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y that I mean that if we claim we belong to the apostolic way, which means that we are sent, then all the time whether we like it or not we are witnessing either positively or negatively to our faith. When we do well, then the glory returns to the Church, and when we are doing badly, that too reflects on the Church. So, without being too bombastic about it‌
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IONARIES OR WE ARE NOTHING.” —ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU
WHAT IS the MISSIONARY SOCIETY?
The Missionary Society is the people – the Presiding Bishop and staff members – who serve The Episcopal Church by working to support, equip, and empower all Episcopalians engaged in mission and ministry at a local level, wherever that may be, around the world. The Missionary Society explains both the content of our work and the values that drive it. The Missionary Society communicates that the Church exists for the purpose of mission, and that the staff exists to support and serve Episcopalians engaged in mission locally and around the world.
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDING BISHOP esus sent his friends out to do specific things: “Go into the world and make disciples of all peoples, baptizing and teaching them what I have taught you.” That sending is the origin of the word “mission.” It is God’s mission, and the church is a partner and participant. Mission is the church’s reason for existence, and as Emil Brunner so aptly noted, “The Church exists by mission as a fire exists by burning.” The Five Marks of Mission that have guided our churchwide work in recent years offer a framework for understanding and evaluating our efforts in God’s mission. First conceived in the mid-1980s, they have begun to get traction in The Episcopal Church in the last decade or so. Their genius is the awareness that no one person or community can engage them all in their fullness; it is only as the Body of Christ gathered that we can even begin to address God’s full
intent for a healed and reconciled creation. Mark 1 urges us all to proclaim the good news of what God has in mind for creation – that it be an environment of peace and justice for all (humanity and others). We do that by sharing God’s dream and encouraging people to explore its possibilities. Mark 2 invites us to introduce people to Jesus and then continue to teach and nurture their faith –
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through congregational life and worship, theological education, and a deep and nourishing life of the spirit. Mark 3 prods us to recognize human suffering and do something about it – feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, house the homeless, clothe the naked, visit and liberate the prisoner, and welcome the stranger. This is both the hands-on work of mercy and the reflective work of repentance and amendment of our common life toward greater justice. Mark 4 sends us out to do justice wherever we can, through changing systems and structures that perpetuate unjust and undignified treatment of other human beings, through peacemaking and reconciliation, through basic citizenship education. When Jesus said, “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s,” he also invited us to be “wise as serpents and innocent as doves” in seeking justice.
Mark 5 is the gardening work we share – tending the earth and all its resources, living and not. Together, creation is a gift for us all, to be carefully stewarded not only for the living, but for generations yet to come. This is at least part of what Jesus meant when he told his friends to travel light and depend on the hospitality of those they met – and not to trust in ever bigger barns. The mission work supported by churchwide resources and structures exists to connect, empower, support, and motivate Episcopalians in all our varied local contexts to engage God’s dream for a healed world. This report is a slice in time that offers a broad and particular glimpse of what the Missionary Society is up to. You may discover new opportunities here or dream up new possibilities! We hope you will share those discoveries and dreams with us all.
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MISSION AT ALL LEVELS: MEASUREABLE DELIVERABLES THE RT. REV. STACY F. S AULS Chief Operating Officer of The Episcopal Church
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r the first time, at least in recent memory, the o General Convention budget placed mission at its forefront, both literally and spiritually, by adopting the Five Marks of Mission of the Anglican Communion as its organizing principle.
One of the budget’s important missional realities is that it expects measurable deliverables. The churchwide staff is expected to produce results. The women and
men who work at the churchwide level were invigorated and inspired by the challenge. They set about to build partnerships with every diocese of The Episcopal Church.
They began thinking of themselves as a service organization intended to support the work of mission at all levels of the Church – congregational, diocesan, and church wide – and in that spirit they began to refer to themselves as the Missionary Society. My experience of these dedicated servants is that is that they give of themselves sacrificially to advance God’s mission in The Episcopal Church. To that end, the Missionary Society, in collaboration with the Executive Council, has sought to implement the mission plan contained in the churchwide budget. This is especially true of the creative initiatives that were a hallmark of the Five Marks of Mission budget: • Mark 1: To Proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom – leveraging churchwide resources with local resources to start new congregations, both traditional and nontraditional, including multicultural and underserved communities
• Mark 2: To Teach, Baptize, and Nurture New Believers – advancing Province IX’s plan for self-sustainability and freedom from dependence • Mark 3: To Respond to Human Need by Loving Service – making missionary service normative for Episcopalians within a generation • Mark 4: To Seek to Transform Unjust Structures of Society – engaging one-quarter of the members of The Episcopal Church in ministries of solidarity with the poor • Mark 5: To Strive and Safeguard the Integrity of Creation and Sustain and Renew the Life of the Earth – strengthening the local level of the Church to care for creation. Now it is time to report on our progress. It is a great privilege to serve the Church in this way. Thank you.
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TO PROCLAIM THE GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM
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ut strive first for the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness,� Jesus tells the crowd at the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:33). As missionaries in the 21st Century, Episcopalians continue to seek the Kingdom and proclaim to the world, in new and dynamic ways, the Good News of the transformation we experience through God in Christ. The Missionary Society partners with Episcopalians throughout the Church working to tell the story, and, indeed, encounter the story, with fresh eyes and open hearts in the world around us.
HOW CAN WE, TOGETHER, SEEK AND PROCLAIM THE KINGDOM OF GOD? We provide matching grants of up to $100,000 for new-church starts and up-to $20,000 for starting Mission Enterprise Zones. In the current triennium, we have worked with local networks of Episcopalians to seed nearly 40 new ministries and church plants. To date this triennium, we’ve awarded nearly $1.7 million in grants for this purpose, which when leveraged with matching funds, makes nearly $3.5 million available to accomplish the General Convention’s stated priority of starting new worshiping communities. In partnership with Lutherans, the Missionary Society is supporting these ministry starts in fresh and innovative ways. (By contrast, in the entire 2010-2012 triennium, The Episcopal Church saw only 11 new-church starts, with no financial support from churchwide resources.) Together,
we are building a churchwide movement for new-ministry development in a world longing for the gospel more than ever. Evangelism in the 21st century also means the ability to communicate effectively, and engage the passion of the wider world, through a variety of new and traditional platforms. As never before, the Missionary Society is not only networking and supporting Episcopalians working to proclaim the Good News, but offering a variety of professionalcommunication services to dioceses and congregations seeking to tell the story in their local contexts. Whether a community is seeking an affordable first-rate website, consultation on public relations, or professional-video production to support evangelism efforts, the chances are good the Missionary Society can partner with you.
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A “Mission Enterprise Zone” is a geographic area, group of congregations, or entire diocese committed to mission and evangelism that engages groups under-represented in The Episcopal Church, including youth and young adults, people of color, poor and working-class people, people without a college degree, and/or people with little or no church background or involvement. We provide grants, training, and support for planting congregations and starting Mission Enterprise Zones.
TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR NEW MINISTRY In the past several months, the Missionary Society has hosted nearly 70 hours of online startup coaching and strategy sessions for close to 150 new-ministry leaders, all via videoconference. We offer trainings in partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a full-communion partner of The Episcopal Church.
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$1,680,000 TOTALING NEARLY
matching dollars, awarded to date.
CLOSE TO $3.5 MILLION WITH MATCHING FUNDS
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Supported by the Missionary Society and reaching more than 600,000 visitors through 2.8 million page views, the Episcopal Digital Network is an ad-supported media network that delivers news, information, and branded entertainment to members and leaders of The Episcopal Church and the general public. The network includes the Episcopal News Service, Sermons That Work, Lesson Plans That Work, and our popular job and events board. One of the few ways to reach a churchwide audience through paid and free advertising, the Episcopal Digital Network connects clergy and lay-ministry leaders, church administrators, and active and involved Christians. Partners of the Missionary Society can use the network advertise job openings, events, newly published books, and other activities at a churchwide and local level.
> http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/
641,488 unique visitors in 2013
13,300
email subscribers
$100,000 in advertising revenue
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THE EPISCOPAL NEWS SERVICE Offering in-depth written and multimedia coverage and analysis of local, national, and global issues, the Episcopal News Service (ENS) is the official online news agency of The Episcopal Church. Provided by the Missionary Society for the use of all Episcopalians, the content produced by ENS may be republished or copied at no cost by any congregation, diocese, or church-affiliated organization. (See details online.) The Episcopal News Service website averages about 47,000 unique visitors and 115,000 page views each month. > http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/
More than 7,700 people follow ENS on Twitter, and more than 11,000 people subscribe to the daily ENS email. > https://twitter.com/episcopal_news or to subscribe to the ENS Daily email visit > h ttp://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/ email-signup/ An ENS Facebook page launched in February 2014 has almost 3,000 followers. > h ttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Episcopal-News-Service/260131260715544
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An online collection of free, weekly, lectionary-based sermons written by Episcopal clergy and lay leaders, the Sermons that Work website reaches an average of 4,600 visitors per sermon. > http://sermonsthatwork-rcl.com
SERMONES QUE ILUMINAN (“SERMONS THAT ILLUMINATE�) Since 2009, the Sermones que Iluminan website has provided free, weekly, lectionary-based Spanish-language sermons written by Latino/Hispanic Episcopal clergy and lay leaders for Latino/ Hispanic congregations. Steadily increasing in use by Spanishspeaking congregations in the United States, these sermons also have found widespread usage in places like Mexico, Colombia, Spain,
Puerto Rico, Argentina,Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and Venezuela. > http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/stw-es/
LESSON PLANS THAT WORK Providing free, weekly, lectionarybased lesson plans for young children, older children, and adults, this website houses a full three-year curriculum based on the Revised Common Lectionary. The site also includes special lessons for the commemoration of saints, special days in the church year, and external events such as the Haiti earthquake anniversary and the grand-jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri. Published by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, the lesson plans may be republished or copied at no cost by any congregation, diocese, or church-affiliated organization. (See details online.) > h ttp://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/lessons/
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COMMUNICATION SERVICES OFFERED BY THE MISSIONARY S OCIETY Building the Kingdom of God requires engaging people within and beyond The Episcopal Church in a conversation about the transformation we encounter in Jesus Christ. High-quality communication services offered to dioceses and congregations at little or no cost are among the ways the Missionary Society works to support mission and ministry at a local level in The Episcopal Church. These are some of the services we provide:
> EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG The Episcopal Church’s website had nearly 2.5 million unique visitors in the first half of 2014, averaging 16,459 page views per day. Approximately 63% are firsttime visitors. While spearheaded by the Missionary Society, the website ultimately is a partnership
with people throughout The Episcopal Church. The popular Finda-Church feature – which allows congregations to shape their entries – currently enlists more than 1,750 congregational-page editors and 22 super editors who can edit multiple local entries. In April 2014, congregations and dioceses submitted more than 385 photos in response to our call for Holy Week images for the stained glass on the homepage.
