Trinity Episcopal Church
A Parish of the Diocese of Los Angeles
4274 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90029
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Mission
Much as we love Trinity Church and the fellowship and nourishment we find within its walls, our Baptismal Covenant, like the Eucharist, will not let us rest there, but quickly sends us out into the world as witnesses to God's love. We carry out this mission in personal prayer, contemplation, and intercession, in self-giving service to others, and in witnessing and working for the justice and peace of God's Kingdom, for whose coming on earth we pray daily. Some of us may be better at one or another of these three facets of a balanced Christian life, and one of the ways we need each other is to make up for our individual specializations. But we try to hold them together.
Witnessing and working for what St. Catharine of Siena called "Holy Justice" will undoubtedly get us involved in "politics" and we are not afraid of politics. As the English priest Conrad Noel put it, "the blind following of any political party, the politics of the party hack, these are certainly not the business of the pulpit; but politics, in the wider sense of social justice, are part and parcel of the gospel of Christ and to ignore them is to be false to His teaching." We recognize that sincere Christians may not always agree on the best ways to achieve the justice and peace we all are bound to seek, and we respect the right and duty of individual Christians to inform themselves and come to their own conclusions in regard to particular issues. But because God particularly loves them, 
we find our natural place among "the poor and the helpless, the cold, the hungry and the oppressed, the sick and those who mourn, the lonely and unloved, the aged and little children" -- those "on the margins" of a society whose gods are wealth and power,
You are warmly invited to join us for worship on Sunday and other occasions in the church, and to join with us and others in striving for justice and peace in the city and the world, resisting all that corrupts and destroys the creatures of God.
Baptismal Covenant
Will you continue in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of the bread, and in the prayers? I will, with God's help.
Will you persevere in resisting evil, and, whenever you fall into sin, repent and return to the Lord? I will, with God's help.
Will you proclaim by word and example the Good News of God in Christ? I will, with God's help.
Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself? I will, with God's help.
Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being? I will, with God's help.
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Trinity Episcopal Church
Phone: 323 660-1110
FAX: 323 660-8954
E-mail: TrinityLA@aol.com