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NetsforLife exceeds goal to fight malaria ®
L.A. diocese helps churchwide campaign raise more than $5 million
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Called to the Wall: Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce, above, leads pilgrims in “Called to the Wall,” a one-day Via Crucis (“Way of the Cross”) pilgrimage to the U.S.- Mexico border last year to demonstrate solidarity with immigrants. At left, Luis Garibay, building superintendent of the Cathedral Center, secures a figure of Jesus that accompanied the group. Bruce, along with Bishop Diocesan James Mathes of the Diocese of San Diego, will lead a similar pilgrimage tomorrow, March 25, the Monday of Holy Week. Participants will gather at 8:30 a.m. at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, and begin by praying the Stations of the Cross in English and Spanish. They will caravan by car to Church of the Messiah in Santa Ana, then to St. John’s Church, Chula Vista, and finally to a parking lot near the beach in south San Diego, where they will leave their cars to take a 45-minute walk along the shore to the border fence at Friendship Park. At the border wall, Bishop Bruce and Bishop Mathes will celebrate Eucharist at about 3 p.m. Participants may join in at any of the several stops on the way. For further information and the day’s schedule, visit www. episcopalnews.com and click on the headline “All are invited to ‘Called to the Wall’ pilgrimage March 25.”
he NetsforLife® Inspiration Fund has exceeded its $5 million goal due to the generosity of supporters across the Episcopal Church and beyond, according to a release from Episcopal Relief & Development, which sponsors the fund. Among the supporters were congregations, schools, organizations and individuals in the Diocese of Los Angeles who raised enough money to buy more than more than 23,000 nets, according to Christian Kassoff, diocesan coordinator. Since 2006, Episcopal Relief & Development’s NetsforLife program partnership has distributed more than 11 million mosquito nets and reduced malaria-related deaths by 45% in participating sub-Saharan African communities. Working in partnership with churches and faith-based groups, NetsforLife has trained 82,000 community agents and reached more than 30 million people in remote areas of Africa. At the 2009 General Convention, the Episcopal Church made NetsforLife the centerpiece of its response to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and pledged 0.7% of its budget to this campaign. Although the campaign is complete, the work of NetsforLife will continue. Contributions may be sent to NetsforLife Inspiration Fund, Episcopal Relief & Development, P.O. Box 7058, Merrifield, VA 22116-7058. ?
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dults and young adults (age 15 and up) are invited to join an El Salvador mission exposure trip July 17 - 24, 2013. The journey will be hosted by Foundacion Cristosal and the Diocese of El Salvador, which shares a companion relationship with the Diocese of Los Angeles. The Rev. Julie Bryant will be chaplain for the group. Participants will work on a project with Salvadoran youth, learn about Cristosal’s rightsbased approach to community development and how to use it with other missions at home
and abroad, meet Bishop Martin Barahona, and visit cultural sites related to the martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero (whose Episcopal Church commemoration is today, March 24) and the Salvadoran civil war. Foundacion Cristosal is an organization dedicated to human rights and community development work in El Salvador. For information, contact Christian Kassoff of the World Mission Group at 714.868.6867 or [email protected]. Cost is $1,650 per person, and application deadline is May 15. ?
MARY FRANCES SCHJONBERG / ENS
El Salvador mission exposure trip planned this summer
NetsforLife volunteers use theater as one way to teach about the importance of using an insecticidetreated net to avoid contracting malaria.
a r o und the d i o cese SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 3:30 p.m.
Sunday of the Passion Concert
Trinity Episcopal Church 1500 State Street, Santa Barbara Information: 805.687.0189
F r o m the b i sh o ps
Beginning the Holy Week journey By Diane Jardine Bruce
I
t is today, Palm Sunday, that we begin our week-long celebration of our Christian Passover. Today we hear of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, the colt that he rode on walking on palm branches — the people cheering: Hosanna! Hosanna! But it isn’t all hosannas and cheering this week. Holy Week is a journey in and of itself — through triumph and pain, from death to life! I often think if we “do this week right” — if we truly follow the story of Christ in Holy Week — our lives will be full of hosannas, full of sadness, full of grief, and finally, full of joy. Jam-packed into one week, we experience every human emotion — deeply. As we journey together to the last Supper and to the cross, we are called to answer if we know Jesus or not — to know Christ, or to deny that we know this person who was nailed to a cross. Will we confess our faith, or run away and think that we are saving our
SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 4 p.m.
Palm Sunday Choral Concert
St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church 6201 E. Willow, Long Beach Information: 562.420.1311 SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 7:30 p.m.
Compline
St. James in-the-City Episcopal Church 3903 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles Information: 213.388.3417, ext. 200 TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 7 p.m.
Taizé Worship Service
St. Francis Episcopal Church 2200 Via Rosa, Palos Verdes Estates Information: 310.375.4617 TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 7:30 p.m.
Holy Week Taizé
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 7th & Atlantic, Long Beach Information: 562.436.4047 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 7:30 p.m.
Contemplation & Prayer in the style of Taizé All Saints’ Episcopal Church 504 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills Information: 310.275.0123 ext. 112
T a k e n o te
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 10:30 a.m.
