March 2023 Blog

Love, Saint Barnabas Style – eternal and unconditional Love that transcends race without denying it!

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 🖤

SPREAD THE WORD!

Click here for the Saint Barnabas Church Family calendar… St. Barnabas Episcopal Church – Pasadena, CA Calendar | Facebook

Women’s HERstory/Women’s Future Month Moment

FREE!!! Debbie Allen Dance Academy: Nina Simone’s “Four Women” @ California African American Museum (CAAM) Sunday, March 26, 2023 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

FREE RSVP CLICK HERE

In support of The Mecca, Howard University, we need your VOTE for this year’s Home Depot’s Retool Your School program! Help preserve the legacy of our campus; With your help, Howard can win a $150K Retool Your School grant!

Click here for more information

SPREAD THE WORD!

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 3/20-3/26/2023 – Mo. Marianne

THIS SUNDAY Mar 26, Lent V 9 AM Choral Eucharist The last Sunday of Lent before we enter into Holy Week.

T-SHIRTS, YAY! Thanks to all who purchased centennial t-shirts, especially those who gave an extra donation. Thanks to your generosity, we raised over $500 for our centennial celebration! Thanks also to Marco White for conceiving and running this wonderful fundraiser!

UPCOMING SERVICES/EVENTS

PALM SUNDAY Apr 2, 9 AM Liturgy of the Palms & Choral Eucharist We will hear the Passion Gospel and soprano Sarah Moore offers “Ride On, King Jesus.”

Mar. 29, 5 PM, “Under My Roof.” The LA Diocese invites parishes to discern ways of actively welcoming refugees.→→→→

REMEMBER 2023 is Saint Barnabas’ Centennial Year! Planning is underway for our centennial celebration, “Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise.” Check out the webpage at stbarnabaspasadena.org/ saint-barnabas-100 and please speak to Marco White to find out how to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime event.

OUR SAINT BARNABAS 100 – “STILL WE RISE” CENTENNIAL T-SHIRT FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN HAS ENDED AS A COMPLETE SUCCESS!

Thank you to our ENTIRE Saint Barnabas Church Family and our Extended Church Family for your support in our first t-shirt fundraiser campaign!

(Your orders should arrive around Apr 04)

We exceeded our goals for this fundraiser campaign with over $500 raised!

That’s LOVE, Saint Barnabas Style! 🖤

Now the real work begins as we ramp up the planning of our Saint Barnabas Day/100th Year Celebration/Inaugural Church Family Reunion & Homecoming on Sunday, June 11, 2023.

SPREAD THE WORD!

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 🖤

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 3/13-3/19/2023 – Mo. Marianne

TOMORROW NIGHT WEDS MAR 15, 6:30 PM Bible Study Completing the book of Daniel accompanied by brief evening prayer honoring St. Patrick of Ireland. Join us for the lives and witness of saints of the church, peaceful prayer, discussion and snacks! All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

ALSO TOMORROW and Mar. 29, 5 PM, “Under My Roof.” The LA Diocese invites parishes to discern ways of actively welcoming refugees. →→→→→→

THIS SUNDAY Mar 19 Lent III 9 AM Choral Eucharist “Laetere” Sunday–enjoy a refreshing service emphasizing rejoicing even in the penitential season of Lent.

T-SHIRTS! In support of the June 11 Saint Barnabas Day event, we’ve initiated a fundraiser campaign now through 3/17 with a centennial Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise T-shirt. This fundraiser campaign allows everyone to order their own t-shirts, in sizes S-XXXL for $25, have them delivered to your own home and donate additional funds as well. The online order web page is https://www.customink.com/ fundraising/saint-barnabas-100-still-we-rise, and it is accessible on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/stbarnabaspasadena. If anyone in the congregation needs us to order t-shirts for them, please let us know. All orders will be produced at the end of the fundraiser (3/17) and shipped by 3/29 directly to you! Get your Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise t-shirts and support our 100th Year Centennial Anniversary TODAY!

REMEMBER 2023 is Saint Barnabas’ Centennial Year! Planning is underway for our centennial celebration, “Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise.” Check out the webpage at stbarnabaspasadena.org/saint-barnabas-100 and please speak to Marco White to find out how to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime event.

UPCOMING SERVICES/EVENTS

FRIDAY Mar 17, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 412 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena CA 91105. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

SUNDAY Mar 26, Lent IV 9 AM Choral Eucharist The last Sunday of Lent before we enter into Holy Week.

Women’s HERstory/Women’s Future Month Moment

ArtNight Pasadena

Celebrating Our Sheros

ArtNight is an ongoing partnership among many cultural institutions and the Cultural Affairs Division of the City of Pasadena.
Enjoy a free evening of art, music and entertainment as Pasadena’s most prominent arts and cultural institutions swing open their doors from 6-10pm.

ArtNight Pasadena will go on RAIN or SHINE though some outdoor activities may be impacted.

Click here from more information ArtNight Pasadena SPRING 2023 – City of Pasadena

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 3/6-3/12/2023 – Mo. Marianne

TOMORROW NIGHT! 7 PM LA Diocese Lenten Services of Lament, Hope, and Call to Action for Black Lives Wednesday, March 8, 7PM at Saint Barnabas and continuing at other parishes on subsequent Wednesdays in March.

THIS SUNDAY Mar 12, Lent III 10 AM Choral Eucharist Enjoy a later start time to help ease back into Daylight Saving Time. Time change can be dangerous to health and is associated with increased traffic accidents and more. Read more here.

T-SHIRTS! In support of the June 11 Saint Barnabas Day event, we’ve initiated a fundraiser campaign now through 3/17 with a centennial Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise T-shirt. This fundraiser campaign allows everyone to order their own t-shirts, in sizes S-XXXL for $25, have them delivered to your own home and donate additional funds as well. The online order web page is https://www.customink.com/fundraising/saintbarnabas-100-still-we-rise, and it is accessible on our Facebook page https:// www.facebook.com/stbarnabaspasadena. If anyone in the congregation needs us to order t-shirts for them, please let us know. All orders will be produced at the end of the fundraiser (3/17) and shipped by 3/29 directly to you! Get your Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise t-shirts and support our 100th Year Centennial Anniversary TODAY!

REMEMBER 2023 is Saint Barnabas’ Centennial Year! Planning is underway for our centennial
celebration, “Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise.” Check out the webpage at stbarnabaspasadena.org/
saint-barnabas-100 and please speak to Marco White to find out how to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime event.

UPCOMING SERVICES/EVENTS

WEDNESDAY MAR 15, 6:30 PM Bible Study Reading the book of Daniel accompanied by brief evening
prayer inspired by Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, by Shane Claiborne. Join us for the lives and witness of saints of the church, peaceful prayer, discussion and snacks! All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

FRIDAY Mar 17, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to
shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 412 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena CA 91105. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

Join us tomorrow Wednesday at 7 at Saint Barnabas Pasadena as we host the Los Angeles Diocese Lenten Services of Lament, Hope, and Call to Action for Black Lives

Click the picture below for more information!

Women’s HERstory/Women’s Future Month Moment

The Saint Barnabas Pasadena Rose Garden

Honoring Our Matriarchs

Our Sheros Rose Garden

The Saint Barnabas Pasadena Church Family celebrates the everlasting impact of our Matriarchs in our Memorial Rose Gardens throughout our campus. So far 20 of our Matriarchs are enshrined by the most beautiful roses that symbolize their Love of Jesus Christ, the Saint Barnabas Church Family and Northwest Pasadena.

Say their names… Zuma O. Austin, Sara Elizabeth Boone, Zenobia Bruce Clark, Anita Miltonette Conerly, Flossie Jaques Duncan, Leolla Griffin, Esmeralda Hodgson, Bessie Johnson, Alyce McClelland, Charlotte McShann, Gloria Mims, Rosebud Lewis Mims, Mary Jane Strong Moses, Elizabeth Nicholson, Selena Pendleton, Susan Sheridan, Mary Kathryn Teer, Mary Louise Taylor, Dorothy Pegeron Wallace, and Aldine Young.

Rest In Power our Matriarch Queens!

Below are images of a re-dedication ceremony program from our archives. Please visit our Parish Hall to see the complete set of our extensive archives including photos, documents and other memorabilia, on full display, most of which provided by our Historian-in-Residence, our Griot, Mr. Michael Mims

100 years later, our Matriarchal tradition continues as the core of Love, Saint Barnabas Style!

Still We Rise!

ONLY 2 MORE WEEKS FOR OUR FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN ENDING 3/17!

Order your Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise Centennial T-shirt AND donate NOW and help us fund our Saint Barnabas Day/100th Year Celebration/Inaugural Church Family Reunion & Homecoming – Sunday, June 11, 2023, at 1062 N Fair Oaks Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103

ORDER YOUR T-SHIRTS AND DONATE NOW by clicking here

Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise T-shirt

From The Getty Museum Archives

Video: Ethiopian Gospel Book

Did you know that Ethiopia has one of the longest standing traditions of Christian practice in the world? In this video, Kelin Michael, a former graduate curatorial intern in the Getty Museum’s manuscripts department, and Beth Harris, Smarthistory’s executive director, explore a 16th-century gospel book that includes textiles, illuminations, and details that tell of travel, trade, and diaspora.

Watch now

Women’s HERstory/Women’s Future Month Moment

The Saint Barnabas Pasadena 8 Matriarchs

Our Sheros

The African Americans who came to Pasadena in the early 1900’s 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 the 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 the Grand Army Hall on Colorado Street.

Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church Pasadena itself was officially founded in 1923 by eight women. Among them were Ellensteen Bevans, Rosebud Mims and Georgia Weatherton in whose home on Del Mar Street the first services were held. At times as many as 29 members were present for worship on Sunday mornings.

100 years later, our Matriarchal tradition continues as the core of Love, Saint Barnabas Style!

Still We Rise!

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 2/27-3/5/2023 – Mo. Marianne

*Nicodemus visiting Jesus – Henry* *Ossawa*

THANK YOU to Sarah Moore (accompanied by Paul Kaufman) for her stirring rendition of Moses Hogan’s arrangement of the traditional spiritual “Give Me Jesus” to remind us who we rely on to help us on our Lenten journey and beyond.

THIS SUNDAY Mar 5 Lent II, 9 AM Choral Eucharist

NEXT SUNDAY Mar 12, Lent III 10 AM Choral Eucharist Time Change Day! Enjoy a later start time to help ease back into Daylight Saving Time.

TONIGHT WEDNESDAY MAR 1 6:30 PM Bible Study Reading the book of Daniel accompanied by brief evening prayer inspired by Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, by Shane Claiborne. (Tonight honoring martyrs Perpetua & Felicity) Join us for the lives and witness of saints of the church, peaceful prayer, discussion and snacks! All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

REMEMBER 2023 is Saint Barnabas’ Centennial Year! Planning is underway for our centennial celebration, “Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise.” Check out the webpage at stbarnabaspasadena.org/ saint-barnabas-100 and please speak to Marco White to find out how to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime event.

UPCOMING SERVICES/EVENTS

WEDNESDAY MAR 15, 6:30 PM Bible Study Reading the book of Daniel accompanied by brief evening prayer inspired by Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, by Shane Claiborne. Join us for the lives and witness of saints of the church, peaceful prayer, discussion and snacks! All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

February 2023 Blog

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 2/20-2/27/2023 – Mo. Marianne

THANK YOU to all who participated in two moving services this past week: The Feast of Absalom Jones and Ash Wednesday, especially powerful offerings by soloists Chris Sirois and Christie Lawrence and Paul Kaufman for sensitive accompaniment and voluntaries.

THIS SUNDAY FEB 26, Lent I, 9 AM Choral Eucharist. Soloist Sarah Moore offers “Give Me Jesus” (Dawson). We will observe the penitential rite and the current vestry will be commissioned for the coming year. Vestry meeting follows the service.