AFFORDABLE WEBSITES FOR DIOCESES AND CONGREGATIONS Since 2011, the Missionary Society has promoted affordable, easy-touse websites for congregations and dioceses, and has partnered with several vendors to offer modern, mobile, and tablet-friendly branded website templates that update automatically using RSS feeds from the Episcopal News Service
and The Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs. We provide workshops and consultations with congregations on how to use their websites to market themselves to their communities.
DAILY SCAN A daily aggregation of global, national, and local news stories featuring Episcopal churches and people, this email service of the Missionary Society reaches 1,000 subscribers each day and is shared with many others. To subscribe, visit:
Additionally, we have published two white papers for congregations on marketing and social media, each of which has been downloaded more than 2,000 times. These white papers have resulted in more than 200 phone consultations with evangelism and marketing committees and more than a dozen site visits and invitations to speak at churches, diocesan conventions, seminaries and special “digital evangelism� summits.
The Missionary Society facilitates approximately 50 crisis communication and public relations consultations with Episcopal dioceses each year.
> Social Media and The Episcopal Church
SOCIAL MEDIA
> Marketing Your Parish
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PUBLIC RELATIONS CONSULTATIONS
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Started by the Missionary Society in 2013, the blog has nearly 6,000 followers and is growing. > http://theepiscopalchurch.tumblr.com/ Facebook The official Facebook page of The Episcopal Church reaches more than 665,000 people. In 2014, our posts received more than 53,000 unique likes; 3,300 comments; 13,100 shares; and 85,000 clicks on links or images.
enhance their ability to proclaim the Good News of God in Jesus Christ. During the current triennium, these videos have received 572,000 views, which equates to 33,000 hours of content watched. An average viewer watches a little more than three videos per visit to episcopalchurch.org. Videos Created in Partnership • 6 congregational-vitality videos produced with the Diocese of Massachusetts
> https://www.facebook.com/episcopalian
>> https://vimeo.com/104717322
>> https://vimeo.com/104686190
More than 20,000 people follow The Episcopal Church on Twitter. We tweet an average of 3-4 times per day, with our evening-prayer content being the most active.
>> https://vimeo.com/104660378
> https://twitter.com/episcopalchurch
MULTIMEDIA AND VIDEO The Missionary Society creates videos featuring the inspiring work churches are doing at the local level. These videos are available to congregations as tools to
>> https://vimeo.com/104654620 >> https://vimeo.com/104654018 • Animated diocesan-convention video produced with the Diocese of Western North Carolina >> https://episcopalchurch.wistia.com/ medias/tw04qzoq1h • 4 films for the National Association of Episcopal Schools highlighting the organization’s work in inner cities
• 4 animated videos that describe the Missionary Society’s engagement of Episcopalians in the Marks of Mission
>> https://vimeo.com/65843289 >> https://vimeo.com/65844107 >> https://vimeo.com/65855467 >> https://vimeo.com/65858142
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>> http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ page/1st-mark-mission
“We Are All Missionaries,” an inspiring video that highlights the work of the Missionary Society in engaging Episcopalians in mission
>> http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ page/3rd-mark-mission >> http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ page/4th-mark-mission
>> http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/ missionary-society
>> http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ page/5th-mark-mission
TOP VIDEOS 26,463
I AM AN EPISCOPALIAN - LEIGH FOSTER 22,984
YOUNG ADULT SERVICE CORPS SERIES
19,952
BISTRO ST. MICHAEL’S
17,782
I AM AN EPISCOPALIAN - PORTIA ADNEY JERICHO ROAD
3,997
ST. MARY’S URBAN FARM
3,941
TRINITY CHURCH CLANTON, ALABAMA
2,942
OCCUPY SANDY
1,572
BLUESTONE FARMS
1,335 PLAYS
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A SAMPLE OF VIDEOS CREATED AND SHARED WITH THE WIDER CHURCH “Laundry Love,” a ministry of doing laundry and sharing a simple meal with the homeless in Santa Monica, California.
“Brother Geoffrey,” a day in the life of a 21st-century monk in the Society of St. John the Evangelist Monastery
All can be found at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/multimedia
“Bistro St. Michael’s,” about the communitybuilding work of hosting weekly dinners that St. Michael’s Episcopal Church on the Upper West Side of New York City
“COTA Seattle,” about a young, nontraditional, music and creativity-focused congregation in a neighborhood of Seattle
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GRANTS FOR PR OCL AIMING THE GOOD NEWS NEW OPPORTUNITY
$150,000
These grants assist native communities and persons throughout The Episcopal Church in developing new and innovative approaches to their ministries.
NETWORK CAPACITY BUILDING
$294,000
These grants allow grassroots networks in The Episcopal Church to expand their reach, scope, and impact for furthering mission and ministry. Recent recipients include the Episcopal Service Corps, The Episcopal Network for Stewardship, and the College for Bishops.
BLOCK GRANTS: SHARING OUR GIFTS WITH THE CHURCH
$4,250,624
Provided by the triennial budget, these grants fund diocesan expenses in Province II dioceses in the Caribbean and Europe, indigenous ministry in Province VI and VIII dioceses, Province VIII dioceses in Asia, Province IX dioceses, and the now-autonomous Churches of the Anglican Communion that once were dioceses of The Episcopal Church.
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TO TEACH, BAPTIZE, AND NURTURE
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aptism is the root of all mission. As the Presiding Bishop reminds us, Jesus’ command to his disciples to go forth into the world to baptize and make disciples of all nations is the very event from which we derive the word “mission.” We teach, baptize, and nurture new believers because Baptism is “the sacrament by which God adopts us his children and makes us members of Christ’s Body, the Church, and inheritors of the Kingdom of God.” (Book of Common Prayer, p. 858) Our joy in proclaiming the Good News and building the Kingdom of God is ultimately for the sake of the citizens of that Kingdom. The 2012 General Convention challenged The Episcopal Church to concentrate triennial work toward the Second Mark of Mission – the teaching, baptizing, and nurturing of new believers – on the sustainability of Province IX, which includes the Dioceses of Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador Central, Ecuador Litoral, Honduras, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Focusing on measurable deliverables, the Missionary Society is working with all Province IX
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dioceses to develop individual sustainability plans, with several now on target to be free from the need for General Convention support by the 2019-2022 triennium. We’re also in the midst of establishing a Province IX Development Fund, which we anticipate will be valued at $2 million by 2021. Thanks to many creative partnerships, we’re on track to exceed our triennial goals in this area. Our work to engage new groups of believers does not stop there. The Episcopal Youth Event held this past summer in Philadelphia, the Kindling conference held in Minneapolis a few weeks later for leaders working with young adults, and the campus-ministry grants
we make are among the ways the Missionary Society is working to respond to, and challenge, younger generations of disciples. Then there is our work to support seminary and theological training for indigenous populations, persons in Latin America and the Caribbean, and others who historically may not have had access to the resources necessary for formation in ministry. Nurturing all believers – the new and the old – so that they may, in turn, nurture new believers, is at the heart of being a missionary. How can we partner with you to welcome and sustain the faith of those being called each day into God’s beloved community?
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PROVINCE IX SUSTAINABILITY THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY’S PARTNERSHIP WITH PROVINCE IX LEADERS TOWARD
sustainability for these dioceses represents some of the most important work we’re doing for the future of The Episcopal Church. Early in this triennium we convened the leadership of Province IX to mutually discern a three-year plan that begins moving each diocese in the province toward future fiscal health. Partnering with these local leaders willing to make sacrifices and take risks has been an inspiring journey together. So far this triennium, we’ve worked with the Diocese of the Dominican Republic to shore up its budget and make a grant to create an endowment that will provide for self-sufficiency.
FINANCIAL We’ve worked with the Diocese of Honduras to
restructure its debt, the key step in this case toward sustainability. We’re presently working
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with the leaders of the Diocese of Ecuador Central on a plan for that diocese’s future health, and will next turn our attention to Ecuador Litoral, Colombia, and Venezuela. This work – an ongoing project that will require continued momentum through several trienni-
ums – promises to create a wholly new future for the Church in Latin America and is a prime example of how the Missionary Society, by leveraging churchwide resources and investing in local leadership, can help catalyze long-term health for The Episcopal Church.
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EPISCOPAL YOUTH EVENT Held in partnership with the Diocese of Pennsylvania, the Episcopal Youth Event took place in July, 2014 in Philadelphia. A total of 1,186 participants came from 84 dioceses of The Episcopal Church and included:
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YOUTH PARTICIPANTS ADULT LEADERS WITH DIOCESAN DELEGATIONS YOUTH VOLUNTEERS ADULT VOLUNTEERS BISHOPS
Immediately prior to the event, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society hosted a special “New Community” gathering, bringing together youth from a variety of ethnic groups to discuss reconciling all people to God and each other in Christ.
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KINDLING A conference for Episcopal leaders working in young-adult ministry on and off college campuses, Kindling took place July, 2014 in Minneapolis with a goal of equipping participants to engage young adults where they live, work, and
study, preparing them for leadership in the Church. The conference drew 97 participants from 36 dioceses, with online video content having been viewed nearly 800 times since the event.
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RISING STARS EXPERIENCE (RISE) The Missionary Society is working with local partners in dioceses and congregations to implement a ritesof-passage resource to provide a wholesome, positive learning environment for young people as an alternative to the school-to-prison pipeline. Approximately 200 participants include students, parents, guardians, mentors, hospitality-team members and volunteer presenters. Resource leaders predict that 50 congregations will engage in RISE by the end of 2015.
