Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church Family, Pasadena California
You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited by God and our church family to please join us for Ash Wednesday Service, March 5 @ 6pm, in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care, on our continuing journey building the Beloved Community brick by brick, with 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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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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The Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤 Blog – Archive 1
October 2025 Blog SHOW UP & SHOW OUT CALL-TO-ACTION TO THE SAINT BARNABAS CHURCH FAMILY, LOVED ONES & FRIENDS TO SHOW OUR LOVE, SAINT BARNABAS STYLE🖤! BIBLE STUDY EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY AND PRAYER MEETING EVERY THURSDAY! LET’S GO DOYERS! BIBLE STUDY EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY EVENING HOSTED BY BROTHER GIL & SISTER COURTNEY CONTINUING NEXT WEDNESDAY NOV 5 AND NOV 19. ALL SESSIONS WILL START AT 6:30PM SHARP AT 729 ELMIRA ST., PASADENA 91104. FOR MORE INFO EMAIL GIL @ G.L.HAMILTON2019@GMAIL.COM PRAYER WARRIOR ZOOM CALLS EVERY THURSDAY EVENING @ 6PM SHARP HOSTED BY BROTHER ROBERT https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88206614265?pwd=iEOUnz8fQTs00grzMgWdp57gnHVvKh.1 You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited by God and our church family to please join us in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care, on our continuing journey building the Beloved Community brick by brick, with Love, Saint Barnabas Style Saint Barnabas Pasadena Church Family on Facebook Vestry Meeting Minutes – Oct 26 Open, Honest and Transparent VESTRY MINUTES 102625Download You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited by God and our church family...
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