T-SHIRTS! In support of the June 11 Saint Barnabas Day event, we’ve initiated a fundraiser campaign now through 3/17 with a centennial Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise T-shirt. This fundraiser campaign allows everyone to order their own t-shirts, in sizes S-XXXL for $25, have them delivered to your own home and donate additional funds as well. The online order web page is https://www.customink.com/fundraising/saintbarnabas-100-still-we-rise, and it is accessible on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/stbarnabaspasadena. If anyone in the congregation needs us to order t-shirts for them, please let us know. All orders will be produced at the end of the fundraiser (3/17) and shipped by 3/29 directly to you! Get your Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise t-shirts and support our 100th Year Centennial Anniversary TODAY!

REMEMBER 2023 is Saint Barnabas’ Centennial Year! Planning is underway for our centennial celebration, “Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise.” Check out the webpage at stbarnabaspasadena.org/saint-barnabas-100 and please speak to Marco White to find out how to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime event.

UPCOMING SERVICES/EVENTS

SUNDAY Mar 5 Lent II, 9 AM Choral Eucharist

WEDNESDAY MAR 1, 15, 6:30 PM Bible Study New format! Our study (currently of Daniel) will now be accompanied by brief evening prayer inspired by Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, by Shane Claiborne. Join us for the lives and witness of saints of the church, peaceful prayer, discussion and snacks! All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

FRIDAY Mar 17, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 412 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena CA 91105. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

LA Opera: Russell Thomas Concert FREE @ CAAM!
Thursday, February 23, 2023
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Celebrated tenor and LA Opera Artist in Residence Russell Thomas performs H. Leslie Adams’s Nightsongs and Adolphus Hailstork’s Four Romantic Love Songs in celebration of his highly anticipated performances with the Los Angeles Opera.

Presented in partnership with the Los Angeles Opera

California African American Museum
600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, California 90037

Click here to RSVP

Friday 2/17 Union Station Serving Dinner, Saturday 2/18 Black History/Black Future Parade and Saint Barnabas 100 Celebration & Sunday Service and Fellowship 2/19/2023

WHAT A WEEKEND! SAINT BARNABAS PASADENA IS THE PLACE TO BE!

WOW! Manifesting God’s GREATNESS is a fulltime job at Saint Barnabas!

This weekend was kicked off by a very impressive number of our Church Family, blessing 25 residents of Union Station with a home cooked baked chicken feast and a heap of Love, Saint Barnabas Style!

Saturday’s combo of Pasadena’s Black History/Black Future Parade and Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise celebration was beyond our collective imaginations! Local, State and Federal VIP’s came to share in the celebration! But the most VIP of all VIP’s were the Saint Barnabas Church Family! CONGRATS Church Family! Our Centennial Celebration on June 11 will be even BIGGER and BETTER! This was also a true celebration of Northwest Pasadena! A true celebration of the under-appreciated, the unheard, and the invisible. The Saint Barnabas Church Family appreciates you, we hear you, and we see you! WE ARE YOU Northwest Pasadena!

And our Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise, 2023 Centennial yearlong celebration continued with Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship. If you want The Truth, Rev. Golie’s sermons are just that! Check it out by clicking here Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary). We were also blessed with Courtney’s dad joining us! It was GREAT seeing you!

Order your Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise Centennial T-shirt NOW and help us fund our Saint Barnabas Day/100th Year Celebration/Inaugural Church Family Reunion & Homecoming – Sunday, June 11, 2023, at 1062 N Fair Oaks Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103

ORDER YOUR T-SHIRTS NOW by clicking here

Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise T-shirt

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 2/13-2/20/2023 – Mo. Marianne

THIS SUNDAY Feb 19, Feast of Absolom Jones (Transferred), 9 AM Choral Eucharist. Celebrate Black History Month by honoring America’s first black priest (ordained 1802).

LENT BEGINS ASH WEDNESDAY Feb 22, 6:30 PM, Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes. Receive ashes as a sign of humble and intentional return to God (repentance) as we begin our Lenten sojourn with Jesus in the wilderness

BLESSED CANDLES
A few 100% beeswax candles blessed at the Candlemas service are available for those who weren’t there, or for those who would like an extra one to give to a loved one. Ask Althea, or stop by the office to receive one.

UPCOMING SERVICES

SUNDAY FEB 26, Lent I, 9 AM Choral Eucharist. We will observe the penitential rite and the current vestry will be commissioned for the coming year.

Other Upcoming Events

WEDNESDAY FEB 15, 6:30 PM Bible Study This week: St. Valentine of Rome and the book of Daniel, chapters 5-6. Join us for the lives and witness of saints of the church, peaceful prayer, discussion, and snacks! All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

FRIDAY Feb 17, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 412 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena CA 91105. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

SATURDAY Feb 18, 2023 10 AM City of Pasadena’s Black History/Black Future Month Parade. Watch the parade with your St. Barnabas family from right in front! Church will be open from 9:30 AM.

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

An Evening with Nikole Hannah-Jones

Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 6:00 PM PST @ USC Bovard Auditorium 3551 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089

FREE registration click here An Evening With Nikole Hannah-Jones

The Charlotta Bass Media Trailblazer Speaker Series
By USC Visions and Voices

Join us for the inaugural event of the Charlotta Bass Media Trailblazer Speaker Series at USC, featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones. The staff writer at The New York Times Magazine is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of The 1619 Project, which illuminates the legacy of slavery in the contemporary United States and highlights the contributions of Black Americans to every aspect of American society. The book version was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.

This special event will be presented in conjunction with the launch of USC Annenberg’s Charlotta Bass Journalism & Justice Lab, which saves, studies, and shares news stories and oral histories about Black social justice trailblazers on the West Coast. The conversation will be moderated by USC Annenberg professor, Bass Lab founder, and award-winning author Allissa V. Richardson, and will be introduced by USC President Carol L. Folt.

Click here to learn more.

Presented by the Charlotta Bass Journalism & Justice Lab at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Co-sponsored by USC Visions and Voices

Sunday Service and Fellowship 2/12/2023

Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise, 2023 Centennial yearlong celebration continued with Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship. The sermon featured Joshua who once again leveraged his Biblical Ethics Doctorate perspective, this time adding to it a reminiscence of his youth and a Levar Burton standard. It was simply UNBELIEVABLE! We were also blessed with Nancy joining us. Check it out by clicking here Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary).

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

“I know what I’m asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand-and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general, and the American Negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.”

― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Service Celebrating The Feast of Absalom Jones -Sunday Feb 19, 3pm

Streamed live on the Friends of St. Stephen’s FB page on Feb 19, 3pm – https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064673560457&sk=live_videos

ASH WEDNESDAY Feb 22, 6:30pm, Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes. Receive ashes as a sign of humble and intentional return to God (repentance) as we begin our Lenten sojourn with Jesus in the wilderness.

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Join us as we celebrate Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise, our 100 Year Centennial at the 41st Annual Pasadena Black History Parade & Festival – Saturday, February 18, 2023, at 1062 N Fair Oaks Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103 – 10am – 4pm

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Celebrate Black History Month 2023: Black Resistance: A Journey to Equality

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture

Black History Month is a time to celebrate the fullness of African American history and culture, but that cannot be contained in one month alone. Join us, the world’s largest African American museum, to humanize history and objects through the lives, tragedies and triumphs of everyday people—while paying tribute to Black pioneers’ trailblazing contributions.

Click here Celebrate Black History Month 2023 | National Museum of African American History and Culture

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 2/5-2/12/2023 – Mo. Marianne

BLESSED CANDLES
A few 100% beeswax candles blessed at last Sunday’s service are available for those who weren’t there, or for those who would like an extra one to give to a loved one. Ask Althea, or stop by the office to receive one.

THIS SUNDAY Feb12 Epiphany VI, 9 AM Choral Eucharist

2023 is Saint Barnabas’ Centennial Year! Vestry Member Marco White has been hard at work making plans for our centennial celebration, “Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise.” Check out the webpage at stbarnabaspasadena.org/saint-barnabas-100 and please speak to Marco to be part of planning this once-in-a-lifetime event.

UPCOMING SERVICES

NEXT SUNDAY Feb 19, Feast of Absolom Jones (Transferred), 9 AM Choral Eucharist. Celebrate Black History Month by honoring America’s first black priest (ordained 1802).

ASH WEDNESDAY Feb 22, 6:30 PM, Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes. Receive ashes as a sign of humble and intentional return to God (repentance) as we begin our Lenten sojourn with Jesus in the wilderness.

SUNDAY FEB 26, Lent I, 9 AM Choral Eucharist.

Other Upcoming Events

WEDNESDAY FEB 15, 6:30 PM Bible Study New format! Our study (currently of Daniel) will now be accompanied by brief evening prayer inspired by Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, by Shane Claiborne. Join us for the lives and witness of saints of the church, peaceful prayer, discussion and snacks! All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

FRIDAY Feb 17, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 412 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena CA 91105. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

SATURDAY Feb 18, 2023 10 AM City of Pasadena’s Black History/Black Future Month Parade. Watch the
parade with your St. Barnabas family from right in front! Church will be open from 9:30 AM.

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Black Prophetic Fire: An Evening of Philosophy, Politics, and Culture with Dr. Cornel West

Thursday, February 16, 2023 5:30-6:30 p.m. PT – FREE WEBINAR

Dr. Cornel West will join CalEndow Live on February 16 for a special Black History Month program moderated by Dr. Robert K. Ross, President and CEO of The California Endowment. Dr. West will share memories of his upbringing in Sacramento and describe how the lessons he learned at Shiloh Baptist Church shaped his values and philosophy of life.

In this hourlong conversation, Dr. West and Dr. Ross will reflect on the meaning of Black History Month and the leaders who inspire them today. They will take questions from our live virtual audience, on subjects ranging from ancient philosophy to the latest trends in hip-hop. Dr. West will also discuss the urgent demand for empathy and the self-care practices that help him stay optimistic, even in challenging times.

Dr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is former professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.

This virtual event is free. Registration is required. Click here to register CalEndow Live: Cornel West

Closed captions in English and simultaneous interpretation in Spanish will be available.

If you have questions, please reach out to registration@girlfridayevents.com.

Black Prophetic Fire: An Evening of Philosophy, Politics, and Culture with Dr. Cornel West is produced by CalEndow Live, providing health and racial justice programming for social change that is open for all and free for the public good.

Sunday Service and Fellowship 2/5/2023

Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise, 2023 Centennial yearlong celebration continued with a combination Sunday Morning Service/Annual Meeting and Fellowship. Mo. Marianne did it again this morning! She PREACHED with passion and biblical insight using a Notre Dame football analogy! It’s a MUST WATCH sermon! Our preaching Team ALWAYS helps us find our way home! Check it out by clicking here Sunday Morning Service/Annual Meeting on Facebook Live (no login necessary).

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Feb. 7, 1926: Carter G. Woodson Launched Negro History Week

This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement,
because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
— Carter G. Woodson

Carter G. Woodson in his library. Source: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History

On Feb. 7, 1926, Carter G. Woodson, initiated the first celebration of Negro History Week which led to Black History Month, to extend and deepen the study and scholarship on African American history, all year long. Further below is an essay on the history and purpose of the commemoration, including why Woodson chose February.

The story of Claudette Colvin is one of many examples of the impact of Negro History Week (Black History Month). She refused to move on a Montgomery bus on March 2, 1955, inspired by the lessons in February at her school.

I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, and I could not move.

By Daryl Michael Scott

Carter G. Woodson chose February for Negro History Week for reasons of tradition and reform. It is commonly said that Woodson selected February to encompass the birthdays of two great Americans who played a prominent role in shaping Black history, namely Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, whose birthdays are the 12th and the 14th, respectively. More importantly, he chose them for reasons of tradition. Since Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, the Black community, along with other Republicans, had been celebrating the fallen president’s birthday. And since the late 1890s, Black communities across the country had been celebrating Douglass’. Well aware of the pre-existing celebrations, Woodson built Negro History Week around traditional days of commemorating the Black past. He was asking the public to extend their study of Black history, not to create a new tradition. In doing so, he increased his chances for success.

Yet Woodson was up to something more than building on tradition. Without saying so, he aimed to reform it from the study of two great men to a great race. Though he admired both men, Woodson had never been fond of the celebrations held in their honor. He railed against the “ignorant spellbinders” who addressed large, convivial gatherings and displayed their lack of knowledge about the men and their contributions to history. More importantly, Woodson believed that history was made by the people, not simply or primarily by great men. He envisioned the study and celebration of the Negro as a race, not simply as the producers of a great man. And Lincoln, however great, had not freed the slaves— the Union Army, including hundreds of thousands of Black soldiers and sailors, had done that. Rather than focusing on two men, the Black community, he believed, should focus on the countless Black men and women who had contributed to the advance of human civilization.