OFFICE OF PASTORAL DEVELOPMENT This office of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society provides direct support to the Presiding Bishop and the House of Bishops – and partners with the College for Bishops (CfB) – in the areas of episcopal formation and development; pastoral care of bishops, their families, and diocesan systems; and mediation conflicts
between bishops and diocesan leaders. In addition, the office oversees all episcopal elections by offering a manual of best practices as well as a pool of consultants for assisting dioceses having elections. (On average, there are eight to 10 episcopal elections each year.) Additionally, the Bishop for the Office of Pastoral Development serves as the Intake Officer for this Church for disciplinary procedures against bishops. The CfB offers multiple annual programs for bishops. These include the Living Our Vows course for new bishops, which comprises: the 90-Day Companion Program (support for the period from election to ordination), the New Bishops and Spouses/ Partners conference, monthly coaching, and a five-day annual residence for three years. In 2015, the weeklong June residency, will include more than 40 new bishops from The Episcopal Church, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, and Tanzania (1).
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NUEVO AMANECER
OFFICE OF TRANSITION MINISTRY
Convened by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society in August 2014, Nuevo Amanecer brought together 323 participants from across The Episcopal Church who are working to equip clergy and lay leaders in developing Latino/Hispanic ministry. Workshops included discipleship, the use of social media in evangelism, lay leadership, the integration of diverse communities, and immigration.
This office of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society accompanies individuals, lay and ordained, through their times of discernment and calling for ministry. Bishops and transition ministers can list open positions, search the database, receive training, and download helpful forms and publications. Clergy, seminarians, and lay leaders are matched by their skills with minis-
OUR JOY IN try opportunities in parishes, diocesan offices, and church-related organizations. Congregations are supported throughout the entire search process, from the listing of the position to creating the parish portfolio while providing interim and search-process resources. Currently, there are 17,453 total registered users of the database, with 479 community portfolios having been posted during the first two years of this triennium.
PROCLAIMING THE GOOD NEWS AND BUILDING THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS ULTIMATELY FOR THE SAKE OF THE CITIZENS OF THAT KINGDOM.
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GRANTS FOR TEACHING, B AP TIZING, AND NURTURING NEW BELIEVERS PROVINCE IX SUSTAINABILITY
$950,000
These grants to Province IX dioceses allow them to move towards financially sustainable models of ministry within their cultural contexts.
CAMPUS MINISTRY GRANTS
$204,348
We offer grants to establish or revitalize campus ministries and imagine new ways to reach young adults who traditionally are the least likely to seek out a campus ministry.
INDIGENOUS THEOLOGICAL TRAINING
$221,820
These grants support training for indigenous leaders in The Episcopal Church called to lay and ordained ministry.
CETALC
$482,100 These grants support the educational, theological, and formational needs of the Church in Latin America and the Caribbean, including continuing education and individual scholarships.
CONSTABLE FUND
$314,143
Prioritizing religious education, these grants support a variety of mission and ministry initiatives not otherwise funded by the triennial budget, including some of the work of the Missionary Society described in this report.
CONANT FUND
$255,790 Designated for the improvement of seminary-based theological education, these grants support research, writing, and course development undertaken by faculty.
ROANRIDGE
$412,364 These grants support the training of town and country clergy and rural Christian workers in The Episcopal Church.
SEMINARY CONSULTATION ON MISSION
$179,002
These grants support cross-cultural learning opportunities, specifically for seminarian education.
SCHOLARSHIPS
$497,193 The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society provides a variety of scholarships to Episcopalians, including those seeking seminary education, the children of missionaries, and other designated groups. Preference is given to individuals experiencing financial hardship.
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ill you seek and serve Christ in all
(Book of Common Prayer, p. 305) This familiar question from the Baptismal Covenant reminds us that, as missionaries in the 21st century, our loving service to the world involves encountering Jesus as much as it involves bringing Jesus. Through missionary service, particularly in and among the needy and vulnerable, we meet the Risen Christ and experience the transformation of our own souls even as we seek to bring healing and transformation to a hurting world. The Missionary Society strives to make missionary service available and practical for as many Episcopalians as possible. Our goal is that missionary ser-
vice be a normative experience for Episcopalians within a generation. The General Convention budget for the current triennium challenges us to make missionary service even more widely available, particularly to young people. In response, the Missionary Society is on track to double the size of the Young Adult Service Corps – our volunteer team of young-adult overseas missionaries – by the end of the triennium. Over the course of the first half of the triennium, we’ve sent 45 youngadult missionaries into the world, and have expanded the cultural and socioeconomic diversity of
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persons, loving your neighbor as yourself?”
Some of the other ways we seek and find Jesus in the world include our support for the Diocese of Haiti in its ongoing work to rebuild from the 2010 earthquake, our longstanding work to resettle refugees in various parts of the United States, our financial investment in the work of Episcopal Relief & Development, our support for the work of the Episcopal Service Corps in
bringing young-adult missionary service to American communities, and our support for federal chaplaincies in the U.S. military and the prison system. Do you long for an opportunity for missionary service in which you can share your zeal for the Kingdom of God and encounter anew the transformation of God in Jesus Christ? Do you long to make such opportunities available to all local communities in The Episcopal Church? The Missionary Society is ready to partner with you.
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the program. We’re also providing funding for experimental pilot programs to establish a “gap year” option in The Episcopal Church to support young persons ages 18 to 21 discerning their futures.
YOUNG ADULT SERVICE CORPS ( YASC)
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ETHNIC BACKGROUND OF APPLICANTS (2013-14)
PARTICIPANTS
As the Missionary Society works to double the size of The Episcopal Church’s volunteer, overseas missionary program for young adults, we’re also increasing its diversity. (Nearly one sixth of our recent applicants were from Province IX.) Here is a snapshot of YASC applicants and their service venues:
ETHNIC BACKGROUND OF APPLICANTS (2014-15)
White (non-Hispanic) African-diaspora background Asian-Pacific Islander Latino Latina from Province IX
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LONGER-TERM MISSIONARY SERVICE (EPISCOPAL VOLUNTEERS IN MISSION) More than 40 Episcopalians, from all age groups, currently are serv-ing up to three years as missionaries in 19 countries around the Anglican Communion, including Tanzania, Kenya, Haiti, South Sudan, and Jerusalem.
EPISCOPAL MIGRATION MINISTRIES (EMM) The Episcopal Church is now in its 75th year of working to resettle refugees fleeing violence or persecution in their homelands. In 2013, Episcopal Migration
Ministries, partnering with 26 Episcopal dioceses in 22 states, helped nearly 5,000 refugees build new lives in security and peace in 30 communities across the United States. During the first half of the triennium, EMM disbursed $14,920,931 in federal funds to support its programs in these dioceses. To stand with EMM and share the journey of refugees, visit the #ShareTheJourney campaign, running through the 2015 General Convention, at > http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/ sharethejourney
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ARMED SERVICES AND FEDERAL CHAPLAINCIES Episcopal federal chaplains serve those in the military, Veterans Administration hospitals, and federal prisons, providing spiritual and day-to-day support to service men and women overseas and stateside, veterans requiring medical services, and the incarcerated. Under the leadership of the Bishop Suffragan for Armed Services and Federal Ministries, our chaplains bring spiritual healing and comfort to those with no other faith resources. A great deal of the Missionary Society’s work with federal
chaplaincies is now shared with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). In partnership with the ELCA, we hosted two five-day trainings for federal chaplains and their spouses/ partners in 2013 and two in 2014. During this time, Bishop Jay Magness visited more than 35% of all active-duty chaplains at their place of work/duty stations. Recruiting numbers continue to increase, with our chaplain force up 20% since 2010. If you are interested in becoming a federal military or prison chaplain, please visit: > http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/ federal-ministries
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the soul of Haiti
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Nearly five years have passed since the devastating earthquake in Haiti that shattered lives, schools, churches, and employment in a matter of 35 terrifying seconds. With 254 schools, 37 hospitals, and 13 clinics, the Diocese of Haiti felt keenly the loss of 80% of its infrastructure. The Diocese of Haiti wasted no time in working to bring resurrection, partnering with the Missionary Society and others to lay ambitious but attainable plans to rebuild. So far, our Development Office has partnered with approximately 1,000 Episcopal churches, dioceses, seminaries, and other organizations that have contributed financially as leaders in the rebuilding of Haiti. There are so many resurrection stories in Haiti and most of them are Church-related. As one of our bishops noted:
“Only the Church can restore the soul of Haiti.� To get involved, visit >http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/haiti-more-cathedral
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SUPPORT FOR EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT Episcopalians throughout the Church are proud of the work of Episcopal Relief & Development, now in its 75th year of responding to disasters and empowering people to create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and disease. Among the ways the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society supports the work of Episcopal Relief & Development is through the cost-free contribution of office space in New York City and the contribution of 0.7% of the churchwide budget to Episcopal Relief & Development programming.
EPISCOPAL SERVICE CORPS (ESC) The Episcopal Service Corps is a network of local programs that engage young adults in missionary service in communities in the United States. While not a part of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society or subject to DFMS governance, ESC is a longtime partner that we currently support through a $200,000 grant designated by the triennial budget.
GOOD FRIDAY OFFERING The Missionary Society annually organizes the Good Friday Offering to support the ministries of the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East in education, health care, and parish development. Bringing together congregations throughout The Episcopal Church, the Good Friday Offering has sent nearly $1 million to the Church in the Holy Land and surrounding areas during this triennium.
THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY IS READY TO PARTNER WITH YOU. GRANTS FOR RESP ONDING TO HUMAN NEED BY LOVING SERVICE
GAP-YEAR PILOT PROGRAM
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“T
he Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor,” Jesus reads from the prophet Isaiah in the Nazareth synagogue shortly after his Baptism. “He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (Luke 4: 18-19) The very first words Jesus speaks to the world after he is baptized and tempted by the devil are a reminder that we are baptized in order to be sent, and that we are sent to in order to seek justice and transform the structures of the world that keep people poor, in prison, and oppressed. The Missionary Society partners with Episcopalians to live into the Fourth Mark of Mission – the transformation of unjust structures of society – in exciting and innovative ways. The 2012 General Convention designated poverty in the
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An increased focus on racial justice and reconciliation also has characterized the Missionary Society’s work this triennium. In 2013, we convened a first-of-its-kind churchwide summit in Jackson, Mississippi on “The State of Racism,” and in 2014, after securing Executive Council approval for new staff work on racial justice and reconciliation, responded nimbly and dynamically to the events in Ferguson, Missouri in partnership with the Diocese of Missouri and its clergy and lay leaders. In baptism, we promise to “strive for justice and peace” as a consequence of our adoption into the family of God. The Missionary Society is ready to partner with all Episcopalians seeking to live out this vocation of their discipleship. .
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United States as a focus area for the present triennium, and the Missionary Society is working to put hands to ploughs by engaging at least one in four Episcopalians in service to the poor by the end of the triennium. We’ve built a brand new online-networking platform to draw together those at the grassroots level working to fight poverty and are pioneering new models of Asset-Based Community Development and advocacy at the local level, where they are most effective. We do this both for the sake of the poor and for the sake of our own souls, as it is through ministry with and among the poor that we encounter Jesus.
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NETWORKING EPISCOPALIANS FOR MISSION In response to requests from grassroots networks of Episcopalians and members of the Executive Council, the Missionary Society has developed Mission Centered, a new online-networking platform to link Episcopalians engaged in mission work at a local level and to allow them to communicate their successes, challenges, gifts, and needs with one another and the wider Church. After approximately four months of trial use
with select partners, the platform will be launched churchwide in January 2015. Funded primarily through the budgets for the Fourth and Fifth Marks of Mission (unjust structures and care for creation), the site will also include community-gathering space for work related to the proclamation of the Good News of the Kingdom (Mark of Mission 1) and loving service in response to human need (Mark of Mission 3). We aspire to build it out eventually to include all mission work undertaken in The Episcopal Church. The site also will include an asset map of mission work across the Church developed in collaboration with Episcopal Relief & Development.
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PILOT PROJECTS INVESTED IN BY THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY:
THE 32ND AVENUE JUBILEE CENTER in Denver, a predominately Latino/Hispanic congregation seeking ways to reach out to a re-gentrifying community
LUTHERAN-EPISCOPAL ADVOCACY in Nevada,
in order to equip advocacy capacity building in a unique partnership between an Episcopal diocese and two ELCA synods
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The Missionary Society, in partnership with the School of Theology of the University of the South (Sewanee), and Episcopal Relief & Development convened a churchwide consultation to develop an Episcopal curriculum for Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and to create a process of training trainers to partner with local communities engaged in ABCD. Building on this, we hosted a training event with representatives from 10 dioceses at Wintertalk, an annual meeting sponsored by Province VIII in which Native Episcopalians explore questions of ministry together.
Through a competitive process that drew interest throughout The Episcopal Church, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society awarded two Justice and Advocacy Fellowships to Episcopalians for the purpose of engaging in yearlong, domestic-poverty focused mission work.
JUBILEE MINISTRY In addition to more than 20 traditional grants of $850 to $1500, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society awarded two large-scale development grants: $35,000 to St. Paul’s Church, Kansas City, Kansas for
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an innovative program to provide resource development for skills-training for teens and young adults; and $32,500 to St. John’s House Learning and Development Center, which strives to break the cycle of poverty by strengthening every child’s self-esteem, selfconfidence, interpersonal skills, and attitudes toward education. Dioceses with ministries receiving Jubilee grants are Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Colombia, Haiti, Iowa, Kansas, Lexington, New Jersey, Newark, Northern Indiana, Northern Michigan, Olympia, Southwest Florida, Spokane, Western Louisiana, West Missouri, and West Virginia.
ADVOCACY to CHALLENGE DOMESTIC POVERTY CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 12-14, 2014
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BISHOPS’ AND YOUNG ADULTS’ ADVOCACY PARTNERSHIP In collaboration with the Bishops Working for a Just World coalition, we convened a conference for young adults and bishops to equip them to be effective advocates
for issues surrounding domestic poverty. The conference brought bishops and young adults from nearly 20 dioceses, in all eight U.S. provinces, to Washington, D.C. for advocacy training and to meet with their congressional representatives on issues such as education,
prison reform, nutrition, rural poverty, and the federal budget.
EPISCOPAL PUBLIC POLICY NETWORK (EPPN) A group of 25,000 Episcopalians convened by the Missionary Society and committed to living the Baptismal Covenant’s commitment to strive for justice and peace, the EPPN led significant churchwide Lenten advocacy campaigns around violence (2013) and peace in the Holy Land (2014), engaging the network in grassroots advocacy and education surrounding these two topics. To sign up, visit: http://advocacy.episcopalchurch.org.
FEDERAL ADVOCACY So far this triennium, our Office of Government Relations has facilitated or participated in more than 500 congressional or administration-level advocacy meetings focused on challenging unjust structures of society and peacemaking at home and abroad. Participants have included the Presiding Bishop, diocesan bishops and other
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In the wake of the 2014 upheaval in Ferguson, Missouri that thrust Americans into a discussion of racial disparity, division, and reconciliation, the Missionary Society responded in three phases:
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In the immediate aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown, the Missionary Society provided immediate support to, and coordination with, the response efforts of the Diocese of Missouri. In addition to building network connections and providing personnel to support on the-ground work, we awarded a $30,000 grant to the diocese, and secured an additional $10,000 from Episcopal Relief & Development, to provide for recovery, rebuilding, and reconciliation.
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As events unfolded between August and November, we gathered, published, and publicized resources for teaching, healing, and reconciliation composed by diverse voices throughout The Episcopal Church. These are available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/ferguson-way-forward and http://advocacy.episcopalchurch.org/episcopal/AWayForward.
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representatives, leaders of the House of Deputies, grassroots Episcopalians visiting Washington, overseas visitors, and staff.
STATE PUBLIC POLICY NETWORKS The Missionary Society has supported State Public Policy Networks, or the development of new networks, in nine states. Dioceses represented include Colorado, Connecticut, East Carolina, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Newark, New Jersey, Nevada, North Carolina, Southern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Virginia, and Western North Carolina. We are doing this work in partnership with the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America wherever possible, and are on track to meet our goal of a dozen new networks by the end of the triennium. (Note: This work encompasses funding from the budgets for both the Fourth and Fifth Marks of Mission.)
FIFTY YEARS LATER - THE STATE OF RACISM IN AMERICA EVENT The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, in partnership with the Diocese of Mississippi, hosted this important churchwide
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conversation on race in November 2013. The first day of the conference drew significant online traffic on episcopalchurch.org, with 6,300 visits. Nearly 8,000 unique visitors have viewed the forum online approximately 10,000 times. Videos of panel discussions and keynote addresses have been played approximately 2,500 times. There were more than 1,500 connections to the live stream, with many of those individual connections representing several hundred viewers.
NEW COMMUNITY Building on momentum begun during the last triennium, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society convened the second New Community gathering in March 2014 in North Carolina. Themed “Together, Advancing the Sacred Dream,� the gathering provided an opportunities for clergy and lay people to explore opportunities for mission and advocacy in ethnic ministries.
FORUM ON CIVIL DISCOURSE
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The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, in partnership with the Diocese of Pennsylvania and historic Christ Church in Philadelphia, convened an October 2014 churchwide forum on “Civil Discourse: Finding Common Ground for the Greater Good.” Featuring two panels, one on civil discourse and faith and the other on civil discourse in politics and policy, the 90minute forum was webcast live to the wider Church, and made available on demand afterward, receiving more than 1,700 views. In addition to the Presiding Bishop, panelists included noted members of the news media, religious leaders from a variety of faith traditions, academic leaders, and noted advocates for civil discourse in politics and policy.
Representing the voice of The Episcopal Church at the United Nations, the Domestic and Foriegn Missionary Society in 2014 obtained official consultative status in the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). This important designation allows us more closely to link the voices of Episcopalians and Anglicans around the world to UN deliberations on issues such as global poverty and hunger, peace and conflict, the rights and wellbeing of women and girls, human trafficking, youth and young adults, and indigenous concerns. In turn, we work to connect Episcopalians in our Church to those voices and debates. For example, in response to a resolution of the 2012 General Convention, we supported the global with 16 days of guest
THE DOMESTIC AND FORIEGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY OBTAINED OFFICIAL CONSULTATIVE STATUS IN THE UN’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, IN 2014.
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blogs and a new gender-violence resource hub on episcopalchurch. org. In response to another resolution of the 2012 Convention, we organized a 2013 churchwide conversation and online forum on human trafficking, created new anti-trafficking resources for Episcopalians, and began creating a new database of Episcopal ministries and interested partners.
HUMMAN TRAFFICKING SUMMIT The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, in partnership
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with the Diocese of Long Island and several grassroots Asiamerica community groups, hosted a “Summit to End Modern Slavery: Communities Mobilizing Against Human Trafficking” in May 2014. Bringing together more than 300 participants, the summit led to the formation of new coalitions working against human trafficking and modern slavery through education and awareness, empowerment for victims and survivors, and relationship with government agencies.
GRANTS FOR TRANSFORMING UNJUST STRU CTURES OF SOCIETY DOMESTIC POVERTY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
$150,000
This process of discernment helps congregations and other bodies identify their strengths and translate them into ministry.
DOMESTIC POVERTY FELLOWSHIPS
$48,000
These stipendiary fellowships support individuals engaged in service and learning toward domesticpoverty leadership in partnership with an Episcopal diocese, congregation, or other organization.
JUBILEE MINISTRY
$100,000 (TRIENNIUM TO DATE) The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society provides grants to Jubilee ministries ap-
proved by the Executive Council that engage Episcopalians in work with poor and oppressed people, wherever they are found, to meet basic human needs and to build a just society.
INCARNATIONAL POVERTY ENGAGEMENT
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$2,650,340 The United Thank Offering provides funds for programs that address compelling human needs by supporting the alleviation of poverty, both domestically and internationally.
