Epiphany is located in San Carlos at the corner of Cedar Street and Arroyo Avenue, a residential area, and across from a large city park, Burton Park.
The church building, parish hall (named Eastburn Hall after the founding rector), classrooms, business offices, and play yard occupy approximately two-thirds of an acre and are surrounded by mature trees and well-kept grounds. In 2007, a large bricked courtyard and entrance area was added in front of the parish hall.
The Gothic-style church has a nave and sanctuary arranged in a miniature cathedral fashion. The nave seats 325. Forty-two stained glass windows located on all four walls of the sanctuary, depict the four Gospel Evangelists and various Biblical themes. The chapel, which opens off the nave, is used for special services and for post-communion healing prayer. It seats approximately 25.
We have three musical instruments in the church: a Steinway grand piano, a small Wurlitzer spinet piano, and an Ahlborn Galanti Praeludium III digital organ from Mondaino, Italy. The organ, dedicated in 1989, has three manual and three memory banks for registrations of pipes. It has an additional sound module that increases the potential of the organ to a total of 55 ranks. The Great and Swell chambers are divided among each side of the chancel and the choir echo organ gallery at the rear of the church. The sanctuary is equipped with a full sound system that integrates three wired microphones, 3 body mikes, two handheld microphones, a mixer/equalizer, a CD record and playback system, and has DVD playback capabilities.
The Parish Hall, Classrooms, and Business Offices
Eastburn Hall seats approximately 175 for meetings. It has a curtained stage, equipped with a fully functional sound mixing board, speakers, and two handheld mikes with stands. The hall has a console style Yamaha piano, a comfortable lounge adjacent to it for informal group meetings, and a large, fully equipped kitchen. The building also houses classrooms, a library, a nursery, a nursery school, and staff offices. Several community groups, such as the Interfaith Hospitality Network, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the Girl Scouts, use Eastburn Hall on a regular basis.
Sequoia Parent's Nursery School
We have a long-term relationship with Sequoia Parents’ Nursery School, a pre-school program for children ages 3 through 5 and their parents sponsored by the Sequoia Union High School District. The school uses the second-story facilities five days (8:30 am–12:30 pm) a week during the school session. In cooperation with the parish, it maintains an enclosed play yard, with active play apparatus, and a fully equipped preschool.
The Rectory
The rectory is a detached, single-family home located in a residential neighborhood about one mile from the church. It is within walking distance of public transportation, shopping, the public library, and parks. The 2,500-square-foot house has three bedrooms, three full baths, living room, dining room, kitchen, family room, office/bedroom, newly landscaped front and back yards, deck, and two-car garage.