Yesterday, the City Council Planning and Land Use Committee voted to recommend a yes vote to City Council on the following two motions: Motion #1 and Motion #2. Read more here: Moratorium on fracking OK’d by LA City Council committee (SCPR.ORG). The full City Council will vote on this THIS FRIDAY Feb 28 @ 10am (see flyer English…
White House on President’s Day 2014 with other faith leaders, immigrants and labor leaders in a pray-in to call on the Obama Administration to stop deportations that devastate immigrant families. Deportations under the Obama Administration will reach 2 million by April 2014. In response, Bishop Carcaño and other leaders have cited scripture as the reason…
Arie Wheeler Jones Bequeaths Major Endowment to Holman Holman’s Permanent Endowment Committee (PEC) is entrusted with one of the most sacred tasks in the body of the church: managing the gifts, usually an estate or a lump sum of cash, bequeathed to the church through a will. Since the creation of the Holman Permanent Endowment Fund over 11…
Check out this article from Laura K. Wise, mission intern from Holman, who served the past 18 months in the Philippines! Laura will be back to join us in worship on Sunday, February 23rd at 8 am with special guest preacher, Rev. Judy Chung, Associate General Secretary from the General Board of Global Ministries! ###…
It’s that time of year when we are expected to indulge in the depth and breadth of our history. Given the arduous and diverse nature of our history, whether shaped in the United States, or other places of origin, it can be a call beyond remembering. Our history, with its narrative rooted in the Southern…
The commemoration of Black History Month in the United States began with the vision of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, who founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, the Journal of Negro History and spearheaded ‘Negro History Week’ to promote the heritage and contributions of people of African ancestry in the United…
Pete Seeger, singer, songwriter and social activist, died Monday, Jan. 27 at the age of 94. He played a crucial role in adapting and popularizing “We Shall Overcome,” an anthem of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement that many congregations will sing during Black History Month. Click here for full article.
The 3 M’s – Mahatma, Martin, and Mandela by Bishop Minerva Carcaño | January 20, 2014 “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” – Martin Luther King Jr. This year as we give God thanks for the life and incredible and transformative justice witness of Dr. Martin…