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e are mortal, formed of the earth, and to earth shall we return,” we pray in the Burial Rite (Book of Common Prayer, p. 499), a reminder of our place in the wide sweep of God’s creation, the destiny we share with the earth itself, and God’s understanding of the sanctity of the dust from which we are made in the divine image. The Fifth Mark of Mission sharpens our awareness that missionary service requires working for the right ordering not just of the human family but also of the whole creation in which humanity resides. Today, as climate change exacerbates deadly poverty around the world, and the poorest communities even in the United States bear the brunt of environmental degradation, it has never been more clear that the future of “this fragile earth, our island home” (Book of Common Prayer, p. 370) and the future of the human race are one and the same.
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Recognizing the close relationship between economic poverty and environmental sustainability, a great deal of the Missionary Society’s triennial work on the Fifth Mark of Mission is closely linked to our work on the Fourth Mark of Mission. The development of a networking platform for churchwide mission, for example, drew initial inspiration and funding from the General Convention budget for each Mission Mark. Similarly, our work toward creating a state-based advocacy structure in The Episcopal Church has grounding in both Marks. We’re driven in this work by the understanding that safeguarding the integrity of creation will require substantial cultural shifts in the world around us, and that the only way The Episcopal Church can contribute positively to these shifts is through engaging every Episcopalian in missionary service. Early in this triennium, we partnered with Lutherans to convene an international summit on climate change in Washington that was made accessible to the wider Church online. In 2015, we will convene both an online consultation to cultivate seminary and theological leadership on environmental issues as well as a thought-leadership live event and online forum in Los Angeles entitled “Climate Change: A Community Response.” Moreover, we award grants to dioceses in which innovative environmental work is taking place, and is investing in new and creative ecumenical partnerships for ecological advocacy and witness. Together, we’re working to build a churchwide movement for the care of creation. We’re eager to hear your ideas and to count you as a partner of the Missionary Society.
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In addition to the state-advocacy networks we’re working to build across The Episcopal Church (see Mark 4, p.51), we’re working to establish and strengthen new ecumenical partnerships for environmental advocacy. On behalf of The Episcopal Church and in collaboration with 36 other denominations, the Missionary Society helped launch a new pan-Christian organization called Creation Justice Ministries to resource and drive an ecumenical response to the safeguarding of God’s creation. The new organization supports the state-level advocacy efforts of the Missionary Society, fosters interdenominational discernment and partnership on tough issues such as fossil-fuel investment, and assists local communities exploring the links between poverty and environmental justice. In addition to this work, our Office of Government Relations in Washington, D.C. has worked
to communicate to policymakers the grassroots support of Episcopalians for new carbon-emission rules initiated by the Environmental Protection Agency and new regulations on ozone, both announced in 2014. Additionally, in partnership with the Gwich’in Indians who live in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve in Alaska – approximately 90% of whom are Episcopalians – we’ve worked with the White House to create a comprehensive-conservation plan to protect that sacred land from drilling for years to come.
BUILDING GLOBAL AND ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIPS The Missionary Society supported the Presiding Bishop and the Archbishop and Primate of the Church of Sweden (Lutheran) in co-convening an ecumenical and multi-national summit on climate change in Washington, D.C. in May 2013. Summit participants spent substantial time in conversation about global cooperation to stem climate
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change with senior advisers to the president, congressional leaders, and members of the diplomatic community. Episcopalians who could not attend in person, along with others around the world, connected to the summit live online. This event built on the work of a thought-leadership event convened by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society at the end of the last triennium that featured the Presiding Bishop, then-President of the House of Deputies, and respected environmental experts discussing the link between poverty and the environment.
CONFRONTING POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION TOGETHER In support of innovative ecumenical leadership, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society provided a grant to the Diocese of West Virginia to support the Building a Bright Future for West Virginia project, a collaboration with the West Virginia Council of Churches that explores the economic intersection between poverty and environmental justice
in coal country and begins working toward a better future
GLOBAL ANGLICAN PARTNERSHIPS In support of pan-Anglican partnership on environmental leadership, we provided a grant to the Diocese of Olympia to support the diocese’s Caring for All Creation project in partnership with the Diocese of the Southern Philippines. This dynamic initiative fuses young-adult formation and environmental leadership in both The Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FELLOWSHIPS Through a competitive process that drew interest throughout The Episcopal Church, we awarded two Justice and Advocacy Fellowships to Episcopalians for the purpose of engaging in multi-year, eco-justice-focused mission work.
FORMATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE The Missionary Society produced a special curriculum on water usage based on the work of Episcopal Relief & Development in this area.
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These grants support diocesan, congregational, and other partners of the Missionary Society in project-based eco-justice work.
These stipendiary fellowships support individuals engaged in service and environmental-leadership training in partnership with an Episcopal diocese, congregation, or other organization.
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$380 million in missionary Society assets* $120 million held in 82 funds owned by organizations across The Episcopal Church. * As of November 30, 2014.
FINANCE The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society’s Finance Office supports each of the Marks of Mission daily with banking, accounting, and payroll activities. As of November 30, 2014, assets of the Society were more than $380 million, including $120 million held in 82 funds owned by organizations across The Episcopal Church. A service of the Missionary Society available to all Episcopal congregations, dioceses and other Episcopal-affiliated organizations is the opportunity to co-invest with us. Our portfolio is diversified and professionally managed by 15 external investment managers
with established track records. Performance over time has been exceptional, averaging around 8% annually over the last 10 and 20 years after all fees and expenses and ranking in the top 20% of all foundations with assets over $50 million as tracked by the InvestorForce Performance Reporting Network (subsidiary of MSCI Inc.).
DEVELOPMENT Building the Office Beginning with hiring for six new positions, the Missionary Society established the Development Office with a focus on donors with at least $100,000 in giving capacity. As part of the start-up process, we purchased and refined an indus-
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try-standard database to serve the long-term development needs of the Church and convened an advisory council of philanthropists and development experts. Fundraising To date, the Missionary Society has raised $5.425 million in total gifts and pledges to for Haiti and the Navajoland Area Mission. This has involved researching and drafting cases-for-support for six separate multimillion-dollar projects, partnering with eight different bishops to lead six pilgrimages to Haiti, drafting and implementing an annual fundraising plan for Navajoland, assisting each area with website and online services, and creating a U.S.-Haiti
database detailing more than 600 relationships. We’ve also researched prospects for several dioceses engaged in capital campaigns and advised various Episcopal entities and mission partners on fundraising and board development. Education As part of our service to the wider Church, for the past two years, the Missionary Society has conducted annual fundraising workshops for global groups of Episcopalians and Anglicans, designed regional workshops on research for parishes and dioceses, and created a fundraising curriculum for the College for Bishops.
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The Missionary Society exists to support and serve Episcopalians engaged in mission where they live and work. Recognizing the local level as the foundation of mission, the Diocesan Partnership program provides intentional linkages between dioceses and the churchwide ministry supported by the Missionary Society. The program has two goals: to make resources available at the local level, and to build networks and partnerships that connect people across geography. In the first 18 months of the program’s existence, we’ve listened and learned a great deal about how best to cultivate close relationships between churchwide
ministries and dioceses. Mission and ministry are different in every context, as are the needs the Missionary Society can help meet. Through collaborative dialogue and consultation with diocesan leaders, we’re working to support local vision and mission outcomes in ways we never have before. Each diocese has an assigned staff member to act as the Diocesan Partnership Program represent-ative, serving as a link, liaison, consultant andambassador. Through more than three-dozen staff representatives, we have been present for nearly 100 diocesan conventions, ministry fairs, clergy conferences, and
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other gatherings. Staff have addressed conventions and assemblies, shared videos, distributed information, and been available to address inquiries. But mostly they have met and talked with the people of God who are engaging in God’s mission. Their role has been the ministry of witness and support. Areas of substantial passion and collaborative witness to emerge from our work with bishops and dioceses include: deeper partner ship around congregational development; formation of clergy and lay leadership; grants, scholarship, and other available funding; service programs for young adults; and calls for prayer.
In addition to financial resources and staff support, we can help with demographical and statistical data; the development of strategy for church starts and Mission Enterprise Zones; campus ministry; outreach to historically underrepresented communities; support for websites and social media; and consultation on public relations and crisis communication. But these are just some of the ways we can partner. We’d love to hear from you about others. For more information contact Bishop Sauls at:
SSauls@episcopalchurch.org.
