Story by Canon Stephanie Martin Taylor
Photo above taken by Canon Stephanie at Holy Child & St. Martin, Daly City
Leading up to this summer’s Episcopal Church General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, the Rev. David M. Rider, a photographer and priest resident in the Diocese of New York, has been visiting a wide range of Episcopal dioceses around the Church. He’s been looking for, in his words, “outreach ministries, joyful multicultural parishes, [and] urban ministries that General Convention attendees might not have seen.”
Rev. David says the photographs will be featured in a slideshow that will loop on the big screens at the 81st General Convention, which takes place June 23 to 28, 2024. He says the Episcopal Church’s Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society assigned him the project to “visually capture the wide diversity of our Church.”
Holy Child & St. Martin, Daly City
On Sunday, February 25, Rev. David photographed the Sunday morning Eucharist at Holy Child & St. Martin, Daly City. One of our diocese’s most culturally diverse congregations. Under the leadership of the Rev. Jurek Fernandez, the church was on that day celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Manaoag, a tradition observed by many Filipino Christians.
Click here to see Rev. David’s photos from Holy Child & St. Martin.
Saint John the Evangelist, San Francisco
Earlier that week, Rev. David also visited Saint John the Evangelist in San Francisco’s Mission District. Click here to view the photographs, which include images of the Rev. Kevin Deal, St. John’s rector, and the Gubbio Project, a shelter that St. John’s hosts inside its sanctuary.
All Saints, San Francisco
The DioCal tour also included All Saints in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Click here to see photos from his tour of the church and neighborhood with the Rev. Dan Scheid.
St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco
Rev. David says in 2021, he took photos of worship at St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco, and those will be included in the General Convention slideshow as well.
See more of Rev. David’s photography at davidrider.photoshelter.com.
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