St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, Arroyo Grande, California

06/07/2026

Today we celebrated the Feast of St. Barnabas with great worship (see livestream below), honoring our graduates, and, of course, Santa Maria style chicken BBQ. Many thanks to all who contributed to make this an awesome celebration.

05/24/2026

Welcome to worship at St. Barnabas’ Episcopal Church in Arroyo Grande, California. Please leave a comment letting us know from where you are joining us. Also, if you would like the bulletin you may find it here: https://saintbarnabas-ag.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/260524-Online.pdf.
Thank you for worshipping with us today!

04/13/2026

May 1st and 2nd. If you can only come one day, people of St. Barnabas, I encourage you to come for the Friday banquet in which our own Jeff Diehl will be honored. On Saturday Canon David Link will guide us through and exploration of music in the life of the Church. He is the Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Sacramento. And the bonus is you get to greet (and meet) friends from around the diocese! Hope to see you there.

Why do we sing in worship at all? We don't just speak the liturgy - we sing it. Canon David Link opens Spring Renewal with this question, and the answer turns out to go deeper than aesthetics. What does music do that words alone cannot?

🎶Come find out. May 1st and 2nd at All Saints Day School.

Register at realepiscopal.org/spring-renewal

04/04/2026

Presiding Bishop Sean's Easter message.

04/01/2026

The Episcopal Church Loves YOU! 🥰

God of love,
you create each of us in your image and call us beloved:
Bless transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people with safety, joy, and peace;
give us grace to honor the dignity of every human being
and to walk in the way of justice and truth;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

03/24/2026

Join us for Holy Week
Palm Sunday Eucharist 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
April 1st Stations of the Cross 5:00 p.m.
April 2nd Maundy Thursday Eucharist 7:00 p.m.
April 3rd Good Friday service 7:00 p.m.

03/21/2026

Good Friday Letter from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe
There is a QR code at the end for making a donation online.

Dear people of God in The Episcopal Church: For more than a century, Episcopalians have given generously to the Good Friday Offering, which supports the vital work and ministries of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. Today, the need of the church in the Holy Land is greater than....

03/01/2026

Letter from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe on Military Strike on Iran

Dear people of God in The Episcopal Church,

Here in the United States, we awoke this morning with alarm to the news that the United States and Israel have launched a large military strike on Iran. This violent attack comes despite weeks of negotiations that many of us had hoped would prevent armed conflict in this fragile region, which is home to so many religious traditions and faithful people.

Bishop Jeffrey Mello of Connecticut and a group of pilgrims from that diocese are in the Holy Land now, and when we spoke this morning, he let me know that they are safe at St. George’s College in Jerusalem. I ask you to pray fervently for them and their safe return.

Pray, too, for all the people of the Holy Land, and especially for the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East and its leader, Archbishop Hosam Naoum. I had planned to be with Hosam today and tomorrow when he made a long-planned visit to our church. Many Episcopalians who had hoped to see him and assure him of our support will feel his absence keenly in the coming days. I commend to you the letter that he has sent to the people of his diocese this morning.

As news reports tell us of fear and panic in Iran, I ask you to pray especially for the people of the Diocese of Iran and for all of the Iranian people. In recent weeks, we have mourned as the regime in Iran has killed peaceful protesters, and watched with alarm at both its increasing repression of the Iranian people and the escalating response of the U.S. government. As Christians who follow a Prince of Peace, we mourn that today’s attacks will surely mean further hardship for the most vulnerable Iranians and, as retaliation inevitably follows, suffering that will spread across the entire region.

Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be gathered under the banner of the Prince of Peace, as children of one Father; to whom be dominion and glory, now and for ever. Amen.

The Most Rev. Sean Rowe
Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church


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12/25/2025

The annual plucking of wax from the carpet on Christmas morning. Merry Christmas!