. Canon Ian Elliott Davies and the Very Rev. Melissa Campbell Langdell and hosted by the Rev. Dr. Joyce Stickney and her colleagues at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church in Malibu…the Rev. Dr. Fennie Hsin-Fen Chang, as we compared notes on the visit this summer of the Rt. Rev. Lennon Chang (no relation) of the Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan…to discuss how IRIS Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Service, Los Angeles will persist despite the federal government’s harsh policies toward refugees, executive director Troy Elder, his colleagues Hilda Sarkisians and Else Duff, and the Rev. Canon Melissa McCarthy, canon to the ordinary…and a neighbor who never quite caught a couple of Canada geese around Echo Park Lake, viewed from St. Paul’s Commons, Echo Park.
