THE Episcopal News Weekly Scan to subscribe to The Episcopal News WWW.EPISCOPALNEWS.COM SERVING THE SIX-COUNTY DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES MARCH 11, 2018 T he Program Group on Youth Minis- try (PGYM) invites youth and young adults to join students and families across America in demanding an end to gun violence and mass shootings. The “March For Our Lives” is scheduled for March 24, in concordance with a march planned for Wash- ington D.C. As part of the nationwide initiative, several marches are scheduled around the six coun- ties of the Diocese of Los Angeles, with loca- tions including downtown Los Angeles, Man- hattan Beach, Huntington Beach, Irvine, San Clemente, Riverside and more. Full details are available at http://event.marchforourlives. com. Participants with the diocesan Program Group on Youth will join the downtown Los Angeles March. Diocesan participants will remember the life of fellow Episcopalian and student Carmen Schentrup who perished in the Ash Wednesday shooting in Parkland, Florida. To register and for information, visit http://www.pgym.la/events.? Spanish-language ministry fair offers new mission opportunities Girls Friendly Society to Host ‘Not So Quiet Day’ The Episcopal News, Lent 2018 issue, is now online T he Lent 2018 issue of The Episcopal News is now online for reading and print- ing. Stories include a report on ministry at All Saints by-the-Sea Church in Montecito after devastating mud- slides; recovery from vandalism at Church of the Angels, Pasadena; and a profile of Archdeacon Charleen Crean. Visit www. episcopalnews.com for links to the issue. T he Girls Friendly Society will be at St. Andrew’s Church in Fullerton on March 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., teaching guests about gardening, sustainabil- ity, and community food needs at a “Not So Quiet Day” under the theme “Christ Hath a Garden.” Girls ages 5 through 28 are wel- come, along with parents and friends. Participants are asked to wear casual clothes for gardening work and to bring a plant-based dish to share at a lunch potluck. Activities will include a garden tour, a scaven- ger hunt, and constructing “sharing gardens” for participants to take home. To register, go to tinyurl.com/NSQD2018. For information, contact Nora Harris at nlhar- [email protected]. St. Andrew’s Church is lo- cated at 1231 E. Chapman Avenue, Fullerton. GFS-LA has also announced that leaders who work with youth are encouraged to ap- ply for the Stand Up! Speak Out! Curriculum Training Scholarship, which can provide up to $400 for the applicant to attend a train- ing session by the Institute for Girls’ Develop- ment on July 19-20, 2018 in Pasadena. Please contact Margaret Nolde at 714.330.1156 for more information. ? Southland rallies set for March 24 Above: A family waits to sign in. Above right: Lorenzo Lebrija prepares the table for the conference Eucharist. Right: Francisco Garcia and Jaime Edwards-Acton tell stories “from the front lines of love” to young attendees. Photos by John H. Taylor. G athered to strengthen Latino ministries across the Diocese of Los Angeles, some 60 Episcopalians participated the third annual diocesan Feria de Ministe- rios (Ministry Fair) hosted by the diocesan Program Group on Latino/Hispanic Minis- tries and featuring workshops on community organizing, how to be a better Christian, the use of the Anglican rosary, and more. Bishops John Harvey Taylor and Diane Jardine Bruce were present to share in the day, held at the Cathedral Center. Keynote speaker Miguel de la Torre, well-known schol- ar-activist who is professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at Iliff School of Theol- ogy, gave talks in English and Span- ish on “Embrac- ing Hopelessness” (title of his 2017 book) amid current political contexts. Part of that stance, he said, involves countering racism with healthy self-identification rather than perpetuation of colonial stereotyping, he said. Additional coverage will follow in on- line editions of The Episcopal News. ?