“I feel so much more joy and peace coming here,” said Nancy McBride, a resident of Palos Verdes Estates who left St. Francis Episcopal Church about five years ago and now attends Christ Our Savior. “What I know is right, and I no longer have to defend that view.”
John Whitmeyer, also a lifelong Episcopalian, came Sunday at the invitation of McBride, but describes him as “on the fence” when it comes to switching churches.
“It’s hard to leave a church where all your friends are,” said Whitmeyer, who has attended St. Francis since 1960. “I don’t want to leave the Episcopal church, but it is a ship that’s sinking.”