From the beginning, Woodson was overwhelmed by the response to his call. Negro History Week appeared across the country in schools and before the public. The 1920s was the decade of the New Negro, a name given to the post-World War I generation because of its rising racial pride and consciousness. Urbanization and industrialization had brought over a million African Americans from the rural South into big cities of the nation. The expanding Black middle class became participants in and consumers of Black literature and culture. Black history clubs sprang up, teachers demanded materials to instruct their pupils, and progressive whites stepped forward and endorsed the efforts.

Woodson and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) scrambled to meet the demand. They set a theme for the annual celebration, and provided study materials—pictures, lessons for teachers, plays for historical performances, and posters of important dates and people. Provisioned with a steady flow of knowledge, high schools in progressive communities formed Negro History Clubs. To serve the desire of history buffs to participate in the re-education of Black folks and the nation, ASALH formed branches that stretched from coast to coast. In 1937, at the urging of Mary McLeod Bethune, Woodson established the Negro History Bulletin, which focused on the annual theme. As Black populations grew, mayors issued Negro History Week proclamations, and in cities, like Syracuse, progressive whites joined Negro History Week with National Brotherhood Week.

Like most ideas that resonate with the spirit of the times, Negro History Week proved to be more dynamic than Woodson or ASALH could control. By the 1930s, Woodson complained about the intellectual charlatans, Black and white, popping up everywhere, seeking to take advantage of the public interest in Black history. He warned teachers not to invite speakers who had less knowledge than the students themselves. Increasingly, publishing houses that had previously ignored black topics and authors rushed to put books on the market and in the schools. Instant experts appeared everywhere, and non-scholarly works appeared from “mushroom presses.” In America, nothing popular escapes either commercialization or eventual trivialization, and so Woodson, the constant reformer, had his hands full in promoting celebrations worthy of the people who had made the history.

Well before his death in 1950, Woodson believed that the weekly celebrations — not the study or celebration of Black history — would eventually come to an end. In fact, Woodson never viewed Black history as a one-week affair. He pressed for schools to use Negro History Week to demonstrate what students learned all year. In the same vein, he established a Black studies extension program to reach adults throughout the year. It was in this sense that Blacks would learn of their past on a daily basis that he looked forward to the time when an annual celebration would no longer be necessary. Generations before Morgan Freeman and other advocates of all-year commemorations, Woodson believed that Black history was too important to America and the world to be crammed into a limited time frame. He spoke of a shift from Negro History Week to Negro History Year.

In the 1940s, efforts began slowly within the Black community to expand the study of Black history in the schools and Black history celebrations before the public. In the South, Black teachers often taught Negro History as a supplement to United States history. One early beneficiary of the movement reported that his teacher would hide Woodson’s textbook beneath his desk to avoid drawing the wrath of the principal. During the Civil Rights Movement in the South, the Freedom Schools incorporated Black history into the curriculum to advance social change. The Negro History movement was an intellectual insurgency that was part of every larger effort to transform race relations.

The 1960s had a dramatic effect on the study and celebration of Black history. Before the decade was over, Negro History Week would be well on its way to becoming Black History Month. The shift to a month-long celebration began even before Woodson’s death. As early as 1940s, Blacks in West Virginia, Woodson’s home state where he often spoke, began to celebrate February as Negro History Month. In Chicago, a now forgotten cultural activist, Fredrick H. Hammaurabi, started celebrating Negro History Month in the mid-1960s. Having taken an African name in the 1930s, Hammaurabi used his cultural center, the House of Knowledge, to fuse African consciousness with the study of the Black past.

By the late 1960s, as young Blacks on college campuses became increasingly conscious of links with Africa, Black History Month replaced Negro History Week at a quickening pace. Within ASALH, younger intellectuals, part of the awakening, prodded Woodson’s organization to change with the times. They succeeded. In 1976, fifty years after the first celebration, ASALH used its influence to institutionalize the shifts from a week to a month, and from Negro history to Black history. Since the mid-1970s, every U.S. president has issued proclamations endorsing the ASALH’s annual theme.

What Carter G. Woodson would say about the continued celebrations is unknown, but he would smile on all honest efforts to make Black history a field of serious study and provide the public with thoughtful celebrations.

Carter G. Woodson statue at 900 Rhode Island Ave NW in Washington, D.C. Photo by Scott Abbott.

Daryl Michael Scott is professor of history at Howard University and former president of ASALH.

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 1/29-2/5/2023 – Mo. Marianne

THANKS TO ALL who participated in last week’s annual meeting, with special thanks to Treasurer Jonathan Williams for all the work that went into the clear and concise budget presentation and Marco White for designing and arranging new banners and T-shirts! Also, congratulations to Gil Hamilton and Abbey Craigg, elected as delegate and alternate, respectively, to represent St. Barnabas at the 20223 diocesan convention. (h/t Gil for picking up the awesome food from Home State!)

THIS SUNDAY Feb 5, Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple (Candlemas), 9 AM Choral Eucharist. 100% beeswax candles will be blessed during the service and given out for use in your homes.

UPCOMING SERVICES

NEXT SUNDAY Feb12 Epiphany VI, 9 AM Choral Eucharist.

SUNDAY Feb 19, Feast of Absolom Jones (Transferred), 9 AM Choral Eucharist. Celebrate Black History Month by honoring America’s first black priest (ordained 1802).

Other Upcoming Events

WEDNESDAY FEB 15, 6:30 PM Bible Study New format! Our study (currently of Daniel) will now be accompanied by brief evening prayer inspired by Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, by Shane Claiborne. Join us for the lives and witness of saints of the church, peaceful prayer, discussion and snacks! All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

FRIDAY Feb 17, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 412 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena CA 91105. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

SATURDAY Feb 18, 10 AM City of Pasadena’s Black History/Black Future Month Parade. Watch the parade with your St. Barnabas family from right in front! Church will be open from 9:30 AM.

January 2023 Blog

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Happy Birthday to Jackie Roosevelt Robinson, our West Pasadena Pepper St., John Muir HS, UCLA & Dodger Homie

God’s GREATSNESS is in our water!

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To our Dream Keeper, Jesus Christ

Langston Hughes – Dream Keeper

Sunday Service and Fellowship 1/29/2023

Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise!, 2023 Centennial yearlong celebration continued today with a combination Sunday Morning Service/Annual Meeting and Fellowship. Mo. Marianne was El Fuego 🔥 this morning! She didn’t give a sermon, she PREACHED! Mo. Marianne then started a new tradition of having our Annual Meeting during the service, where Mo. Marianne, Althea, Violet (virtually), Jonathan, Sue, Gil, Roberto and Marco delivered AMAZING reports to the church family. Check it out by clicking here Sunday Morning Service/Annual Meeting on Facebook Live (no login necessary). The “icing on the cake” was Gil and Courtney provided Breakfast Tacos from Home State, that were delicious! YUMMMMMM! Thank you, Hamilton’s!

James Baldwin asks a simple question…

The answer is NOW!

Click here – Saint Barnabas on Facebook – James Baldwin

Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry

A pastoral word on the death of Tyre Nichols

Sense cannot be made of the murder of a young man at the hands of five men whose vocation and calling are to protect and serve. This was evil and senseless.

There is a passage from the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah, which is later quoted in Matthew’s Gospel when innocent baby boys are killed by an immoral dictator:

“A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children;

she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

—Jeremiah 31:15, Matthew 2:18

With the murder of Tyre Nichols, another mother, as in the biblical texts, weeps, with the mothers of Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others. A family grieves. A community fears. A nation is ashamed. Like the psalmist in the Bible, something in us cries out, “How long, O Lord, how long?” How long violence, how long cruelty, how long the utter disregard for the dignity and worth of every child of God? How long?

As if this wasn’t enough, there is another horrible dimension to what happened. Tyre Nichols was beaten, kicked, and cursed as if he was not a human being. Then, after he was lying on the ground, having called for his mother, they let him stay there for several minutes without anyone, including the police and EMT who were present, providing medical assistance. Not one Good Samaritan.

Jesus once told a story to teach about what it looks like to love one’s neighbor, which Moses and Jesus both said is a commandment of God. It’s a story about a man beaten nearly to death and left on the side of the road to die by people who knew what Moses taught about love for God and neighbor—and what the prophet Micah taught when he said that God requires three things of us: to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.

Only one person stopped to help the man, and he did so without regard for the fact that they were of different religions, nationalities, ethnic groups, and even different politics. This second man was a Samaritan, and he helped because the man on the road was human. He helped because he was a fellow child of God. He helped because the man lying on the side of the road, regardless of race, class, clan, stripe, or type, was his brother. And the man who helped has been called the Good Samaritan.

The fundamental call and vocation of law enforcement officials, and indeed every one of us, is that of the Good Samaritan.

Here is where there is hope: The Good Samaritan in the parable of Jesus was not the last one.

There are Good Samaritans who are government officials in Memphis who, after assessing what happened, fired the offending officers, charged them with crimes against human life and dignity, and have committed to addressing systemic and cultural issues that created an environment in which this evil was enabled.

There are Good Samaritans doing what is necessary to radically reform the environment and culture of law enforcement—to create an atmosphere in which the dignity and worth of every human being is respected, protected, affirmed, and honored.

There are Good Samaritans in law enforcement, and other first responders, who often work while others sleep, laboring to protect and serve, at times risking their own lives for the neighbor they do not even know.

There are Good Samaritans, people of goodwill and human decency, who are peacefully protesting. There are Good Samaritans who are activists working tirelessly for the realization of communities and countries where there is truly, as the Pledge of Allegiance proclaims, “liberty and justice for all.”

While we grieve, we cannot give in or give up. Just throwing up our hands in despair is not an option lest we leave a brother, a sister, a sibling on the side of the road again. No, let more Good Samaritans arise so that Tyre Nichols’ death will not be in vain.

Please pray for Tyre’s family, the whole Memphis community, this nation, and world. But also pray for people to rise up like the Good Samaritan and work to create change so this never happens again.

And may the soul of Tyre, and the souls of all the departed, through the mercies of God, rest in peace and rise in glory. Amen.

The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry

Presiding Bishop and Primate

The Episcopal Church

On the web: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/…/a-pastoral-word-from…/

Lord in your mercy hear our prayers…

St. Barnabas Annual Meeting & BURRITOS This Sunday 1/29! – Mo. Marianne

Dear St. Barnabas Family:

Immediately following the service this Sunday we will hold our Annual Meeting. While it’s always important for you to be informed about and have a voice in the actions of our church, this year’s meeting is especially important since it’s the first in two years (and only the second in the last five years!).

To facilitate everyone’s attendance, we will have a streamlined service, a brief meeting lasting only about an hour, and then enjoy breakfast burritos from Home State!

A few things to know beforehand:

To make up for the missed elections, current vestry terms have been extended by one year. However, there is still room for anyone who would like to serve! Please contact me asap, or nominate yourself from the floor at Sunday’s meeting.

We will also elect a delegate and an alternate to represent St. Barnabas at Diocesan Convention this November. Again, if interested, please contact me asap, or nominate yourself from the floor at Sunday’s meeting.

In order to run or vote for the above offices, you must be a member of St. Barnabas. If you are not on the membership roll and would like to be, please make that known either before or at the very beginning of the meeting.

Any other questions or concerns let me know, and I hope to see you all Sunday. This is an important part of our democratic Episcopal polity, so show up and let your voice be heard!

With you in Christ’s service,

The Rev. V.R. Marianne Zahn, Priest-in-Charge

Jackie Robinson’s 104th Birthday Celebration – 1/31/2023

By The Pasadena Parks and Recreation at Jackie Robinson Community Center

The community is invited to celebrate the 104th birthday of famed baseball player and civil rights activist Jackie Robinson on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., at Jackie Robinson Community Center (JRCC), 1020 N. Fair Oaks Ave. Community members are encouraged to join City employees in wearing a Jackie Robinson baseball jersey or shirt or simply the number 42, Robinson’s jersey number.

