Checking in at St. Clemente's, Huntington Park

Checking in at St. Clemente's, Huntington Park

Outside St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in Huntington Park on Sunday afternoon, if you saw five men standing and praying in a circle on the sidewalk, that was the vicar, the Rev. Santos Flores, his son, Jose, two of his lay leaders, and I. He had just shown me the mission church’s new foundation sign. I had enough Spanish to be able to read it out in English: “Our teenagers and young people aren’t bad. They just need love, acceptance, and support…