Los Angeles’ First United Methodist Church’s founding mission was to minister to the “rowdy and incorrigible” in the City of Angels. Today, the small congregation is a church without walls that meets in a tent not far from the city’s notorious Skid Row. As the coronavirus spreads into the community, Rev. Mandy Sloan McDow describes how she and the church’s members protect the most vulnerable in their community. They are packaging hygiene kits for the homeless and making sure their seniors stay home. In the crisis, McDow says she returns to the New Testament stories of Jesus caring “for the least of these,” a reminder to see the person and not the disease.
Rev. Mandy Sloan McDow, senior minister at Los Angles First Methodist Episcopal Church
The congregation of First United Methodist Church worships at their "church without walls."
Courtesy, First United Methodist Church of Los Angeles