The birthday celebration will include self-guided tours of Jackie Robinson memorabilia at JRCC. This exhibit is on loan from Pasadena’s Baseball Reliquary and features a Grays jersey, Negro League baseball items, historical photos, and a model of Ebbets Field. The event will also include a free showing of the movie “42” and a biographical documentary on Jackie Robinson. Birthday cake will be served beginning at 1 p.m.

For more information, please call (626) 744-7300.

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 1/22-1/29/2023 – Mo. Marianne

THIS SUNDAY, EPIPHANY IV with ANNUAL MEETING IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE SERVICE! This week’s service will be streamlined in order to make room for you to hear about and vote on important church business, then afterwards, enjoy breakfast burritos from Home State!

2023 is Saint Barnabas’ Centennial Year! Vestry Member Marco White has been hard at work making plans for our centennial celebration, “Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise.” Check out the webpage at Saint Barnabas 100-Year Centennial (1923 – 2023) – Still We Rise | Saint Barnabas 100 (stbarnabaspasadena.org) and please speak to Marco to be part of planning this once-in-a-lifetime event.

UPCOMING SERVICES

SUNDAY Feb 5, Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple (Candlemas), 9 AM Choral Eucharist. Candles will be blessed during the service and distributed to parishioners for use in your homes.

SUNDAY Feb 19, Feast of Absolom Jones (Transferred), 9 AM Choral Eucharist. Celebrate Black History Month by honoring America’s first black priest (ordained 1802).

Other Upcoming Events

WEDNESDAY FEB 1 & 15, 6:30 PM Bible Study New format! Our study (currently of Daniel) will now be accompanied by brief evening prayer inspired by Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, by Shane Claiborne. Join us for the lives and witness of saints of the church, peaceful prayer, discussion and snacks! All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

SATURDAY Feb 18, 10 AM City of Pasadena’s Black History/Black Future Month Parade. Watch the parade with your St. Barnabas family from right in front! Church will be open from 9:30 AM.

Sunday Service and Fellowship 1/22/2023

Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise!, 2023 Centennial yearlong celebration continued today with an AMAZING sermon from our Abbey who ALWAYS helps find our way back home. We were also blessed with Kathy joining us who has just moved to the neighborhood. She is really cool people, and we look forward to worshiping and fellowshipping with her again this Sunday and beyond! To top it off, our Women’s Guild provided DE-LISH-SHAS down-home country fried chicken for Fellowship. Thank you, ECW!

Union Station Serving Dinner 1/20/2023

EVERY 3RD FRIDAY the Saint Barnabas church family prepares and serves dinner to the residents of Union Station Adult Center, 825 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM, and last night was a continuation of our more than 15-year tradition. Lead by Sue and Jonathan, and joined by Debbie, Abbey and the Male Model, they served a FANTABULOUS fare of down-home country fried chicken, yams, and mixed veggies to some 50 residents. But most importantly, the Saint Barnabas church family manifested God’s greatness by spreading Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤 Please join us February 17th!

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 1/15-1/22/2023 – Mo. Marianne

THANK YOU to Joshua for his stirring reading from MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech last Sunday and to those who provided the special meal afterwards of chicken, waffles, (with fresh, melted butter!) fruit and hot cider. Your gracious hospitality brought a warm spirit of celebration to a cold, wet day!

PLEASE CONSIDER giving back to our St. Barnabas family by serving on the vestry. You will make important decisions that affect the community and grow skills in consensus-building and leadership. If you are interested or have questions, please speak to Mo. Marianne or Sr. Warden Althea Williams. A new vestry will be elected at the annual meeting next week.

UPCOMING SERVICES

NEXT SUNDAY JAN. 29 Epiphany IV, 9 AM Choral Eucharist. Please stay afterwards for the ANNUAL MEETING immediately following the service in the parish hall.

Other Upcoming Events

WEDNESDAY FEB 1 & 15, 6:30 PM Bible Study We will begin the new year with a new book: Daniel. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

SATURDAY Feb 18, 2023 City of Pasadena’s Black History/Black Future Month Parade. Participate in the parade and join us for special events TBA.

Martin Luther King Jr. at UCLA 4/27/1965

Direct from the archives of the University of California at Los Angeles, the university for the people, an amazing speech by MLK from Janss Steps. Enjoy!

Click here MLK at UCLA 4/27/1965

GO BRUINS!

A day on, not a day off – National Museum of African American History and Culture 1/16/2023

“I still believe that We Shall overcome! This faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on December 10, 1964

It took 15 years of persistence by civil rights activists for today’s holiday to be approved by the federal government and an additional 17 years for it to be recognized in all 50 states. It also is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage all Americans to volunteer and improve their communities.

At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, we are holding our annual Community Day for the People’s Holiday because, as Coretta Scott King said, “This is not a black holiday; it is a peoples’ holiday. And it is the young people of all races and religions who hold the keys to the fulfillment of his dream.”

Today, as we remember Dr. King, join us in exploring his inspirations and the indelible mark he made on those inspired by his faith, courage, and tenacity.

EXPLORE

Sunday Service and Fellowship 1/15/2023

Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise!, 2023 Centennial yearlong celebration continued today with a MLK birthday inspired Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship. Our very own Rev. Golie, sermon specialist extraordinaire, did it again! Rev Golie told the TRUTH! Check it out by clicking here Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary). Then in honor of MLK’s Southern roots, the Women’s Guild matriarchs served up a delicious Chicken and Waffles breakfast that put Roscoe’s to shame! YUMMMMMM! Thank you, Queens!

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 1/8-1/15/2023 – Mo. Marianne

“Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

UPCOMING SERVICES

THIS SUNDAY JAN. 15, Baptism of our Lord (Transferred) & MLK Sunday, 9 AM Choral Eucharist. We will observe Jesus’ baptism as well as honor The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr’s national holiday (Jan. 16).

NEXT SUNDAY JAN. 22, Epiphany III, 9 AM Choral Eucharist.

OTHER EVENTS

WEDNESDAY Jan. 18, 6:30 PM Bible Study We will begin the new year with a new book: Daniel. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

FRIDAY Jan.20, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 412 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena CA 91105. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

38th Annual KINGDOM DAY PARADE

MONDAY JANUARY 16, 2023 – 11AM

“Americas Biggest Birthday Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King”

PARADE THEME: “Making America The Last Best Hope of The World”

CORE-KINGDOM DAY PARADE ORGANIZATION ADRIAN DOVE, CHAIRMAN

For more information click here – Kingdom Day Parade

We reaffirm Who We Are

Our Mission Statement – Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

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!

WE PRAY UNIVERSALLY – WE THINK GLOBALLY – WE ACT LOCALLY

“WE UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT” – Whitney

We reacknowledged the Gabrielino-Tongva Nation

Our Land Acknowledgement Statement

We acknowledge the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Gabrielino-Tongva First Nation on which we are worshipping, praising and loving. We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the territory of the Gabrielino-Tongva Peoples, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. We thank them for their strength and resilience in protecting this land and aspire to uphold our responsibilities according to their proud tradition. To learn more and to support The Gabrielino-Tongva Nation please click here – http://gabrielino-tongva.com/

To The Gabrielino-Tongva Nation and all the Peoples of the Indigenous and Aboriginal Diaspora, we send Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Fuller Theological Seminary

WILLIAM E. PANNELL CENTER FOR BLACK CHURCH STUDIES | MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CELEBRATION

Jesus and the Disinherited: The Framework for the Dream

January 18–20, 2023 (In-Person and Virtual)

The theme for this year’s 2023 MLKJ Celebration is taken from Howard Thurman’s phenomenal work, Jesus and the Disinherited. Thurman teaches us what it means to find our voice in a world of oppression and be guided by an ethic of love. This book was known to be influential during Dr. King’s own journey throughout the Civil Rights Movement. The Pannell Center has dedicated three days to reflect on the legacy of Dr. King and our responsibility as a community to care for the marginalized and oppressed.

SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18

10:00–11:00 am (PT): Chapel with Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil

Location: Travis Auditorium/Hybrid

11:00am- 12:00pm (PT): Coffee and Conversation with Dr. David E. Goatley

Location: Travis Auditorium/Hybrid

12:00–1:00 pm (PT): Lecture with Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil

Location: Payton 101/Hybrid

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19

12:00–1:30 pm (PT) “The Children of the Disinherited” (Partnership with Fuller Youth Institute)

Location: Payton 102/Hybrid

Panel Discussion: In the book, Jesus and the Disinherited, Howard Thurman writes, “The children of the disinherited live a restricted childhood.” How do we encourage and support our children as they face the struggles of oppression?

Moderator:

Dr. Edgar “Trey” Clark, Assistant Professor of Preaching

Panelist:

Dr. Sarah Farmer, Affiliate Assistant Professor of Youth, Family, and Culture
Ahren Samuel Martinez, Associate Director of Children, Youth and Family Programming at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, CA
Will Lewis, Fuller Youth Institute Marketing Manager
Dr. Cedric Williams, Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy

6:30–8:30 pm (PT) Brehm Art Installation: Blk Halos by Dea Jenkins – Register Here

Location: 509 E Walnut Pasadena, CA 91101

Originally conceived and presented by Dea Jenkins as a performance art piece in 2019, Blk Halos is an expanded exploration of contemporary Black identity built on and in honor of Black ancestral legacy. Blk Halos is an amalgamation of textile art, photography, poetry, and song. In its current form, the project seeks to honor contemporary cultural thought leaders like Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Willie Jennings, while also weaving ancestral thought and creative practices into new forms. Through the acquisition and creative exploration of natural materials relevant to the African diaspora’s broad-reaching history, Blk Halos wrestles with the question Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. posed over 70 years ago: Where do we go from here? “Here” implied a racism-tinged reality for Dr. King and his contemporaries. In the 21st century, we are still grappling with similar, though distinct, challenges as we struggle as a nation to acknowledge and heal from our collective history.

Rather than attempt to proffer diluted solutions, Blk Halos aims to honor the rich cultural heritage of Black America, to offer a space of both lament and celebration for people of color, and to invite the broader public into healing dialogue and collaborative making.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 20

10:00–11:30 am (PT) Pannell Center Morning Mixer

The Pannell Center is hosting a morning mixer for its students, alumni, and supporters. Stop by the new location for the Pannell Center in the center of campus and enjoy food, coffee and fellowship.

12:00-1:30 pm (PT) “The Hounds of Hell in Context” – Ethnic Centers Conversation

Location: Payton 101/Hybrid

Howard Thurman focused his career on challenging what he called the “hounds of hell”―the ways in which fear, deception, and hatred so often dogged the steps of Black people, the marginalized, and disinherited peoples of the world. Listen and join the conversation amongst all of the Ethnic Center Academic Deans as we unpack Thurman’s “hounds of hell” in their context.

4:00- 7pm (PT) Gospel Concert featuring DOE

Location: Arol Burns Mall on Fuller’s Pasadena Campus/Hybrid

For more information click here 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Fuller Theological Seminary

41st Annual Pasadena Black History (and Future) Parade & Festival Saturday 2/18/2023

One of Southern California’s largest and longest-running Black history parades begins at 10 a.m. at Fair Oaks Avenue and Figueroa Drive and ends at Robinson Park, 1081 N. Fair Oaks Ave. Stay and enjoy the festival at Robinson Park, which runs until 4 p.m. The festival features live bands, dance performances, community booths, guest speakers, food for purchase, and tons of fun! Robinson Park

For more information click here 41st Annual Pasadena Black History (and Future) Parade & Festival

Power from Chris Webb – The Gate

Click here – Saint Barnabas on Facebook – The Gate by Chris Webb

“Church without applying what you learned, is worthless” – Chris Webb

Enjoy more from Chris Webb (https://www.chriswebbspeaks.com/) – Behind The Camera, On Stage, The Community, and Creative Work

To Brotha Webb we send Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

Sunday Service and Fellowship 1/8/2023

Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise!, 2023 Centennial Year continued today with Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship. We were honored to host a very special guest, Tenor Soloist Daniel Saunders who blessed us with Surge Illuminare, Plainsong Chant, and then Mo. Marianne’s sermon today was EL FUEGO! Check it out by clicking here Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary).

