Please bring potluck food and desserts!
Each year we gather as one big church family to hear reports from the lay and clergy leadership, to thank the outgoing Vestry members, to vote for four new Vestry members, to hear the announcement of a new Senior Warden, to vote for the delegates for the Diocesan Convention, to engage any new business and to appreciate the fellowship of one another. Thank you for your efforts and presence for this important annual meeting!

Saturday January 30 - 8:30am - 1:30pm  
Annual meeting with celebrant and homilist the Right Reverend Mary D. Glasspool. Plus special guest Cathy Salser, founder of A Window Between Worlds. AWBW is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using art as a healing tool to empower and transform individuals and communities impacted by violence and trauma.
Cathedral Center, 840 Echo Park, LA. Please call Anna Eakins (310) 375-3438, if you would like to carpool.

Thank you so much for all your well wishes and your generous gifts for my ordination to the priesthood! My heart overflows with the joy of celebrating with many of you at the ordination service at St. John's Pro-Cathedral and on my first Sunday at St. Francis as a priest. So great to experience all this with our St. Francis family.
Gratefully, Peter+

St Francis now offers online and electronic giving options.
Give via checking account, credit or debit card.
Electronic giving can help you prioritize your finances, but helping you give to God's mission first. It can also help you manage your giving, and access your giving account at your convenience.
Click here to reach the giving website
Questions about our electronic giving? Email Elaine Mistele. Or call her at the church office at 310 375 4617.

We need storage space for the St. Francis Rummage Sale, one of our biggest fund-raisers. For the past several years Ruth Frank has graciously allowed us to use her garage to store the items sold later at the annual sale. That space is no longer available, so we now need floor-space - about 150 sq. ft. (10' x 15') - to replace it. If you have a garage space you would be willing to let the church use, please email Gloria Jones or call her on 310-375-8916, who has run the rummage sale for over a decade, or Clint Alley, Junior Warden (703-978-8778). The need is immediate - we already have people wanting to donate items for this year's sale (in August) - so if you can help, please let us know right away.

February 7th 
We are so pleased that the Archdeacon for the Diocese of Los Angeles, Joanne Leslie, will join us on Sunday, February 7th. She will preach at both services and will share about the Diaconate and the many special outreach ministries in which our some 44 ordained deacons throughout the diocese are involved. Joanne also will lead a forum discussion, in the boardroom, after both services to discuss more about the role of deacon and to see if perhaps God is calling you to discern a call to become a Deacon yourself! Joanne will be joined in the boardroom by St. Francis parishioner, Hank Gatlin, who serves as the lay member on our Diocese's Deacon Council and has worked closely with our diocesan deacons for some five years. Please join us!