ADVOCATING for DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, and SOCIAL JUSTICE
in the EPISCOPAL DIOCESE of LOS ANGELES and THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
UNION OF BLACK EPISCOPALIANS
in the
Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
Alexander Crummell, Patron Saint of UBE
President:
The Rev. Guy A. Leemhuis
818-248-3639
Meetings: 4th Sundays at 4 PM
Western Region UBE
Episcopal Diocese of
Los Angeles
Program Group on Black Ministry
Canon Suzanne Edwards-Acton
The Rev. Canon John Limo
Office of African Descent Ministries
Missioner for Black Ministries:
The Rev. Ronald C. Byrd, Sr.
Province VIII
The Episcopal Church
Black African Caribbean Ministries (BAM)
Ms. Sherina James
The Rev. Stacey Forte-Dupré
Co-Network Ministry Leaders
Events Calendar
A PRAYER FOR THE UNION OF BLACK EPISCOPALIANS
Almighty and ever-living God, by your gracious favor and omnipotent hand you have blessed, preserved and defended
your sons and daughters imbued with ebony grace. We give you humble and hearty thanks for Absalom Jones, James Theodore Holly, Alexander Crummell, Artemisia Bowden, George Freeman Bragg, Pauli Murray, and all your righteous servants who having carried aloft the torch of freedom now rest from their labors. We ask you especially to send your heavenly benediction upon the Union of Black Episcopalians. United in bonds of action, faithfulness, and determination, may it be a force for good in church and community, and a beacon for all of God’s children whose hope it is that justice
flow down like water. We ask this in the Name of your Son, Jesus Christ the Liberator, who lives, and reigns with you and
the Sustainer-Spirit, one God, now and forever. AMEN.
- The Rev. Canon Harold T. Lewis, Ph.D., former Rector Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Staff Officer
for Black Ministries 1983-94