The War We Must Win By UCLA Chancellor Gene Block | January 5, 2023

The new UCLA Initiative to Study Hate is tackling an audacious mission: eradicating bigotry and discrimination from American life.

Tragically, and highly disturbingly, hatred directed toward vulnerable groups is on the rise in the United States.

According to data published by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, the number of hate crimes in the U.S. recently hit record highs, with Asians, Blacks, Latinos, Jews and members of the LGBTQ community among the most frequent targets of crimes. We see evidence of this troubling trend in the news — less than two months ago, we were shocked to learn of the horrific Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs — and all too often, we feel the effects of this hatred in our own lives.

One of the features in this issue of the magazine focuses on a new interdisciplinary initiative that seeks to help scholars better understand and combat the virus of hate infecting American culture. The UCLA Initiative to Study Hate, spearheaded by historian David Myers and backed by a $3 million gift from an anonymous donor, supports 23 research projects that examine different aspects of the topic. The projects involve researchers from across campus and cover an array of subjects, including the mechanisms in the brain that lead to dehumanization of others, social media hate speech and its effects on children, the role of misinformation in spreading hate, discrimination against individuals with disabilities, hatred directed toward people experiencing homelessness, and more.

I am grateful that our scholars are taking on this issue — not just because of its urgency, but also because UCLA is one of only a few universities that can bring together such a diverse set of researchers to tackle the subject. Our depth and breadth of academic expertise, commitment to collaboration across disciplines, and public orientation all contribute to our capacity to effectively study group hate and develop solutions that will help society counter it.

Hatred is not the only human experience that UCLA scholars are looking into.

The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, established in 2019 as a multidisciplinary program dedicated to researching kindness, might initially seem to offer a striking contrast to the study of group hate. However, according to the institute’s director, evolutionary anthropologist Daniel Fessler, the spread of both phenomena may be closely linked to social exposure. Professor Fessler’s research suggests that our minds contain mechanisms sharpened by natural selection that lead us to adjust our behavior to match the behavior of those around us — whether that’s performing acts of kindness or participating in hateful and bigoted acts.

What this means is that both hatred and kindness may be, in essence, contagious. While the Initiative to Study Hate will soon tell us much more about how and why hatred manifests in society, this finding alone gives me hope. It tells us that while hate surely exists in the world, if we are mindful, we can decide whether we choose to spread hatred — or to spread kindness instead.

GO BRUINS!

California African American Museum – King Day 1/16/2023

California African American Museum – King Day 2023

Monday, January 16, 2023

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Come together to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrate the return of CAAM’s in-person King Day festivities! This year’s theme is “MLK: A Legacy of Service” and the program includes a performance by the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, the King Study Group, family activities provided by the Los Angeles Public Library, food trucks, and more! Full schedule coming soon.

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 1/1-1/8/2023 – Mo. Marianne

SPECIAL THANKS to all those who participated in our holiday services, especially the festive Christmas Eve celebration which saw our attendance from last year almost tripled. Whether you brought along family and friends, helped with services and hospitality, or warmly welcomed visitors, you showed forth the love of Jesus Christ as a light to all the world!

UPCOMING SERVICES

THIS SUNDAY JAN. 8, The Feast of the Epiphany (Transferred) 9 AM Choral Eucharist. Christmastide officially ends as we hear the story of the wise men’s visit to the newborn Christ child. Sarah Moore sing’s Elizabeth Poston’s “Jesus Christ the Apple Tree,” and guest vocalist Daniel Saunders sings the plainsong chant “Arise, shine for your light has come.”

NEXT SUNDAY JAN. 15, Baptism of our Lord (Transferred) & MLK Sunday, 9 AM Choral Eucharist. We will observe Jesus’ baptism as well as honor The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr’s national holiday (Jan. 16). The choir sings William Dawson’s arrangement of “Ain’a That Good News.”

OTHER EVENTS

Bishop Michael Curry, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop to keynote Jan. 15 ‘Power of Love’ service honoring legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – 1/1/2023

Click here Power of Love service

From our Siblings in Christ, Holy Family Episcopal Church in Inglewood – Black Struggle Series – The Struggle of Black Americans in the U.S.A. – Three Sermons – by Rev. Warner Traynham – 1/1/2023

Click here Black Struggle Series (holyfaithinglewood.org)

Presiding bishop shares 2022 Christmas message: ‘Love always’ (Posted Dec 22, 2022) – 1/1/2023

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop has released his Christmas message for 2022. In the message, which was released with an accompanying video, hey says, “Love came down at Christmas. Love always, because love is the way. It is the way that Jesus taught us.”

“Love came down at Christmas and so let this Christmas be a moment of rededication to the work of love in the world.”

New Year’s Day & Saint Barnabas 100-Year Centennial Sunday Service and Fellowship 1/1/2023

New Year’s Day & Saint Barnabas 100-Year Centennial Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship today was a great start to a very special new year with Roberto preaching with passion! 2023 marks the 100th year of Love, Saint Barnabas Style surviving and thriving! Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise!

Please enjoy the Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary).

Saint Barnabas Centennial Year (1923-2023) – 1/1/2023

Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise!

December 2022 Blog

Christmas Sunday Service and Fellowship 12/25/2022

Happy Birthday to Love Personified in the form of Jesus Christ! Christmas Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship today was highlighted by Marco sharing why he sits in the same pew for 59 years and running, Love, Saint Barnabas Style!

Please enjoy the Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary).

You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care) on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

Christmas Eve Service and Fellowship 12/24/2022

It was a packed house for Christmas Eve Service and Fellowship. Carols by The Sarah Moore “Old Fashioned Carolers,” and guest soloist Bernice Brightbill was an absolute sensational program of Christmas cheer! And it was topped off with a Champagne reception in parish hall.

Please enjoy Christmas Eve Service and Fellowship on Facebook Live (no login necessary).

As if that wasn’t enough, we were honored to be joined by visitors (and hopefully new church family members) from 4,132 miles away in French Polynesia, the Leyat family! It was our distinct honor and personal pleasure to share Christmas Eve with your beautiful family! To you we send Love, Saint Barnabas Style! 🖤

And earlier we were visited by the newest member of the Saint Barnabas Church Family, Violet’s Grand Son, Terrence. The most beautiful baby in all of creation!

OH WHAT A TIME WE HAD CHRISTMAS EVE!

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 12/18-1/1/2023 – Mo. Marianne

SATURDAY Dec. 24, 5:30/6 PM Christmas Eve Service. Join us at 5:30 for a special program of carols offered by Sarah Moore’s “Old Fashioned Carolers,” as well as guest soloist Bernice Brightbill with Eucharistic service to follow at 6 pm. Champagne reception in parish hall to follow!

THANK YOU to all who pledged to our 2023 Stewardship Season! It is only with your generosity and commitment that God’s work in the world is accomplished!

THANK YOU ALSO to all those who submitted bids for our wine auction, especially JOSHUA BECKETT who submitted the winning bid of $150! Josh’s generosity goes towards our gift card program to support local community outreach at Union Station and Friends InDeed. Half of our $700 goal was already distributed (Thanks to Jonathan Williams for implementing this). Please consider making a donation to help us make up the rest.

PLEASE HELP SATURDAY Dec. 24, 9 AM – Noon Greening of the Church. Please come help prepare the sanctuary for the festive Christmas Eve celebration later that day. You may also bring or drop off greenery or other seasonal foliage.

→PLEASE ALSO HELP by bringing or dropping off food or drink items for our post-service reception, if you are able. So far, we have quiche, pastries, champagne and non-alc. sparklers.

UPCOMING SERVICES

NEXT TWO SUNDAYS: Christmas Day Dec. 25, Holy Name Jan. 1, 10 AM Services. Join us for simple, casual services with carols, brief reflection, and Eucharist.

SUNDAY JAN. 8, The Feast of the Epiphany (Transferred) 9 AM Choral Eucharist. Christmastide officially ends as we hear the story of the wise men’s visit to the newborn Christ child.

OTHER EVENTS

WEDNESDAY Jan. 18, 6:30 PM Bible Study (note no meeting Jan.4) We will begin the new year with a new book: Daniel. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

Saint Barnabas Wine Auction

WE HAVE A WINNER!!

THANKS TO JOSHUA BECKETT who submitted the winning bid of $100!

Special thanks to everyone who submitted bids, especially Fr. Carlos Mojicah, who came very close 😄

Josh’s generosity goes to support our gift card program to support local community outreach at Union Station and Friends InDeed. Please consider making a donation to help us meet the rest of our $700 goal!

Sunday Service and Fellowship 12/18/2022

The Forth Sunday of Advent Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship today was AMZING highlighted by another inspirational sermon from Rev. Golie! Rev. Golie is the truth!

Brother Jonathan also remined us that the LOVE expressed towards the Saint Barnabas Church Family mission of being a blessing to all others, in the form of 2023 Pledges of Time, Talent and Treasure is very much appreciated! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! If you haven’t submitted your 2023 Pledge Card, please do so as soon as possible so we can build our 2023 Budget. Thanks again!

Please enjoy the Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary).

You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care) on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

Union Station Serving Dinner 12/16/2022

EVERY 3RD FRIDAY the Saint Barnabas church family prepares and serves dinner to the residents of Union Station Adult Center, 825 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM, and last night was a continuation of our more than 15-year tradition. Lead by Sue and Jonathan, and joined by Marco, they served a touch of LatinX inspired fare of Tamales, Spanish Rice, Frijoles, Ensalada Verde Mixta, Chips, Salsa and Torta. But most importantly as per usual, the Saint Barnabas church family manifested God’s greatness by spreading Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤 Please join us January 20th!

WINE AUCTION UPDATE: MOST RECENT BID: $70

Remember to get your bids in by 5 pm this Saturday, Dec. 17, 5 pm!

More info: We are auctioning off a 2020 Daou Reserve Solomon Hills (Santa Maria) Pinot Noir (valued at $90) to raise funds for our annual gift card program to support local community outreach at Union Station and Friends InDeed. Our goal this year is $700 for 14 gift cards given to persons and families in need. If you were going to give anyway, why not try your hand at the winning bid for a special wine to enjoy with a holiday meal, give as a gift, or set aside for a future treat? To place your bid (or find out the current bid), either email Mo. Marianne at vrmzahn@gmail.com or sign the sheet in the back of the church. All bids must be in before 5 pm, Sat, Dec. 17, and the wining bidder will be named at the Dec. 18 service. Thanks for your generosity and good luck!

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 12/11-12/18/2022 – Mo. Marianne

THANK YOU to all who pledged to our 2023 Stewardship Season! It is only with your generosity and commitment that God’s work in the world is accomplished!

THANK YOU ALSO to Sue Daniels for providing last week’s delicious and fun cheese tasting!

WINE AUCTION: Current bid $55.We are auctioning off a 2020 Daou Reserve Solomon Hills (Santa Maria) Pinot Noir (valued at $90) to raise funds for our annual gift card program to support local community outreach at Union Station and Friends InDeed. Our goal this year is $700 for 14 gift cards given to persons and families in need. If you were going to give anyway, why not try your hand at the winning bid for a special wine to enjoy with a holiday meal, give as a gift, or set aside for a future treat? To place your bid (or find out the current bid), either email Mo. Marianne at vrmzahn@gmail.com or sign the sheet in the back of the church. All bids must be in before 5 pm, Sat, Dec. 17, and the wining bidder will be named at the Dec. 18 service. Thanks for your generosity and good luck!

UPCOMING SERVICES

THIS SUNDAY: ADVENT IV CHORAL EUCHARIST 9 AM We light the last candle on the Advent wreath, readying us to conclude the final week of our preparatory season before we welcome Emmanuel, the Christ child, into the world at Christmas.

SATURDAY Dec. 24, 5:30/6 PM Christmas Eve Service. Join us at 5:30 for a special program of carols offered by Sarah Moore’s “Old Fashioned Carolers” with Eucharistic service beginning at 6 pm.

→FOLLOWING TWO SUNDAYS: Christmas Day Dec. 25, Holy Name Jan. 1, 10 AM Services. Join us for simple, casual services with carols and Eucharist.