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TITLE + CONTACT MISSIONER, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ADVOCACY ENGAGEMENT
ALABAMA
— Province 4 —
CWYNDER@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG WYNDER, CHARLES
(212) 716-6169 DOMESTIC POLICY ANALYST, OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
ALASKA
— Province 8 —
JHAFNER@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG HAFNER, JOYCE
(202) 547-7300 MISSIONER, ASIAMERICAN MINISTRIES
ALBANY
— Province 2 —
WVERGARA@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5344 VERGARA, FRED
OFFICER, YOUTH MINISTRIES
ARIZONA
— Province 8 —
BSKOV@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6074 SKOV, BRONWYN DEPUTY, ECUMENICAL AND INTERRELIGIOUS COLLABORATION
ARKANSAS
— Province 7 —
MROSE@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG ROSE, MARGARET
(212) 922-5354
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT MISSIONER, CHURCH PLANTING AND MINISTRY REDEVELOPMENT
ATLANTA
— Province 4 —
TBRACKETT@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG BRACKETT, TOM
(212) 716-6009 PROGRAM MANAGER, EPISCOPAL MIGRATION MINISTRIES
BETHLEHEM
— Province 3 —
ADUVALL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG DUVALL, ALLISON
(212) 716-6027 OFFICER, MISSION PERSONNEL AND AFRICA
CALIFORNIA
— Province 8 —
RMATHEWS@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MATHEWS, RANJIT
(212) 716-6072 MISSIONER, BLACK MINISTRIES
CENTRAL FLORIDA — Province 4 —
AIFILL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5343 IFILL, ANGELA
OFFICER, MISSION COMMUNICATION
CENTRAL GULF COAST
MBRENNAN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG
— Province 4 —
(212) 716-6223 BRENNAN, MARY
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CENTRAL NEW YORK
— Province 2 —
LBELLAMY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG BELLAMY, LISA
(212) 716- 6001 SENIOR OFFICER, HUMAN RESOURCES
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
PHOLLEY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG
— Province 3 —
(212) 716-6035 HOLLEY, PATRICIA
MISSIONER, DOMESTIC POVERTY
CHICAGO
— Province 5 —
MSTEVENSON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6108 STEVENSON, MARK
OFFICER, LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
COLUMBIA
— Province 9 —
GMCQUEEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MCQUEEN, GLENDA
011-507-6672-5835 MANAGER, DIGITAL MARKETING AND ADVERTISING
COLORDO
— Province 6 —
JDELL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG DELL, JAKE
(212) 716-6264
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT OFFICER, CONGREGATIONAL RESEARCH
CONNECTICUT
— Province 1 —
KHADAWAY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5331 HADAWAY, KIRK
CONVOCATION OF EPISCOPAL CHURCHES IN EUROPE
— Province 2 —
EDITOR/REPORTER, EPISCOPAL NEWS SERVICE MDAVIES@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG DAVIES, MATT
44-751-580-5905 MANAGER, DIGITAL MARKETING AND ADVERTISING
DALLAS
— Province 7 —
JDELL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG DELL, JAKE
(212) 716-6264 OFFICER, GLOBAL RELATIONS
DELAWARE
— Province 3 —
LMAIN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6128 MAIN, LYNNAIA
OFFICER, LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
DOMINCAN REPUBLIC
— Province 9 —
GMCQUEEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MCQUEEN, GLENDA
011-507-6672-5835
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STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT MAJOR GIFT OFFICER, DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
EAST CAROLINA
— Province 4 —
VMANLEY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MANLEY, VICTORIA
(212) 716-6178 OFFICER, MISSION COMMUNICATION
EAST TENNESSEE
MBRENNAN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG
— Province 4 —
(212) 716-6223 BRENNAN, MARY
DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCES
EASTERN MICHIGAN — Province 8 —
JCOLON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6331 COLÓN, JOHN
DOMESTIC POLICY ANALYST, OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
EASTERN OREGON — Province 3 —
JHAFNER@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG HAFNER, JAYCE
(202) 547-7300 MISSIONER, ASIAMERICAN MINISTRIES
EASTON
— Province 5 —
WVERGARA@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5344 VERGARA, FRED
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT COORDINATOR, UNITED THANK OFFERING
EAU CLAIRE
— Province 5 —
HMELTON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5130 MELTON, HEATHER
OFFICER, LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
ECUADOR CENTRAL — Province 9 —
GMCQUEEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MCQUEEN, GLENDA
011-507-6672-5835 OFFICER, LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
ECUADOR LITORAL — Province 3 —
GMCQUEEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MCQUEEN, GLENDA
011-507-6672-5835 OFFICER, MISSION PERSONNEL AND AFRICA
EL CAMINO REAL — Province 3 —
RMATHEWS@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MATHEWS, RANJIT
(212) 716-6072 MISSIONER, RACIAL RECONCILIATION
FLORIDA
— Province 4 —
HKIM@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (206) 399-7771 KIM, HEIDI
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STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT COORDINATOR, UNITED THANK OFFERING
FOND DU LAC
— Province 5 —
HMELTON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5130 MELTON, HEATHER
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF COMMUNICATION
FORT WORTH
— Province 7 —
ARUDIG@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5385 RUDIG, ANNE
MISSIONER, CHURCH PLANTING AND MINISTRY REDEVELOPMENT
GEORGIA
— Province 4 —
TBRACKETT@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG BRACKETT, TOM
(212) 716-6009 DIRECTOR, INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AND BANKING
HAITI
— Province 2 —
MARGARETHCDEB@DFMS.ORG CROSNIER DE BELLAISTRE, MARGARETH
(212) 922-5293
OFFICER, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC & ANGLICAN RELATIONS
HAWAII
— Province 8 —
PNG@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG NG, PETER
(212) 716-6317
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT OFFICER, LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
HONDURAS
— Province 9—
GMCQUEEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MCQUEEN, GLENDA
011-507-6672-5835 MANAGER, DONOR RELATIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS
IDAHO
— Province 8 —
MKEET@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG KEET, MAGGY
(212) 716-6063 OFFICER, MISSION PERSONNEL
INDIANAPOLIS
— Province 5—
DCOPLEY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5461 COPLEY, DAVID
DEPUTY, ECUMENICAL AND INTERRELIGIOUS COLLABORATION
IOWA
— Province 6—
MROSE@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG ROSE, MARGARET
(212) 922-5354 OFFICER, GLOBAL NETWORKING
KANSAS
— Province 7 —
EBOE@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6381 BOE, ELIZABETH
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STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT MISSIONER, RACIAL RECONCILIATION
KENTUCKY
— Province 4 —
HKIM@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (206) 399-7771 KIM, HEIDI
MISSIONER, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ADVOCACY ENGAGEMENT
LEXINGTON
— Province 4 —
CWYNDER@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG WYNDER, CHARLES
(212) 716-6169 OFFICER, PUBLIC AFFAIRS
LONG ISLAND
— Province 2 —
NRFOX@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6080 FOX, NEVA RAE
OFFICER, PUBLIC AFFAIRS
LOS ANGELES
— Province 8 —
NRFOX@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6080 FOX, NEVA RAE
OFFICER, MISSION COMMUNICATION
LOUISIANA
— Province 4 —
MBRENNAN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6223 BRENNAN, MARY
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT OFFICER, YOUNG ADULT AND CAMPUS MINISTRY
MAINE
— Province 1—
MANGELL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG ANGELL, MICHAEL
(212) 716-6094 OFFICER, GLOBAL RELATIONS
MARYLAND
— Province 3 —
LMAIN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6128 MAIN, LYNNAIA
STAFF ASSISTANT/OFFICE MANAGER, OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
MASSACHUSETTS — Province 1—
LBROEMEL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG LACY BROEMEL
(202) 547-7300 MISSIONER, DOMESTIC POVERTY
MICHIGAN
— Province 5—
MSTEVENSON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6108 STEVENSON, MARK
OFFICER, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC & ANGLICAN RELATIONS
MICRONESIA
— Province 8 —
PNG@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG NG. PETER
(212) 716-6317
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STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT MISSIONER, DOMESTIC POVERTY
MILWAUKEE
— Province 5 —
MSTEVENSON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6108 STEVENSON, MARK
MISSIONER, INDIGENOUS MINISTRIES
MINNESOTA
— Province 6 —
SEAGLEHEART@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6038 EAGLE HEART, SARA
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
MISSISSIPPI
— Province 4 —
KMOORE@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MOORE, KIM
(212) 716-6003 OFFICER, YOUNG ADULT AND CAMPUS MINISTRY
MISSOURI
— Province 5 —
MANGELL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG ANGELL, MICHAEL
(212) 716-6094 OFFICER, MISSION PERSONNEL AND AFRICA
MONTANA
— Province 6 —
MROSE@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG ROSE, MARGARET
(212) 922-5354
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT OFFICER, MAJOR GIFTS
NAVAJOLAND AREA MISSION
KWIBREW@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG
— Province 8—
(212) 716-6179 WIBREW, KAREN
OPERATIONS MANAGER, COMMUNICATION
NEBRASKA
— Province 6 —
BDAVID@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6059 DAVID, BERNICE
MANAGER, DONOR RELATIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS
NEVADA
— Province 8—
MKEET@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG KEET, MAGGY
(212) 716-6063 DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCES
NEW HAMPSHIRE — Province 1—
JCOLON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6331 COLÓN, JOHN
SENIOR OFFICER, HUMAN RESOURCES
NEW JERSEY
— Province 2 —
PHOLLEY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6035 HOLLEY, PATRICIA
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STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT OFFICER, PUBLIC AFFAIRS
NEW YORK
— Province 2 —
NRFOX@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6080 FOX, NEVA RAE
PROGRAM MANAGER, EPISCOPAL MIGRATION MINISTRIES
NEWARK
— Province 2 —
ADUVALL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG DUVALL, ALLISON
(212) 922-5385 MISSIONER, CHURCH PLANTING AND MINISTRY REDEVELOPMENT
NORTH CAROLINA — Province 4 —
TBRACKETT@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG BRACKETT, TOM
(212) 716-6009 EDITOR/WRITER , EPISCOPAL NEWS SERVICE
NORTH DAKOTA — Province 6 —
LWILSON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG WILSON, LYNETTE
(212) 716-6166 OFFICER, MISSION PERSONNEL AND AFRICA
NORTHERN INDIANA — Province 8 —
RMATHEWS@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MATHEWS, RANJIT
(212) 716-6072
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT COORDINATOR, UNITED THANK OFFERING
NORTHERN INDIANA — Province 5—
HMELTON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5130 MELTON, HEATHER
EDITOR/REPORTER, EPISCOPAL NEWS SERVICE
NORTHERN MICHIGAN
— Province 5 —
MFSCHJONBERG@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG SCHJONBERG, MARY FRANCES
(212) 716-6314 OFFICER, YOUTH MINISTRIES
NORTHWEST TEXAS — Province 7—
BSKOV@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6074 SKOV, BRONWYN
PROGRAM MANAGER, EPISCOPAL MIGRATION MINISTRIES
NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — Province 3—
ADUVALL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG DUVALL, ALLISON
(212) 716-6027 OFFICER, CONGREGATIONAL RESEARCH
OHIO
— Province 5 —
KHADAWAY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5331 HADAWAY, KIRK
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STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT MISSIONER, INDIGENOUS MINISTRIES
OKLAHOMA
— Province 7 —
SEAGLEHEART@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6038 EAGLE HEART, SARA
OFFICER, MAJOR GIFTS
OLYMPIA
— Province 8 —
KWIBREW@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6179 WIBREW, KAREN
OFFICER, LATINO MINISTRIES
OREGON
— Province 8 —
AGUILLEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6073 GUILLÉN, ANTHONY
DIRECTOR, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
PENNSYLVANIA
— Province 3 —
ABAUMGARTEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (202) 547-7300 BAUMGARTEN, ALEX
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF COMMUNICATION
PITTSBURGH
— Province 3 —
ARUDIG@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5385 RUDIG, ANNE
