An immigrant church

We are an immigrant church.

Bishop Mark Sisk points that out in his column of this issue. [Visit The Bishop's Message page]

We are an immigrant church.

Increasingly, many – most? – of our churches, our neighborhoods, and our communities boast an immigrant population. This is evidenced in various ways - through bilingual signs, through the vast array of ethnic foods now available to us, through the many languages we hear as we walk down the street.

We are an immigrant church.

Many of us are immigrants, or children/grandchildren of immigrants. In Focus, located on the back page, looks at our roots and our heritage.

In the Episcopal Diocese of New York, we embrace our immigrants, we embrace the diversity that immigrants provide to us and to our life in worship and community. We also know that in many cases, immigrants need our help, and that’s one of the things we Episcopalians do best – we help others.

The Episcopal New Yorker examines our immigrant church in the following pages: how we are responding to the needs of immigrants, to their lives, how we are learning from each other, and how we are all better for it.

We are an immigrant church.