OTHER EVENTS

FRIDAY Dec. 16, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 412 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena CA 91105. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

WEDNESDAY Dec. 21, 6:30 PM Bible Study Continuing with the Gospel of Mark. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

SATURDAY Dec. 24, 9 AM – Noon Greening of the Church. Please come help prepare the sanctuary for the festive Christmas Eve celebration later that day.

Sunday Service and Fellowship 12/11/2022

The Third Sunday of Advent Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship today was BREATHTAKING highlighted by a powerful sermon from Bortha Joshua, and he SANG for us as well! Joshua’s sermons are what Love, Saint Barnabas style sounds like.

Please enjoy the Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary).

You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care) on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 12/4-12/11/2022 – Mo. Marianne

The 2023 Stewardship Season has concluded, but you still have a chance to pledge before next year’s budget is drafted. If you haven’t already done so, please fill out a pledge card (in the back of the church) or visit stbarnabaspasadena.org/give and help support St. Barnabas’ mission this coming year! Envelopes are available from Jonathan on Sundays, or they will be mailed to you if you are unable to pick them up.

THIS SUNDAY: ADVENT III GAUDETE We light the third, rose-colored candle on the Advent wreath (for “gaudete,” Latin for “rejoice,”) symbolizing a celebratory break in the quiet of the preparatory season before we welcome Emmanuel, the Christ child, into the world at Christmas.

→ALSO: CHEESE RECEPTION Prize-winning Wisconsin cheeses will be available for tasting at the post-service coffee hour, courtesy of vestry and choir member Sue Daniels. Enjoy!

UPCOMING EVENTS

WEDNESDAY Dec. 21, 6:30 PM Bible Study Continuing with the Gospel of Mark. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

SATURDAY Dec. 24, 9 AM – Noon Greening of the Church. Please come help prepare the sanctuary for the festive Christmas Eve celebration later that day.

November 2022 Blog

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 11/27-12/4/2022 – Mo. Marianne

WINE AUCTION: We are auctioning off a 2020 Daou Reserve Solomon Hills (Santa Maria) Pinot Noir (valued at $90) to raise funds for our annual gift card program to support local community outreach at Union Station and Friends InDeed. Our goal this year is $700 for 14 gift cards given to persons and families in need. If you were going to give anyway, why not try your hand at the winning bid for a special wine to enjoy with a holiday meal, give as a gift, or set aside for a future treat? To place your bid (or find out the current bid—currently $50), either email Mo. Marianne at vrmzahn@gmail.com or sign the sheet in the back of the church. All bids must be in before 5 pm, Sat, Dec. 17, and the wining bidder will be named at the Dec. 18 service. Thanks for your generosity and good luck!

LAST SUNDAY: THANK YOU to all who participated in the beautiful Advent I service, and special thanks for those who provided the festive coffee hour with quiche, pumpkin bread and hot mulled cider!😋

THIS SUNDAY: ADVENT II We light the second candle on the Advent wreath as we continue the journey to prepare to welcome Emmanuel, the Christ child, into the world at Christmas.

UPCOMING EVENTS

WEDNESDAY Dec. 7, 6:30 PM Bible Study Continuing with the Gospel of Mark. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

Enjoy November Replays of Sunday Morning Services on Facebook Live

Enjoy October Sunday Morning Services replays on Facebook Live (no login necessary) and read along with the programs: Sunday Morning Service 11/6 / program, Sunday Morning Service 11/13 / program, Sunday Morning Service 11/20 / program, and Sunday Morning Service 11/27 / program.

Giving Tuesday/Cyber Monday/Black Friday UHG!

Whether it’s Giving Tuesday, Cyber Monday or Black Friday, your gift to The Saint Barnabas Church Family supports the people and programs that bring the Episcopal branch of The Jesus Movement to the communities of Northwest Pasadena and West Altadena. Christ is made the sure foundation. Christ the head and cornerstone. Chosen of the Lord and precious, Binding all the Church in one. We ask you to consider making a gift to support the work of our church family today.

THANK YOU!

Make Your Gift Today

You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care) on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

Sunday Service and Fellowship 11/20/2022

The First Sunday of Advent Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship today was an Alleluia God celebration signing “Soon and Very Soon” and another AMAZING sermon from Bortha Joshua preaching on the centrifugal force of God’s Love (LOVE, Saint Barnabas style).

Please enjoy the Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary) and read along with the program.

You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care) on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 11/20-11/27/2022 – Mo. Marianne

WINE AUCTION: We are auctioning off a 2020 Daou Reserve Solomon Hills (Santa Maria) Pinot Noir (valued at $90) to raise funds for our annual gift card program to support local community outreach at Union Station and Friends InDeed. Our goal this year is $700 for 14 gift cards given to persons and families in need. If you were going to give anyway, why not try your hand at the winning bid for a special wine to enjoy with a holiday meal, give as a gift, or set aside for a future treat? To place your bid (or find out the current bid), either email Mo. Marianne at vrmzahn@gmail.com or sign the sheet in the back of the church. All bids must be in before 5 pm, Sat, Dec. 17, and the wining bidder will be named at the Dec. 18 service. Thanks for your generosity and good luck!

LAST SUNDAY: THANKS TO EVERYONE who participated in our special Harvest celebration! We enjoyed a festive, fall meal and collected lots of donations for the Union Station food bank.

THIS SUNDAY: Nov. 27, 9 AM ADVENT I We light the Advent wreath as we begin the journey to prepare to welcome Emmanuel, the Christ child, into the world at Christmas.

UPCOMING EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 7, 6:30 PM Bible Study Continuing with the Gospel of Mark. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

St. Barnabas Wine Auction Holiday Fundraiser!

We are auctioning off this 2020 Daou Reserve Solomon Hills (Santa Maria) Pinot Noir (valued at $90) to raise funds for our annual gift card program to support local community outreach at Union Station, Friends InDeed and the Jackie Robinson Center. Our goal this year is $700 for 14 gift cards given to persons and families in need. If you were going to give anyway, why not try your hand at the winning bid for a special wine to enjoy with a holiday meal, give as a gift, or set aside for a future treat? (More info about the wine below.)

To place your bid (or find out the current bid), either reply to this email (vrmzahn@gmail.com) or sign the sheet in the back of the church. Bidding is open now and starts at $15. All bids must be in before 5 pm, Sat, Dec. 17, and the wining bidder will be named at the Dec. 18 service.

Thanks for your generosity and good luck!

This limited-edition Pinot Noir comes exclusively from the famed Solomon Hills Vineyard, the westernmost vineyard in the Santa Maria Valley, just 11 miles from the Pacific Ocean. In 2020, a blockbuster vintage only elevated this pedigree, producing a wine that delivers deep concentration with balance and elegance. Exquisite flavors of cola, cherry, spice and raspberry showcase the vineyard’s cool-climate terroir. The palate is backed with great structure and savoriness, all leading to a mouth-filling experience through the finish.

Sunday Service and Fellowship 11/20/2022

Harvest Thanksgiving Day Celebration Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship today was a celebration of the glorious diversity of the Saint Barnabas Church Family and our Afro-Caribbean roots. We paid homage to the Costa Rican Harvest celebration by wearing bright celebratory colors and bringing our harvest to trade and share with our church family and our extended Northwest Pasadena/West Altadena community, via Friends Indeed, Union Station and our Free Pantry. But wait, the Sermon of Daniel F. Doyle, M.A. was EPIC too! Reminding us to “come as you are” to the Lord and to the Saint Barnabas Church Family. No judgement, no conditions.

Please enjoy the Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary) and read along with the program.

You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care) on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

Union Station Serving Dinner 11/18/2022

EVERY 3RD FRIDAY the Saint Barnabas church family prepares and serves dinner to the residents of Union Station Adult Center, 825 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM, and last night was a continuation of our more than 15-year tradition. Lead by Silvia, Sue and Jonathan, joined by Debbie, Sandra, Abbey, and Marco, they served a touch of soul baked ham, collard greens, mac-n cheese, dinner roll and chocolate cake. But most importantly, the Saint Barnabas church family manifested God’s greatness by spreading Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤 Please join us December 16th!

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 11/13-11/20/2022 – Mo. Marianne

LAST SUNDAY: We blessed everyone’s pledges at our Commissioning service, asking God to help us fulfill our commitments of time, talent and treasure to the St. Barnabas family.

➡️THIS SUNDAY: HARVEST SUNDAY/CHRIST THE KING. 10 AM SERVICE! TROPICAL/COLORFUL CLOTHING ENCOURAGED! Please bring gifts you’ve brought from God’s abundance to place at the altar, either before the service or during the offertory. You may also bring food to share for the potluck afterwards and also food to be donated.

NEXT SUNDAY: Nov. 27, ADVENT I Begin the journey of Advent with us as we prepare to welcome Emmanuel, the Christ child, into the world at Christmas.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 7, 6:30 PM Bible Study Continuing with the Gospel of Mark. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

Saint Barnabas Facebook Re-Launch

Check-out Saint Barnabas Facebook for tons of really cool stuff!

Sunday Service and Fellowship 11/13/2022

Stewardship Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship was simply AWESOME, highlighted by Rev. Golie’s preaching “We ain’t no half Christians” and the LOVE expressed towards the Saint Barnabas Church Family mission of being a blessing to all others, in the form of 2023 Pledges of Time, Talent and Treasure! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! If you haven’t submitted your 2023 Pledge Card, please do so as soon as possible so we can build our 2023 Budget. Thanks again!

Please enjoy the Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary) and read along with the program.

You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care) on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 11/6-11/13/2022 – Mo. Marianne

We GIVE THANKS for the peaceful and fair elections this week. Please continue to pray for peace as vote counts continue in the days ahead, and for the safety especially of election officials and family members who have been threatened with, and in some cases victims of, violence.

The 2023 Stewardship Season formally concludes this Sunday when pledge cards will be collected and blessed at the service, but you may turn in a new or revised pledge any time during the year! Envelopes are available from Jonathan on Sundays, or they will be mailed to you if you are unable to pick them up.

LAST SUNDAY: THANK YOU to all who participated in the beautiful Feast of All Saints & Souls service, especially Sarah Moore for the stirring anthem “Steal Away,” sensitively accompanied by Paul Kaufman, which moved many to tears.

TODAY: COMMISSIONING SUNDAY. Pledges of time, talent and treasure will be collected and blessed during the offering. After church, VESTRY MEETING All are welcome to attend and have a voice in the important business of the church.

NEXT SUNDAY: Nov. 20, HARVEST SUNDAY 10 AM SERVICE! Join us for a celebration of God’s abundance as we bless the bounty of the earth. We will share a meal afterwards and you may also bring food to be donated.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16, NOTE NEW DAY! 6:30 PM Bible Study Continuing with the Gospel of Mark. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

FRIDAY Nov. 18, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 412 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena CA 91105. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

Happy Veterans Day Friday November 11, 2022

Happy Veterans Day to ALL of our Veteran Heroes and Sheroes, uniformed and non-uniformed, military and movements, who fought and sacrificed for our Nation, our Human Rights, our Civil Rights, our Voting Rights, our Rights to Self-Determination, our Equal Rights, our Religious Rights, and our FREEDOM

Thank you Vets!

To ALL Veteran Heroes and Sheroes, uniformed and non-uniformed, military and movements, we send Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

And to ALL those manifesting His greatness with a PASSION to advocate for and empower the communities of the disenfranchised, the marginalized, the minoritized, the tokenized, the voiceless, the invisible, and the underrepresented, we say FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT!

AMPLIFY YOUR VOICE – VOTE!!!

St Barnabas 2022 Election Goal: 100% Participation!!! – WeVote | Saint Barnabas (stbarnabaspasadena.org)

Voting Guide, Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles: click here

Sunday Service and Fellowship 11/6/2022

All Saints and All Souls Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship was simply BREATHTAKING, highlighted by paying homage to our Saints and our Transitioned Ancestors. Please enjoy the Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary) and read along with the program.