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT OFFICER, LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
PUERTO RICO
— Province 9—
GMCQUEEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MCQUEEN, GLENDA
011-507-6672-5835 MANAGER, MULTIMEDIA SERVICES
RHODE ISLAND
— Province 1 —
MCOLLINS@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6018 COLLINS, MIKE
OPERATIONS MANAGER, COMMUNICATION
RIO GRANDE
— Province 7—
BDAVID@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6059 DAVID, BERNICE
MISSIONER, ASIAMERICAN MINISTRIES
ROCHESTER
— Province 2—
WVERGARA@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5344 VERGARA, FRED
OFFICER, LATINO MINISTRIES
SAN DIEGO
— Province 8 —
AGUILLEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6073 GUILLÉN, ANTHONY
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STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF COMMUNICATION
SAN JOAQUIN
— Province 8 —
ARUDIG@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5385 RUDIG, ANNE
LEGAL COUNSEL
SOUTH CAROLINA — Province 4 —
PNIX@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6173 NIX, PAUL
EDITOR/WRITER, EPISCOPAL NEWS SERVICE
SOUTH DAKOTA
— Province 6 —
LWILSON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG WILSON, LYNETTE
(212) 716-6166 MISSIONER, BLACK MINISTRIES
SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
AIFILL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG
— Province 4 —
(212) 922-5343 IFILL, ANGELA
OFFICER, MISSION PERSONNEL
SOUTHERN OHIO — Province 5 —
DCOPLEY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5461 COPLEY, DAVID
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT OFFICER, MISSION PERSONNEL
SOUTHERN OHIO — Province 3—
DCOPLEY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5461 COPLEY, DAVID
IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE POLICY ANALYST, OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
SOUTHERN VIRGINIA
— Province 4— CONWAY, KATIE
KCONWAY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (202) 547-7300 MISSIONER, BLACK MINISTRIES
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
AIFILL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG
— Province 3—
(212) 922-5343 IFILL, ANGELA
IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE POLICY ANALYST, OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA — Province 8—
CONWAY, KATIE
KCONWAY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (202) 547-7300 MANAGER, DONOR RELATIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS
SPOKANE
— Province 5 —
MKEET@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG KEET, MAGGY
(212) 716-6063
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STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT OFFICER, MISSION PERSONNEL
SPRINGFIELD
— Province 5 —
DCOPLEY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 922-5461 COPLEY, DAVID
OFFICER, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC & ANGLICAN RELATIONS
TAIWAN
— Province 8 —
PNG@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG NG, PETER
(212) 716-6317 OFFICER, MAJOR GIFTS
TENNESSEE
— Province 4 —
VMANLEY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6178 MANLEY, VICTORIA
MANAGER, DIGITAL MARKETING AND ADVERTISING
TEXAS
— Province 7 —
JDELL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG DELL, JAKE
(212) 716-6264 LEGAL COUNSEL
UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA
PNIX@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG
— Province 4 —
(212) 716-6173 NIX, PAUL
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT OFFICER, PUBLIC AFFAIRS
UTAH
— Province 8—
NRFOX@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6080 FOX, NEVA RAE
OFFICER, LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
VENEZUELA
— Province 9 —
GMCQUEEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG MCQUEEN, GLENDA
011-507-6672-5835 DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCES
VERMONT
— Province 1—
JCOLON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6331 COLON, JOHN
SENIOR OFFICER
VIRGIN ISLANDS — Province 2—
PHOLLEY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212)716-6035 HOLLEY, PATRICIA
PROGRAM MANAGER, EPISCOPAL MIGRATION MINISTRIES
VIRGINIA
— Province 3 —
ADUVALL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG DUVALL, ALLISON
(212) 716-6027
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STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT DIRECTOR, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
WASHINGTON
— Province 3 —
ABAUMGARTEN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (202) 547-7300 BAUMGARTEN, ALEX
DOMESTIC POLICY ANALYST, OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
WEST MISSOURI — Province 7 —
JHAFNER@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG HAFNER, JAYCE
(202) 547-7300 MISSIONER, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ADVOCACY ENGAGEMENT
WEST TENNESSEE — Province 4 —
CWYNDER@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG WYNDER, CHARLES
(212) 716-6169 MISSIONER, INDIGENOUS MINISTRIES
WEST TEXAS
— Province 7 —
SEAGLEHEART@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6038 EAGLE HEART, SARA
IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE POLICY ANALYST, OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
WEST VIRGINIA
— Province 3 — CONWAY, KATIE
KCONWAY@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (202) 547-7300 OPERATIONS MANAGER, COMMUNICATION
WESTERN KANSAS — Province 7—
BDAVID@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6059 DAVID, BERNICE
DIOCESE
STAFF
TITLE + CONTACT EDITOR/WRITER, EPISCOPAL NEWS SERVICE
WESTERN LOUISIANA
— Province 7 —
LWILSON@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG WILSON, LYNETTE
(212) 716-6166 EDITOR/REPORTER, EPISCOPAL NEWS SERVICE
WEST MASSACHUSETTS — Province 1—
MFSCHJONBERG@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG SCHJONBERG, MARY FRANCES
(212) 716-6314 OFFICER, YOUNG ADULT AND CAMPUS MINISTRY
WESTERN MICHIGAN
— Province 5—
MANGELL@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG ANGELL, MICHAEL
(212) 716-6094 OFFICER, GLOBAL RELATIONS
WESTERN NEW YORK
LMAIN@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG
— Province 2 —
(212) 716-6128 MAIN, LYNNAIA
MISSIONER, RACIAL RECONCILIATION
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
HKIM@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG
— Province 4 —
(206) 399-7771 KIM, HEIDI
OFFICER, GLOBAL NETWORKING
WYOMING
— Province 6 —
EBOE@EPISCOPALCHURCH.ORG (212) 716-6381 BOE, ELIZABETH
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THE FOLLOWING PAGES ILLUSTRATE BY DIOCESE HOW THE Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society has worked during the current triennium to share The Episcopal Church’s treasure for the sake of mission. While no list like this can ever be truly comprehensive, the information that follows provides a snapshot of two things:
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how churchwide mission supports local mission, even more importantly, how churchwide mission allows the members of The Episcopal Church, acting together, to share their temporal treasure far beyond themselves and receive spiritual treasure that transforms them in return.
We receive, after all, not primarily by what we get but by what we give.
ALABAMA • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Banks Caddell Partnership, $1,500 • Mission Enterprise Zone Grant: Be the Change: Alabama, $20,000 • New Church Start Grant: The Abbey, $100,000 • Scholarships, $12,642 • Video created and shared with the wider Church: Trinity Church, Clanton • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
ALASKA • Indigenous Theological Training Grants: Building Leaders & Communities for Transformational Churches, $8,200 • Indigenous Theological Training Grants: Bishops’ Native Collaborative, for use in Alaska,
Montana, Navajoland, North Dakota, South Dakota, $160,100 • Advocacy: Deepened and intensified longstanding advocacy support for the environmental concerns of the Gwich’in Indians, nearly all of whom are Episcopalians and who have provided one of the most robust and politically influential defenses of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge against oil drilling. Support work has included Missionary Society participation and leadership in the D.C.-based Arctic Coalition and regular engagement and consultation with the Gwich’in Steering Committee and the Bishop of Alaska. • Block grants, $866,666 • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The
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Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, San Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Mission Enterprise Zone Grants: Indigenous Ministry Development through the Bishops’ Native Collaborative, Dioceses of Alaska/Montana/ Navajoland/North Dakota/ South Dakota, $60,000 • New Opportunities Grant: Iona Mentor Training, $8,000 • New Opportunities Grant: Memories and Recollections of Gwich’in Elders of the Episcopal Church: $8,000 • New Opportunities Grant: Old Minto, Alaska Bible Camp: Summer 2014: $8,500 • Roanridge Trust Grant: Dioceses of Alaska, Navajoland, and North
Dakota: The Bishops’ Native Collaborative: Curriculum Development Project, $20,000 • Roanridge Trust Grant: Dioceses of Alaska, Navajoland, North Dakota, and South Dakota: The Bishops’ Native Collaborative, $20,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: St. James the Fisherman, Kodiak Island, $105,000 • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event) • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training • Working with Global Partnerships on design of new models within Indigenous Ministry locations in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Working with Global Partnerships on recruiting within Indigenous Ministry Networks for YASC in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota
ALBANY • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.)
ARIZONA • All-day conferences around the new vision for Latino/Hispanic ministry focusing on NGLs (New Generation Latinos) in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, San Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $520,322
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• Intern placement in Office of Government Relations • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Good Shepherd of the Hills, $1,500 • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Naco Wellness, $1,500 • Mission Enterprise Zone Grant: Calling the Circle, $20,000 • Multi-month advocacy campaign for comprehensive immigration reform in collaboration with the Presiding Bishop, Bishops Working for a Just World, and Bishop of Rochester Prince Singh; participating bishops/ dioceses included Arizona, Central New York, Iowa, North Carolina, Rochester, San Diego, and Western North Carolina.
• Provided Mission Developers training in both English and Spanish in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Scholarships, $8,368.25 • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event)
• New Church Start Grant: Iglesia Santa Maria, $100,000
ARKANSAS
• New Opportunities Grant: Building Bridges: Inspiring and Empowering Native American community development/ partnerships: $8,000
• Roanridge Trust Grant: Diocese of Texas for training work in the Dioceses of Arkansas/Oklahoma, Mississippi, Nebraska, Northwest Texas,
West Texas and Wyoming – Iona Initiative – Formation for Locally Prepared 21st Century Clergy, $35,000 • Roanridge Trust: Ark Fellows – Episcopal Service Corps, $5,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • United Thank Offering Grant: Camp Mitchell Agricultural Project, $23,473
ATLANTA • Clergy Indaba in partnership with the Dioceses of Atlanta, Long Island, Maryland, and North Carolina, with attendance of clergy and lay people from more than 30 dioceses • Domestic poverty conference • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $631,506 • Immigration reform networking project in partnership with Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia, Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper South Carolina, and Washington • Office of Black Ministries New Visions partnerships are in the following dioceses: Long Island, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, and Newark. The second phase includes Atlanta, California, and Washington. • Scholarships, $6,564.42 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign
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Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion Diocese Haiti) Healthy Mothers, Healthy Children, $17,500 • United Thank Offering Grant: Five Smooth Stones – Bullying Educational DVD Facilitator Guide, St. Anthony’s Episcopal Church, Winder, Georgia (Recipient 2013 John Hines Social Justice Award), $34,280.91 • United Thank Offering Grant: Friendship Center of Holy Comforter, Atlanta $26,400
• Represented at World Refugee Day advocacy gathering in Washington, D.C.