Our Saviour Center Director Installation
Kids’ Campus Youth Center 4316 Peck Road, El Monte Reservations: [email protected] or 626.579.2190, ext. 111 More listings and program information may be found at www.ladiocese.org (“Calendar”) THE
lives? If we face ourselves, and are honest with ourselves, and turn our faces to that light of Easter, we will find ourselves standing outside the tomb on Easter day, forgiven and loved — forgiven and loved — rejoicing with those that had faith then, through the ages and now. Rejoicing that our Savior is risen, a Savior who loves us — us — as broken and fragile as we are. I invite you to be passionate about this week of the Passion. Let us explore in this short week more and more of who we are as God’s children, and what God’s Son has done for us! It is a humbling yet wonderful experience. ?
Volume 2, Number 12
Episcopal News Weekly Editor: Janet Kawamoto, [email protected] Correspondent: The Rev. Patricia McCaughan, [email protected] Art Director: Molly Ruttan-Moffat, www.mollyruttan.com Advertising: Bob Williams, [email protected]
Local priest named to planning team for Episcopal Youth Event
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he Rev. Earl Gibson, chaplain at St. Mar- leaders. Gibson, who is canonically resident garet’s Episcopal School in San Juan Cap- in the Diocese of Arizona, will represent istrano, has been named as a member of the Province 8 on the planning team. The team consists of 14 young people planning team for the 2014 Episand eight adults chosen from copal Youth Event. the provinces of the Episcopal EYE 2014 — the 12th such triennial event — will be held in Church. Their work will be coorJuly 9 - 13, 2014 in the Philadeldinated by Bronwyn Clark Skov, phia area, in partnership with Episcopal Church youth ministhe Diocese of Pennsylvania. It tries officer. For more about EYE is expected to draw hundreds of 2014, visit www.episcopalchurch. young people in grades 9 - 12 org/youth-ministries or the Facefrom throughout the Episcopal book page at www.facebook.com/ Church, as well as their adult Earl Gibson EpiscopalYouthEvent ?
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Episcopal News Weekly www.episcopalnews.com
serving the six-county diocese of Los Angeles
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The Episcopal News
march 24, 2013
NetsforLife exceeds goal to fight malaria ®
L.A. diocese helps churchwide campaign raise more than $5 million
JANET KAWAMOTO
T
Called to the Wall: Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce, above, leads pilgrims in “Called to the Wall,” a one-day Via Crucis (“Way of the Cross”) pilgrimage to the U.S.- Mexico border last year to demonstrate solidarity with immigrants. At left, Luis Garibay, building superintendent of the Cathedral Center, secures a figure of Jesus that accompanied the group. Bruce, along with Bishop Diocesan James Mathes of the Diocese of San Diego, will lead a similar pilgrimage tomorrow, March 25, the Monday of Holy Week. Participants will gather at 8:30 a.m. at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, and begin by praying the Stations of the Cross in English and Spanish. They will caravan by car to Church of the Messiah in Santa Ana, then to St. John’s Church, Chula Vista, and finally to a parking lot near the beach in south San Diego, where they will leave their cars to take a 45-minute walk along the shore to the border fence at Friendship Park. At the border wall, Bishop Bruce and Bishop Mathes will celebrate Eucharist at about 3 p.m. Participants may join in at any of the several stops on the way. For further information and the day’s schedule, visit www. episcopalnews.com and click on the headline “All are invited to ‘Called to the Wall’ pilgrimage March 25.”
he NetsforLife® Inspiration Fund has exceeded its $5 million goal due to the generosity of supporters across the Episcopal Church and beyond, according to a release from Episcopal Relief & Development, which sponsors the fund. Among the supporters were congregations, schools, organizations and individuals in the Diocese of Los Angeles who raised enough money to buy more than more than 23,000 nets, according to Christian Kassoff, diocesan coordinator. Since 2006, Episcopal Relief & Development’s NetsforLife program partnership has distributed more than 11 million mosquito nets and reduced malaria-related deaths by 45% in participating sub-Saharan African communities. Working in partnership with churches and faith-based groups, NetsforLife has trained 82,000 community agents and reached more than 30 million people in remote areas of Africa. At the 2009 General Convention, the Episcopal Church made NetsforLife the centerpiece of its response to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and pledged 0.7% of its budget to this campaign. Although the campaign is complete, the work of NetsforLife will continue. Contributions may be sent to NetsforLife Inspiration Fund, Episcopal Relief & Development, P.O. Box 7058, Merrifield, VA 22116-7058. ?
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dults and young adults (age 15 and up) are invited to join an El Salvador mission exposure trip July 17 - 24, 2013. The journey will be hosted by Foundacion Cristosal and the Diocese of El Salvador, which shares a companion relationship with the Diocese of Los Angeles. The Rev. Julie Bryant will be chaplain for the group. Participants will work on a project with Salvadoran youth, learn about Cristosal’s rightsbased approach to community development and how to use it with other missions at home
and abroad, meet Bishop Martin Barahona, and visit cultural sites related to the martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero (whose Episcopal Church commemoration is today, March 24) and the Salvadoran civil war. Foundacion Cristosal is an organization dedicated to human rights and community development work in El Salvador. For information, contact Christian Kassoff of the World Mission Group at 714.868.6867 or [email protected]. Cost is $1,650 per person, and application deadline is May 15. ?
