This project takes as its starting point the complex and shifting context of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church: an historic Japanese-American Episcopal parish in the middle of Los Angeles’ Koreatown. The parish’s neighborhood was until recently overwhelming poor and Latino, and is now increasingly Korean and economically diverse. In a series of narrative reflections grounded in academic study, I will explore the size and shape of the multiple and intersecting cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic and generational gaps that shape my ministry as St. Mary’s Rector. I will familiarize myself with current academic work on the major constituent groups in and around St. Mary’s, with particular attention to generational dynamics, cross-cultural relationships and the experience of other churches in diverse and changing settings. Through honest and entertaining accounts of the ups and downs of my and St. Mary’s attempts to navigate the shifting gaps that surround us, I will offer tools and encouragement for other ministers and congregations seeking to discern the gaps in their own contexts and improvise their own creative crossings out of the materials at hand.