If it's January, then it's time for another installment of useless facts, items about the Episcopal Church which occasionally might be worth knowing:

The youth group at St. Joseph's Church, Boynton Beach, Fla., is called "Yo!"

The Anglican Rite Old Catholic Church has a confessional on the Internet.

Until this season, the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League had an assistant coach named Bishop Harris.

There's an Episcopal church in Medicine Lodge, Kan. (St. Mark's) and Medicine Bow, Wyo. (St. Luke's).

At the end of 1996, 47 percent of the 912 deacons in the Episcopal Church were women.

The annual football game between Seabury-Western and Nashotah House seminaries is called the Lavabo Bowl.

The lay gardening/groundskeeping group at St. David's-in-the-Pines, Wellington, Fla., is called the Branch Davidians.

All Saints' Cathedral, Milwaukee, had two sets of twin boys baptized at the same service.

St. Peter's, Bon Secour, Ala., puts on a fried oyster dinner.

A cycling team led by members of St. Luke's, Alexandria, Va., is called the Holy Rollers.

There's a St. James' Church in Goshen, N.Y., and a St. James' in Goshen, Ind.

The vestry of All Saints' Church, Western Springs, Ill., held its retreat at a bank.

St. Mary's, Dorchester, Mass., has a group known as the Heavenly Fire Steel Band.

Former criminal Murph the Surf addressed the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at its annual convention.

St. Paul's Church, Fredericksted, on St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, consecrated the pool table in its parish hall as an altar after the church was destroyed by fire.

The softball team at Grace Church, Alexandria, Va., is called the "Smoking Thuribles."

St. Paul's, Kennewick, Wash., numbers among its members four sets of twins between 9 and 17 years old.

There are 39 Episcopal churches in Baltimore.

Among gifts presented to Bishop Cate Waynick at her consecration as Bishop of Indianapolis was a basketball.

There are Episcopal churches in Wyoming, Mich. (Holy Trinity), Nevada, Mo. (All Saints') and Indiana, Pa. (Christ Church).

Amelia Earhart was an Episcopalian.

The Rev. Marianne D. Stephens is priest-in-charge of St. Stephen's, Morganton, N.C.

There's a St. John's Church in Centralia, Wash., and a St. John's in Centralia, Ill.

St. Peter's, Brentwood, Pa., sends care packages of cookies to college students from the parish.

There are Episcopal churches in Red Oak, Iowa (All Angels), Live Oak, Fla. (St. Luke's), and Fair Oaks, Calif. (St. Francis).

House of Deputies President Pamela Chinnis recently began her seventh triennium on Executive Council.

Church of the Holy Spirit, Lake Forest, Ill., calls its bookstore "Missions Possible."

David Kalvelage, editor