MARY FRANCES SCHJONBERG / ENS
El Salvador mission exposure trip planned this summer
NetsforLife volunteers use theater as one way to teach about the importance of using an insecticidetreated net to avoid contracting malaria.
a r o und the d i o cese SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 3:30 p.m.
Sunday of the Passion Concert
Trinity Episcopal Church 1500 State Street, Santa Barbara Information: 805.687.0189
F r o m the b i sh o ps
Beginning the Holy Week journey By Diane Jardine Bruce
I
t is today, Palm Sunday, that we begin our week-long celebration of our Christian Passover. Today we hear of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, the colt that he rode on walking on palm branches — the people cheering: Hosanna! Hosanna! But it isn’t all hosannas and cheering this week. Holy Week is a journey in and of itself — through triumph and pain, from death to life! I often think if we “do this week right” — if we truly follow the story of Christ in Holy Week — our lives will be full of hosannas, full of sadness, full of grief, and finally, full of joy. Jam-packed into one week, we experience every human emotion — deeply. As we journey together to the last Supper and to the cross, we are called to answer if we know Jesus or not — to know Christ, or to deny that we know this person who was nailed to a cross. Will we confess our faith, or run away and think that we are saving our
SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 4 p.m.
Palm Sunday Choral Concert
St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church 6201 E. Willow, Long Beach Information: 562.420.1311 SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 7:30 p.m.
Compline
St. James in-the-City Episcopal Church 3903 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles Information: 213.388.3417, ext. 200 TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 7 p.m.
Taizé Worship Service
St. Francis Episcopal Church 2200 Via Rosa, Palos Verdes Estates Information: 310.375.4617 TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 7:30 p.m.
Holy Week Taizé
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 7th & Atlantic, Long Beach Information: 562.436.4047 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 7:30 p.m.
Contemplation & Prayer in the style of Taizé All Saints’ Episcopal Church 504 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills Information: 310.275.0123 ext. 112
T a k e n o te
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 10:30 a.m.
Our Saviour Center Director Installation
Kids’ Campus Youth Center 4316 Peck Road, El Monte Reservations: [email protected] or 626.579.2190, ext. 111 More listings and program information may be found at www.ladiocese.org (“Calendar”) THE
lives? If we face ourselves, and are honest with ourselves, and turn our faces to that light of Easter, we will find ourselves standing outside the tomb on Easter day, forgiven and loved — forgiven and loved — rejoicing with those that had faith then, through the ages and now. Rejoicing that our Savior is risen, a Savior who loves us — us — as broken and fragile as we are. I invite you to be passionate about this week of the Passion. Let us explore in this short week more and more of who we are as God’s children, and what God’s Son has done for us! It is a humbling yet wonderful experience. ?
Volume 2, Number 12
Episcopal News Weekly Editor: Janet Kawamoto, [email protected] Correspondent: The Rev. Patricia McCaughan, [email protected] Art Director: Molly Ruttan-Moffat, www.mollyruttan.com Advertising: Bob Williams, [email protected]
Local priest named to planning team for Episcopal Youth Event
T
he Rev. Earl Gibson, chaplain at St. Mar- leaders. Gibson, who is canonically resident garet’s Episcopal School in San Juan Cap- in the Diocese of Arizona, will represent istrano, has been named as a member of the Province 8 on the planning team. The team consists of 14 young people planning team for the 2014 Episand eight adults chosen from copal Youth Event. the provinces of the Episcopal EYE 2014 — the 12th such triennial event — will be held in Church. Their work will be coorJuly 9 - 13, 2014 in the Philadeldinated by Bronwyn Clark Skov, phia area, in partnership with Episcopal Church youth ministhe Diocese of Pennsylvania. It tries officer. For more about EYE is expected to draw hundreds of 2014, visit www.episcopalchurch. young people in grades 9 - 12 org/youth-ministries or the Facefrom throughout the Episcopal book page at www.facebook.com/ Church, as well as their adult Earl Gibson EpiscopalYouthEvent ?
Did you know?
FEATURED ITEM:
The Diocese of Los Angeles has a full-service Credit Union. The Episcopal Community Federal Credit Union has been in existence since 1994, and any Episcopalian in the diocese can join.
Bill Pay Auto Loans Signature Loans Business Loans Wire Transfers Financial Education
THE 1979 BCP AND NRSV BIBLE
Religious Jewelry
Prayer Books/Bibles
ECFCU offers a full line of financial products: Saving and Checking Accounts Free Income Tax Preparation Holiday Club Accounts Debit/ATM Cards Individual Credit Counseling 24-Hour Telephone Information On-Line Banking
Gifts
800-366-1536 ext. 254 www.efcula.org
840 ECHO PARK AVENUE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90026 PLEASE CALL AT 213.482.2040, EXT. 228 MONDAY – FRIDAY: 9AM – 4PM • SATURDAY: 10AM – 2PM