You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care) on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

The Saint Barnabas Church Family Hall of Fame

The Saint Barnabas Church Family Hall of Fame honors the Founding Eight Matriarchs including Mrs. Georgia Weatherton, Mrs. Ellensteen Bevans, and Mrs. Rosebud Mims, Rev. W. Alfred Wilkins, Rev. Alfred E. Norman, Rev. Jesse D. Moses II, Rev. Alfred E. Norman (2nd term), Rev. Ivor Ottley, Rev. Patricia Bennett, Rev. John M. Larson, Rev. Antony Glenn Miller, Rev. Dr. John Goldingay, Rev. Mark Bradshaw, and Rev. V.R. Marianne Zahn, comprising nineteen servant leaders, dozens of lay leaders and all of the Transitioned Ancestors of God’s Home Church, Saint Barnabas Pasadena.

Enjoy October Replays of Sunday Morning Services on Facebook Live

Enjoy October Sunday Morning Services replays on Facebook Live (no login necessary) and read along with the programs: Sunday Morning Service 10/30 / program, Sunday Morning Service 10/23 / program, Sunday Morning Service program 10/16, Sunday Morning Service program 10/9, and Sunday Morning Service program 10/2.

Our Land Acknowledgement Statement

We acknowledge the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Gabrielino-Tongva First Nation on which we are worshipping, praising and loving. We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the territory of the Gabrielino-Tongva Peoples, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations. We thank them for their strength and resilience in protecting this land and aspire to uphold our responsibilities according to their proud tradition. To learn more and to support The Gabrielino-Tongva Nation please click here – http://gabrielino-tongva.com/

To The Gabrielino-Tongva Nation and all the Peoples of the Indigenous and Aboriginal Diaspora, we send Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

October 2022 Blog

Sunday Service and Fellowship 10/30/2022

What an AMAZING Sunday Morning Service and Fellowship, highlighted by Rev. Golie’s as the officiant and Brotha Joshua’s sermon reminding that “This is what Salvation looks like. This is why I came!” (“I love it when Joshua sings” – Kitty)

Please enjoy the Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary) and read along with the program

You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care) on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 10/30-11/6/2022 – Mo. Marianne

ONGOING: The 2023 Stewardship Season is underway! Remember to prayerfully discern not only how you can support St. Barnabas financially, but also with your presence and service to the parish and wider community. Pledge cards are available in the back of the church and will be collected and blessed at the Nov. 13 service.

THIS SUNDAY Nov. 6, Feast of All Saints & Souls A beautiful, solemn service where we honor the saints of the church and all those loved ones who have gone before us. Please email the names of those you wish to be remembered to Mo. Marianne at vrmzahn@gmail.com.

NEXT SUNDAY, Nov. 13 COMMISSIONING SUNDAY. Pledges of time, talent and treasure will be collected and blessed during the offering. After church, VESTRY MEETING All are welcome to attend and have a voice in the important business of the church.

UPCOMING:

SUNDAY, Nov. 20, HARVEST SUNDAY 10 AM SERVICE! Join us for a celebration of God’s abundance as we bless the bounty of the earth. We will share a meal afterwards and you may also bring food to be donated to Union Station or the pantry outside the church.

The Episcopal News Update – A weekly newsletter serving the Diocese of Los Angeles – 10/30/2022 (Thx Jonathan)

Click diocesela.org/episcopal-news for the Episcopal News Update

Go see Till the movie this weekend. The story of Mrs. Mamie Till-Mobley manifesting God’s greatness as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.

Click HERE for the official trailer

There is NO violence on any black body in the movie, just God’s love and joy.

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 10/23-10/30/2022 – Mo. Marianne

LAST SUNDAY: Vestry member Susan Daniels spoke about the need to be kind to our brother and sister parishioners and visitors with our words and actions, and as a reminder to ask forgiveness when we fall short had us sing together, “If I have wounded any soul today…dear Lord, forgive!” (from the LEVAS hymn, #176).

NEXT SUNDAY Nov. 6, Feast of All Saints & Souls A beautiful, solemn service where we honor the saints of the church and all those loved ones who have gone before us. Please add the names of those you wish to be remembered to the list in the back of the church, or email to Mo. Marianne at vrmzahn@gmail.com.

UPCOMING:

SUNDAY, Nov. 13 COMMISSIONING SUNDAY. Pledges of time, talent and treasure will be collected and blessed during the offering. After church, VESTRY MEETING All are welcome to attend and have a voice in the important business of the church.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16, NOTE NEW DAY! 6:30 PM Bible Study (NO MEETING NOV. 2) Continuing with the Gospel of Mark. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

Sunday Service and Fellowship 10/23/2022

What a wonderful Sunday M o r n i n g Service and Fellowship, highlighted by Mo. Marianne’s sermon reminding us, don’t act a jerk AND ask you mercy when we do, Gil & Counrtney hosting fellowship (especially Courtney’s Grandmother’s cinnamon pastries YUMMMM), and our very special guests Sheryl and Meg. It was a real pleasure to meet you and we look forward to seeing you again SOON. Meanwhile you are in our prayers. Love, Saint Barnabas Style!

Please enjoy the Sunday Morning Service on Facebook Live (no login necessary) and read along with the program

You are hereby formally, officially and cordially invited to please join us (in-person, online, offline and/or Pastoral Care) on our continuing journey of Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

Beyond Black and White: African American Art & Iconography – A Washington National Cathedral Event (Thx Sue)

Art permeates our lives in museums, our homes, and the public square. The images and stories artists capture tell us of truth, history, divinity, beauty, and pain. In public spaces, how and what we choose to create and show has lasting impacts in our communities. Join Washington National Cathedral for an evening with artists, historians, and leaders for a discussion about art and the impact of imagery of African Americans and African American culture. This evening forum will be moderated by Cathedral Canon Theologian The Rev. Kelly Brown Douglas, Kevin Young, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Dr. Kirk Savage, art historian and professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

About the Cathedral’s Light in the Darkness Windows Replacement Project

In 2015 then-dean Gary Hall called for the removal of two stained-glass windows in the Cathedral – those to Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson. What followed was a multi-year process to examine, remove and reimagine these windows. In September 2021, the Cathedral announced that acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall and poet Elizabeth Alexander had agreed to create new windows and poetry, respectively, for the bay that previously held these two windows. Over the next two years as we await installation of the new windows, the Cathedral is embarking on public programming and education opportunities around the Light in the Darkness Windows Replacement Project. Learn more about the project and activities at cathedral.org/windows.

Get tickets to the in-person event here.

Union Station Serving Dinner 10/21/2022

EVERY 3RD FRIDAY the Saint Barnabas church family prepares and serves dinner to the residents of Union Station Adult Center, 825 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104 from 6:00 – 8:30 PM, and last night was a continuation of our more than 15-year tradition. Lead by Jonathan and Sue, joined by Abbey and Marco, they served a scrumptious baked chicken, marinated with Sweet Baby Rays sauce w touch Cab, Silver Queen corn, mixed green salad with cherry tomatoes, King’s Hawaiian rolls and of course Halloween cupcakes and cookies. But most importantly, the Saint Barnabas church family manifested God’s greatness by being a blessing to others. Please join us November 18th!

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 10/16-10/23/2022 – Mo. Marianne

SPECIAL AWARDS were given on Sunday to Althea Williams, Violet Zacarias, Susan Daniels and John Johansen for their extraordinary gifts of time, talent and treasure to keep St. Barnabas operating and ministering to the community during the covid pandemic. Their efforts exemplify faithful service to and stewardship for the community and the generations that will come after. Well done, good and faithful servants!

THANKS to those who attended the Stewardship & Budget Forum last Sunday, and special thanks to Jonathan Williams, St. Barnabas’ intrepid treasurer, for the presentation! Several suggestions were made for capital outlays and other projects, as well as for potential revenue sources. These will be collected and voted on during the annual meeting next January.

The 2023 Stewardship Season is underway! Remember to prayerfully discern not only how you can support St. Barnabas financially, but also with your presence and service to the parish and wider community. Pledge cards are available in the back of the church and will be collected and blessed at the Nov. 13 service.

TODAY Oct. 23 VESTRY MEETING All are welcome to attend and have a voice in the important business of the church.

WEDS, Nov. 2, 16, NOTE NEW DAY! 6:30 PM Bible Study Continuing with the Gospel of Mark. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

FRIDAY Oct. 21, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 412 S. Raymond Ave. Pasadena CA 91105 [Address correction]. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

SUNDAY Nov. 6, Feast of All Saints & Souls A beautiful, solemn service where we honor the saints of the church and all those loved ones who have gone before us. Please add the names of those you wish to be remembered to the list in the back of the church, or email to Mo. Marianne at vrmzahn@gmail.com.

ColoradoBoulevard.net article – St. Barnabas Church: A Surprising Story

St. Barnabas Church: A Surprising Story

A church on a street

St. Barnabas in Pasadena (Photo – Brian Biery)

If you drive up Fair Oaks Ave. at 35 MPH you will probably miss the modest, adobe-style church on the east side of the street, wedged in between the Jackie Robinson Center and the recently installed climbing gym.

By Brian Biery

Unlike many of the churches in downtown Pasadena, St. Barnabas Church does not feature European architecture, nor an enormous sanctuary, and yet it has provided an essential spiritual home for the community for nearly a century.

Few people in the area are aware of the church’s important and unique history, which must be viewed from a societal level. The diaspora known as ‘The Great Migration’ brought millions of African Americans from the South to cities like Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and, ultimately, Pasadena.

Unfortunately, however, when families reached cities that they thought would be more open and accepting, they didn’t find welcoming arms in their new communities. Ruby McKnight-Williams, a long-time member of Pasadena’s NAACP Branch, is quoted in Muir HS graduate Lynn Hudson’s book West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California’s Color Line as saying, “I didn’t see any difference between Pasadena and Mississippi except that they were spelled differently.”

Religious institutions were places where segregation was highly visible and commonplace, especially during the first years of the 20th century. Pasadena’s churches were no different, as many did not allow persons of color to worship from their pews. The construction of St. Barnabas Church was directly related to the exclusionary policies of the time by All Saints Episcopal Church, which is located across the street from City Hall.

During the first decades of 20th century, migrant families from the South, Mexico, Japan and China lived in what today is known as Old Pasadena. The area was a thriving mix of businesses, churches, restaurants, and even a hotel that catered to People of Color. In the middle of this culturally diverse neighborhood the seeds for St. Barnabas Church were sown by several prominent and dedicated women. In 1923 Georgia Weatherton provided her home on Del Mar St. near Fair Oaks Ave. for services, while Ellensteen Bevans and Rosebud Mims served as lay leaders for the fledgling church. All Saints Church provided a Lay Reader and organist to support their efforts to create an Episcopal community.

With formal admittance of St. Barnabas into the Episcopalian Archdioceses in 1932, a brick-and-mortar building was needed to host the congregation. Rather than inviting St. Barnabas’ members to join their Church, families from All Saints donated the land (Dobbins Family) at 1062 N. Fair Oaks Ave. and provided funding (Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fleming) to build a sanctuary. The church building, which is still in use today, was dedicated by Bishop Bertrand Stevens in June of 1933.

A sign for a church

St. Barnabas (Photo – Brian Biery)

The result has been that for nearly 90 years, St. Barnabas Church has focused on being of service to the community. Originally organized to serve Pasadena’s Black residents, it has grown to provide assistance and resources to a wide range of community members. For example, Parish Hall was constructed in 1972 with the hopes of functioning as a community center. Currently, three Alcoholics Anonymous groups use Parish Hall on weeknights as a meeting space. In addition, a Spanish-speaking Catholic congregation uses the Chapel on Sunday afternoons and a Spanish-speaking Pentecostal congregation meets in Parish Hall on Friday and Sunday evenings for their services.

According to church board member Marco White, “The oldest historically Black Episcopal Church in the San Gabriel Valley is still thriving! As a predominately Black, yet very integrated and inclusive church family, our core is ‘love’, St Barnabas style. All are welcome here!” In addition, the church donates 40% of its assets, provides dinner to the Union Station community every 3rd Friday of the month, gives college scholarships to PUSD grads, and raises funds for emergency financial support for community members.

Next time you drive up Fair Oaks Ave. slow down just before Hammond St. to see the St. Barnabas Church spire as it proudly crowns its humble chapel. And consider stopping to visit this unique and amazing faith community, one that has graced our city with generosity and compassion that belie its origin during a time when segregation was more common than inclusion.

