Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church, Pasadena California
You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us during this our centennial year and beyond (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care), on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤
Who We Are
Saint Barnabas Pasadena is the oldest historically black Episcopal church family in the San Gabriel Valley (2023 is our centennial year, Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise), which celebrates our diversity as a community of love, serving Jesus Christ through radical acceptance, beautiful worship, generous spirit, and biblically based study while making a difference in the world through serving as a community hub with spokes in the greater community of Northwest Pasadena and West Altadena. ALL are welcome! Please come join us!
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The Love, Saint Barnabas Style Blog
December 2023 Blog Time is very slow for those who wait. Time is very fast for those who are scared. Time is very long for those who lament. Time is very short for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternal. Edward de Vere Yesterday, Rev Golie “The Truth” preached on Love Saint Barnabas Style 🖤! Please enjoy the on-demand re-streaming of this breathtaking sermon by clicking HERE! You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us during this our centennial year and beyond (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care), on our continuing journey building the Beloved Community brick by brick, with Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤 This December, the Saint Barnabas Pasadena Church Family sends you ALL, Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤 – eternal and unconditional Love that transcends race without denying it! Building the Beloved Community brick by brick. You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us during this our centennial year and beyond (in-person, online, offline...
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Our 100 Year Story
The Saint Barnabas Church Family 100 Year Story They Thought They Buried Us, But God Actually Planted Us The history of the Episcopal Church in the Los Angeles area goes back to 1864, but the background to the founding of Saint Barnabas Pasadena was the “Great Migration” of African Americans from the South, which started at the beginning of the twentieth century. In more recent years a significant number of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to California from Latin America (especially Costa Rica and Panama) have joined Saint Barnabas. The African Americans who came to Pasadena were confronted with Jim Crow and forbidden from worshiping at All Saints Church in Pasadena. Not to be denied, on June 16, 1909, a meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Georgia Weatherton on South Fair Oaks Avenue, “to organize an Episcopal mission”, soon known as Saint Barnabas Guild, according to handwritten minutes in the diocesan archives. The fledgling members supported their ministry by holding food sales. By 1911, services were being held in...
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