Anglican Congregations Established in the 20th Century - St. Thomas the Apostle Hollywood, St. James House of Prayer Episcopal Church (Paperback)

Chapters: St. Thomas the Apostle Hollywood, St. James House of Prayer Episcopal Church, St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church (Atlanta, Ga), All Hallows Twickenham, St. James Anglican Church, St. John's Episcopal Church (Moultrie, Georgia), Saint Paul's Episcopal Church (Morganton, North Carolina), All Saints Anglican Church (Raleigh, North Carolina), Brecon Cathedral, Cathedral Shelter of Chicago, St. Augustine Church. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Saint Thomas the Apostle is an Episcopal / Anglican church in Hollywood, California. St. Thomas Episcopal Church did not become an officially incorporated parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles until August 1920. Its history really began in 1912, when Mrs. Mary Ogden organized a church school in her living room with ten people at the first meeting. Legend has it that the nascent congregation chose Saint Thomas the Apostle as its patron saint in 1913, when the bishop, after an investigation, "doubted" that there was a need for a mission in the far reaches of Los Angeles in Hollywood, where orange trees far outnumbered prospective parishioners. Undaunted, the handful of faithful chose the doubting apostle as their patron and applied again, successfully this time, for mission status in 1914. On January 10, 1918, Bishop Joseph Horsfall Johnson appointed the Reverend A.F. Randall Priest-in-Charge; church attendance rose to 37 on the following Sunday, and the next month the priest's salary was increased from $20 to $30 per month. By November 1919 a building fund (largely of Liberty Bonds and Thrift Certificates) had reached almost $1,600 and a lot on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Sierra Bonita Avenue was purchased a simple frame building was erected. A new campaign for parish status culminat...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1156615