Frist Stop on the Historical Tour of Pasadena

Giving our Sheros and Heros their flowers (Althea, Violet, Sue & John) – Thank you for your love, Saint Barnabas style. You are the manifestation of God’s greatness.

Stewardship Day by Jonathan was a SMASHING success

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 10/9-10/16/2022 – Mo. Marianne

The 2023 Stewardship Season begins officially this Sunday (see below). Remember to prayerfully discern not only how you can support St. Barnabas financially, but also with your presence and service to the parish and wider community. Pledge cards are available in the back of the church and will be collected and blessed at a future service.

SUNDAY Oct. 16 10 AM SERVICE TIME! Sunday Forum: 2023 Budget and Stewardship. Please join us after church for food and discussion of budget needs for the upcoming year and how you can be part of stewarding the resources of our St. Barnabas community.

WEDS, Oct. 19, Nov. 2, NOTE NEW DAY! 6:30 PM Bible Study continues reading the Gospel of Mark. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

FRIDAY Oct. 21, 6 PM Union Station Monthly Meal. Join volunteers to provide a nutritious, hot meal to shelter residents and others in need. Union Station is located at 825 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104. If interested, please email your covid vaccination record in advance to: volunteer@unionstationhs.org. For more information, contact Jonathan Williams, jon.williams@sbcglobal.net

SUNDAY Nov. 6, Feast of All Saints & Souls A beautiful, solemn service where we honor the saints of the church and all those loved ones who have gone before us.

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter10/2-10/9/2022 – Mo. Marianne

THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the visit from our diocesan Bishop John Taylor so spectacular! In addition to the beautiful liturgy and music and great food, the bishop had a wonderful time meeting so many of our great St. Barnabas family. Bp. Taylor not only brought greetings and encouragement from our extended diocesan family, he spent quite a bit of time afterwards meeting with the vestry, hearing our stories and concerns, and offering support and counsel. Again, thanks to everyone whose efforts consistently keep faith and community alive and lively at St. Barnabas❤️

THURS Oct. 6, 20, Nov. 3, 6:30 PM Bible Study Continuing to read the Gospel of Mark. All are welcome, no preparation beforehand is necessary and there are snacks! (In Mo. Marianne’s office)

SUNDAY Oct. 16 10 AM SERVICE TIME! Sunday Forum: 2023 Budget and Stewardship. Please join us after church for food and discussion of budget needs for the upcoming year and how you can be part of stewarding the resources of our St. Barnabas community.

The 2023 Stewardship Season has begun! Remember to prayerfully discern not only how you can support St. Barnabas financially, but also with your presence and service to the parish and wider community. Pledge cards are available in the back of the church and will be collected and blessed at a future service.

THIS SUNDAY OCT 9 Choral Eucharist 9 AM.

Mo. Marianne

Bishop John Taylor is in the house!

“PREACH BISHOP PREACH!”

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 9/25-10/2/2022 – Mo. Marianne

Hello, St. Barnabas Fam!

This Sunday, Oct 2, the service time will be 10 am. Bp. John Taylor will be preaching and presiding followed by a festive meal, then a vestry meeting with the bishop to which all are invited. The bishop is looking forward to seeing you all, so please come say hi, praise God, and enjoy some food!😄

Together in Christ’s service,

Mo. Marianne

September 2022 Blog

Los Angeles Diocese Night at the Dodger Game – “It’s time for Dodger baseball!”

“We had a time last night!” – Natalie

December 2021 Blog

Advent

The first season of the church year, beginning with the fourth Sunday before Christmas and continuing through the day before Christmas. The name is derived from a Latin word for “coming.” The season is a time of preparation and expectation for the coming celebration of our Lord’s nativity, and for the final coming of Christ “in power and glory.”

Christmas

In the BCP, Christmas Day is one of the seven principal feasts. The Christmas season lasts twelve days, from Christmas Day until Jan. 5, the day before the Epiphany. The season includes Christmas Day, the First Sunday after Christmas Day, the Holy Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and may include the Second Sunday after Christmas Day. In many parishes, the main liturgical celebrations of Christmas take place on Christmas Eve. The BOS includes a variety of resources for use during Christmas, including a form for a Station at a Christmas Crèche, a form for a Christmas Festival of Lessons and Music, and seasonal blessings for use during the Christmas season.

Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles Events – November and December

Blood Drive Sunday, 07 November 2021 8:15 am – 2:00 pm
St. John Chrysostom Church and School, 30382 Via Con Dios, Rancho Santa Margarita 92688Register here.
Sponsor Code: St. John

Red Cross Blood Drive Thursday, 11 November 2021 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Christ Episcopal Church, 1127 N San Antonio Ave, Ontario, CA 91762, USA Information: 909.983.1859
Reservations here or call 1.800.RED.CROSS (1.800.733.2767)
Sponsor code: CCPOntario
Additional dates at this location: Saturday, Dec. 11.

Organ Recital: Jeremy Filsell Sunday, 14 November 2021
St James Episcopal Church, 3903 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010, USA Information/Livestream/on demand here
Solemn Evensong Sunday, 14 November 2021 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
St. James’ Episcopal Church 3903 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90010Information/Livestream/on demand here

Red Cross Blood Drive Monday, 22 November 2021 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 12692 5th St, Yucaipa, CA 92399, USA Reservations here or call 1.800.RED.CROSS (1.800.733.2767)
Sponsor code: ST ALBANS
Upcoming date at this location: Monday, Dec. 27.

Red Cross Blood Drive Saturday, 11 December 2021 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Christ Episcopal Church, 1127 N San Antonio Ave, Ontario, CA 91762, USA Information: 909.983.1859
Reservations here or call 1.800.RED.CROSS (1.800.733.2767)
Sponsor code: CCPOntario

Advent Procession of Lesson & Carols Sunday, 12 December 2021 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
St James Episcopal Church, 3903 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010, USA Choir of St. James’; Canon James Buonemani, director

Information/Livestream/on demand here

Red Cross Blood Drive Monday, 27 December 2021 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 12692 5th St, Yucaipa, CA 92399, USA Reservations here or call 1.800.RED.CROSS (1.800.733.2767)
Sponsor code: ST ALBANS

St. Barnabas & Current Events

Other News

Every Third Friday of the Month

We prepare and serve dinner to the residents of Union Station Adult Center, 825 E. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104 every third Friday 6:00 – 8:30 PM

* Please feel free to contact Mo. Marianne with any questions regarding the details of an event or to add an event to the calendar.

March 2023 Blog

Love, Saint Barnabas Style – eternal and unconditional Love that transcends race without denying it!

SPREAD THE WORD!

Women’s HERstory/Women’s Future Month Moment

In support of The Mecca, Howard University, we need your VOTE for this year’s Home Depot’s Retool Your School program! Help preserve the legacy of our campus; With your help, Howard can win a $150K Retool Your School grant!

SPREAD THE WORD!

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 3/20-3/26/2023 – Mo. Marianne

OUR SAINT BARNABAS 100 – “STILL WE RISE” CENTENNIAL T-SHIRT FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN HAS ENDED AS A COMPLETE SUCCESS!

Thank you to our ENTIRE Saint Barnabas Church Family and our Extended Church Family for your support in our first t-shirt fundraiser campaign!

(Your orders should arrive around Apr 04)

We exceeded our goals for this fundraiser campaign with over $500 raised!

That’s LOVE, Saint Barnabas Style! 🖤

Now the real work begins as we ramp up the planning of our Saint Barnabas Day/100th Year Celebration/Inaugural Church Family Reunion & Homecoming on Sunday, June 11, 2023.

SPREAD THE WORD!

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 3/13-3/19/2023 – Mo. Marianne

Women’s HERstory/Women’s Future Month Moment

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 3/6-3/12/2023 – Mo. Marianne

Join us tomorrow Wednesday at 7 at Saint Barnabas Pasadena as we host the Los Angeles Diocese Lenten Services of Lament, Hope, and Call to Action for Black Lives

Women’s HERstory/Women’s Future Month Moment

ONLY 2 MORE WEEKS FOR OUR FUNDRAISER CAMPAIGN ENDING 3/17!

Order your Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise Centennial T-shirt AND donate NOW and help us fund our Saint Barnabas Day/100th Year Celebration/Inaugural Church Family Reunion & Homecoming – Sunday, June 11, 2023, at 1062 N Fair Oaks Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103

Video: Ethiopian Gospel Book

Women’s HERstory/Women’s Future Month Moment

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 2/27-3/5/2023 – Mo. Marianne

February 2023 Blog

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 2/20-2/27/2023 – Mo. Marianne

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

LA Opera: Russell Thomas Concert FREE @ CAAM!Thursday, February 23, 20237:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Friday 2/17 Union Station Serving Dinner, Saturday 2/18 Black History/Black Future Parade and Saint Barnabas 100 Celebration & Sunday Service and Fellowship 2/19/2023

Order your Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise Centennial T-shirt NOW and help us fund our Saint Barnabas Day/100th Year Celebration/Inaugural Church Family Reunion & Homecoming – Sunday, June 11, 2023, at 1062 N Fair Oaks Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 2/13-2/20/2023 – Mo. Marianne

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

An Evening with Nikole Hannah-Jones

Tue, Feb 21, 2023, 6:00 PM PST @ USC Bovard Auditorium 3551 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, CA 90089

The Charlotta Bass Media Trailblazer Speaker SeriesBy USC Visions and Voices

Sunday Service and Fellowship 2/12/2023

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Service Celebrating The Feast of Absalom Jones -Sunday Feb 19, 3pm

Streamed live on the Friends of St. Stephen’s FB page on Feb 19, 3pm – https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064673560457&sk=live_videos

ASH WEDNESDAY Feb 22, 6:30pm, Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes. Receive ashes as a sign of humble and intentional return to God (repentance) as we begin our Lenten sojourn with Jesus in the wilderness.

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Join us as we celebrate Saint Barnabas 100 – Still We Rise, our 100 Year Centennial at the 41st Annual Pasadena Black History Parade & Festival – Saturday, February 18, 2023, at 1062 N Fair Oaks Ave. Pasadena, CA 91103 – 10am – 4pm

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Celebrate Black History Month 2023: Black Resistance: A Journey to Equality

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 2/5-2/12/2023 – Mo. Marianne

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Black Prophetic Fire: An Evening of Philosophy, Politics, and Culture with Dr. Cornel West

Sunday Service and Fellowship 2/5/2023

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Feb. 7, 1926: Carter G. Woodson Launched Negro History Week

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 1/29-2/5/2023 – Mo. Marianne

January 2023 Blog

Black History/Black Future Month Moment

Happy Birthday to Jackie Roosevelt Robinson, our West Pasadena Pepper St., John Muir HS, UCLA & Dodger Homie

To our Dream Keeper, Jesus Christ

Langston Hughes – Dream Keeper

Sunday Service and Fellowship 1/29/2023

James Baldwin asks a simple question…

The answer is NOW!

Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry

A pastoral word on the death of Tyre Nichols

Lord in your mercy hear our prayers…

St. Barnabas Annual Meeting & BURRITOS This Sunday 1/29! – Mo. Marianne

Jackie Robinson’s 104th Birthday Celebration – 1/31/2023

By The Pasadena Parks and Recreation at Jackie Robinson Community Center

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 1/22-1/29/2023 – Mo. Marianne

Sunday Service and Fellowship 1/22/2023

Union Station Serving Dinner 1/20/2023

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 1/15-1/22/2023 – Mo. Marianne

Martin Luther King Jr. at UCLA 4/27/1965

A day on, not a day off – National Museum of African American History and Culture 1/16/2023

Sunday Service and Fellowship 1/15/2023

Priest In Charge Weekly Newsletter 1/8-1/15/2023 – Mo. Marianne

38th Annual KINGDOM DAY PARADE

MONDAY JANUARY 16, 2023 – 11AM

We reaffirm Who We Are

Our Mission Statement – Love, Saint Barnabas Style 🖤

We reacknowledged the Gabrielino-Tongva Nation

Our Land Acknowledgement Statement

LA Opera: Russell Thomas Concert FREE @ CAAM!
Thursday, February 23, 2023
7:00 – 8:00 p.m.

The Charlotta Bass Media Trailblazer Speaker Series
By USC Visions and Voices