The blaze that swept through West Maui is the deadliest US wildfire in over a century. Please help us work with our local partners to provide relief and support. Make an urgent tax-deductible donation to the Hawai'i Emergency Response Fund today.

We are also donating this Sunday's loose plate offering to relief efforts in Hawaii; this means that all cash donations will go to Episcopal Relief and Development. Also, people are welcome to write a check; make the check payable to St. Francis and write Hawaii Relief Efforts in the memo line.  

This Sunday at the 10:00 am service we will bless all students, teachers, and administrators before they begin their official school year later in the week. All retired teachers are also welcome to be blessed, as are coaches, teacher’s aids, and parents who are looking forward to the school year but dreading science fairs. In other churches they often bless backpacks; I think this is as much about the blessing as it is about alliteration. I will gladly bless backpacks, but as a parent, I also understand that it’s just one more thing to put in the car on an already hectic Sunday morning, and you don’t want it to get lost or scuffed up before the first day of school.

— Jason+

Art camp was daunting but joyful, as well as more taxing than I thought possible; on the first day, I had over 7,000 steps by noon. We had 22 artists that attended over the course of the week, though we never had more than 18 in one day; of those 22, only three were girls, which made for a week of high energy and repeated requests for quiet. Ed and Pat Hinz led the kids through painting a trivet, a cross with flowers, and clay sheep. Margaret Sharpe also taught the kids how to form clay using an understructure, and Claire Erbeznik and I led the rest of the classes. We had a great crew of volunteers, and the kids had a good time. Claire did an amazing job, and is a natural teacher; she was able to keep the artists on task, without ever raising her voice or making veiled threats. She taught me how to meet high energy with low; instead of yelling over everyone to get their attention, and thus raising the energy level, she quietly would say, “Everyone who can hear me, clap once. Everyone who can hear me, clap twice…” It worked. She typically had their attention within half a minute and calmly dissipated the energy. I am looking forward to having art camp again next summer, as well as a two - three-day camp during winter break this year.

— Jason+

This Sunday the Outreach Scholarship Fund of St. Francis celebrates 25 years of helping students get to college. At the 10:00AM service we will hear from one of the students that was helped several years ago, who has since earned both her Bachelors and Masters Degrees. She approached one of the people on the scholarship board at the rummage sale to express her thanks, as well as to give a donation to the fund in thanks for all they did for her. After the service we will eat cake and raise our coffee cups in a toast to the good work being done through the scholarship fund.

What are you doing Thursday, Sept. 28th? Would you like to join the SAGES on an outing to the Getty Villa Museum in Pacific Palisades? If so, please contact Kristina Pelá. Admission is free, but reserved tickets for timed entry are required so please RSVP by August 31st. We'll meet at 9am to carpool to the site and enjoy a couple of hours there, including lunch, before returning home late afternoon

Please send all notices you wish to be included in the enews or bulletins to Rev. Jason.

While parents and guardians worship, our kids will be thriving, with supervised fun in the fantastic Town and Country playground this summer. Come straight down to the playground at the bottom of the steps. Or ask an Usher to direct you.

The nursery is still available for our tiniest church members. Up to you to decide where your little one(s) would be happiest.

And as ever we always welcome kids in church. No one will shush you. We love to see families and children in our pews!

Contact: Kristina Pelá

Our full Worship services can all be found on our YouTube channel. Just scan through the video for the sermon.

Weekly Worship

8:00 a.m. - Rite I in-person worship in the Chapel, with hymns. This service is not live-streamed.

10:00 a.m. - Rite II in-person worship in the main church with music. Live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube, and available for watching later.

Following the service we have coffee, tea (or plain, warm water), donut holes and other yummy nibbles. We also have a children's social hour in the St Francis' Garden, to the right of the church. There the kids enjoy juice, water, cookies and fruit. If you're reading this, odds are good you've been to at least one service - or someone surreptitiously gave us your email address. If you have any questions about what we do or why we do it, please don't hesitate to make an appointment with Father Jason, who loves talking about church (also Jesus, his kids and Star Wars, though not always in that order).

Please contact Kristina Pelá to arrange for a Lay Eucharistic Minister to safely bring you communion.

A spiritual mind and body practice!

Parish Hall. No set fees - classes are free-will offering. Questions? Jill Fenske

To volunteer to help one week after the 10am worship service, see the sign-up sheet at Sunday coffee hour.

Need someone's email, or even map directions to their home?

Go to https://servantkeeper.com/directory/sfc/login

Bookmark the link on your phone or computer and let your browser save the password and you will always be up to date with information!

Office main line - 310-375-4617

The Rev. Jason Shelby 310-594-7984 - Rector

Mark Bennett 310-594-7416 - Director of Music

David Knight 310-375-4617- Organist

Claire Erbeznik 310-375-4617 - Office Administrator & Receptionist

Elaine Mistele 310-594-8268 - Business Manager

Joel Miranda - Sexton