BETHLEHEM • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • United Thank Offering Grant: Diocesan Office Building in the
Companion Diocese of Kajo Keji, Sudan, $75,000
CALIFORNIA • Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Conant Grant: Church Divinity School of the Pacific, $14,338 • Congregational Development and Church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica Ministry Consultation, San Francisco 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan
• Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, San Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Episcopalians engaged in climate-change advocacy through physical presence in Washington, D.C. • Justice and Advocacy Fellowship for Environmental Stewardship, Sarah Nolan, sponsored by The Beecken Center at the School of Theology at Sewanee, $48,000 • Office of Black Ministries New Visions partnerships are in the following dioceses: Long Island,
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Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, and Newark. The second phase includes Atlanta, California, and Washington. • Scholarships, $1,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino
Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Training with theologians and seminarians through AsiaAmerica Theological Exchange Forum held in Philippines 2013 in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Malawi) Building Malawi’s Nursing Workforce, St. Anne College, $124,749.98 • United Thank Offering Grant: Eat Your Greens! Healthy Seasonal Meals Made Easy, St. Edmunds Episcopal Church, Pacifica $5,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: The Health & Wellness Center of Holy Child & St. Martin, Holy Child & St. Martin Episcopal Church, Daly City, $37,500 • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary
Society (following Episcopal Youth Event)
CENTRAL FLORIDA • Office of Black Ministries Rising Stars Program: The office helps to implement the program to ensure mentor training, background checks and Safe Church Training in the Dioceses of Central Florida, Long Island, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Southern Ohio. • Scholarships, $1,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have
been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.)
CENTRAL GULF COAST • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Pilot usage of churchwide asset map developed in partnership between Episcopal Relief & Development, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Dioceses of Louisiana and New York; additionally, the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast, Chicago, Colorado, Eastern Michigan, New Jersey, and Northern California joined Phase 2 in late 2014. • Scholarships, $1,000
CENTRAL NEW YORK • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $443,557 • Multimonth advocacy campaign for comprehensive immigration reform in collaboration with the Presiding Bishop, Bishops
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Working for a Just World, and Bishop of Rochester Prince Singh; participating bishops/ dioceses included Arizona, Central New York, Iowa, North Carolina, Rochester, San Diego, and Western North Carolina. • United Thank Offering Grant: The Trinity of the Undercroft, St. Mark the Evangelist Episcopal Church, Syracuse, $84,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Tuesday Night Dinners Kitchen Update, All Saints, $10,000
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200
CHICAGO • All-day conferences around the new vision for Latino/Hispanic ministry focusing on NGLs (New Generation Latinos) in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of
Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Conant Grant: Bexley Seabury Federation, $6,734.50 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $154,715 • New Church Start grant: Divine Power Yoga, Diocese of Chicago/ Metro Chicago Synod, $100,000 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Provided Mission Developers training in both English and Spanish in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The
Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Pilot usage of churchwide asset map developed in partnership between Episcopal Relief & Development, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Dioceses of Louisiana and New York; additionally, the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast, Chicago, Colorado, Eastern Michigan, New Jersey, and Northern California joined Phase 2 in late 2014. • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles,
Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • United Thank Offering Grant: Gracie’s Café – Rebuilding Lives, St. Leonard’s Ministries, $10,000
COLOMBIA • Block grants, $254,800 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Diocesan programs, $7,500 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Provincial and regional programs, Province IX, $28,500 • Constable Fund Grant: Virtual Campus Training Project – Global Partnerships, Province IX, with Office of Communications, $43,500 • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Youth Leadership Development, $1,500
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• New Jubilee Center: Fundación Pastoral para la Promoción Humana, Barrio Central, Cucuta
• Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: 2nd Avenue Jubilee Center, $960
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• Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Broomfield Farmers’ Market at Holy Comforter Episcopal, $1,250
• United Thank Offering Grant: Purchase of a vehicle for the Diocese of Colombia, $35,000 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
COLORADO • Asset Based Community Development Pilot Program Grant: Our Merciful Savior Ministries, Inc., Denver, $22,000 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Canterbury Colorado, University of Colorado-Boulder, $1,800 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $810,739 • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Evergreen Christian Outreach, $1,500
• Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Trinity Episcopal Church, $855 • New Jubilee Center: Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Centennial, Colorado • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Pilot usage of churchwide asset map developed in partnership between Episcopal Relief & Development, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Dioceses of Louisiana and New York; additionally, the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast, Chicago, Colorado, Eastern Michigan, New Jersey, and Northern California joined Phase 2 in late 2014.
• Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • State Public Policy Network • United Thank Offering Grant: Plumbing to Access Additional Water for a Community Giving Garden, Frederick, Colorado $19,400 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Episcopal Diocese of Kadugli in Diaspora) Primary care training for women health workers, $26,625
• United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Haiti) Increasing Career Readiness of Students in Rural Haiti, $62,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: St. Francis Center homeless shelter expansion, $45,000 • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training
CONNECTICUT • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts.
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• All-day conferences around the new vision for Latino/Hispanic ministry focusing on NGLs (New Generation Latinos) in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, and Virginia • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Episcopal Church at Yale University, Gateway College, $5,000 • Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Congregational development and church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica Ministry Consultation, San Francisco 2013, in partnership
with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $230,446 • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Holy Week worship videos: Palms and Parasols Second Line Procession with Jazz Band from St. Paul & St. James Church, New Haven • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women
• Provided Mission Developers training in both English and Spanish in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia. • Scholarships, $2,000 • State Public Policy Network • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.)
• Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Training with theologians and seminarians through AsiaAmerica Theological Exchange Forum held in Philippines 2013 in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • United Thank Offering Grant: Food for All & Food for All, Jr.,
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CONVOCATION OF EPISCOPAL CHURCHES IN EUROPE • Block grants, $30,215 • Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society financial support for bishop, housing, and staff. • Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society engagement with convocation Youth Commission; training; and Youth Across Europe and Juniors Across Europe groups. • Scholarships, $4,500
DALLAS • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern
Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • New Jubilee Center: Church of the Epiphany, Richardson, Texas • New Jubilee Center: Ascension Outbound, Dallas • New Jubilee Center: Randy Sams’ Outreach Shelter, Texarkana, Texas • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are
in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event) • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
DELAWARE • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200 • “Commonplace” network gathering for campus and young-adult ministry leaders. • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event)
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• Block grants, $455,000 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Diocesan programs, $10,000 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Provincial and regional programs, Province IX, $28,500 • Constable Fund Grant: Virtual Campus Training Project– Global Partnerships, Province IX, with Office of Communications, $43,500 • New Church Start grant: Mission Christ the Liberator (Cristo Libertador), $100,000 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Scholarships, $4,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Church/Shelter Mission Santa Ana, Mendoza, $105,874
• United Thank Offering Grant: San Jorge Church and Shelter, Azua, $75,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Santa Cruz Vocational School, Santa Fe, The Dominican Republic, $162,817 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
EAST CAROLINA • Campus Ministry Program Grant: East Carolina University; Pitt Community College, $3,500 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: University of North Carolina – Pembroke, $1,700 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: University of North Carolina-Wilmington; Cape Fear Community College, $4,500 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $871,128 • State Public Policy Network development
• United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Dominican Republic) Colegio Episcal Prof, Laura Morrow Playground Project, $27,842 • United Thank Offering Grant: Ruth’s House, Inc., St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Washington, North Carolina, $41,500 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
EAST TENNESSEE • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $472,880 • Justice and Advocacy Fellowship for Environmental Stewardship, Cynthia Coe, sponsored by the DuBose Conference Center, an Episcopal facility owned by the three Episcopal dioceses located in Tennessee, $48,000 • New Jubilee Center: Cumberland Adult Reading Council, Crossville, Tennessee • New Jubilee Center: Southside Abbey, Chattanooga
• United Thank Offering Grant: Neema Resettlement Outreach Ministries: Taking Root Community Garden, Community Partnership: Chattanooga, $18,109
EASTERN MICHIGAN • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • Constable Fund Grant: Celebrating Diversity in the Lower Peninsula – Province V (Dioceses of Eastern Michigan, Michigan and Western Michigan), $26,450
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• Pilot usage of churchwide asset map developed in partnership between Episcopal Relief & Development, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Dioceses of Louisiana and New York; additionally, the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast, Chicago, Colorado, Eastern Michigan, New Jersey, and Northern California joined Phase 2 in late 2014. • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
EASTERN OREGON • All-day conferences around the new vision for Latino/Hispanic ministry focusing on NGLs [New Generation Latinos] in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and
Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, S an Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Provided Mission Developers training in both English and Spanish in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona,
Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia. • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia
• United Thank Offering Grant: Growing Food and Building Community, Ascension School Camp and Conference Center, $11,265 • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event)
EASTON • Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Congregational development and church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica Ministry Consultation, San Francisco 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino
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Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200 • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Training with theologians and seminarians through AsiaAmerica Theological Exchange Forum held in Philippines 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • United Thank Offering Grant: Establishing St. Andrews
Montessori Preschool at Grace Church Parish House, Mount Vernon, Maryland, $25,000
EAU CLAIRE • United Thank Offering Grant: Empowering the Homeless – Community Connections for Housing Stability: A Project of Benjamin’s House Emergency Shelter, Inc., Barron County, Wisconsin, $13,680
ECUADOR CENTRAL • Block grants, $336,526 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Provincial and regional programs, Province IX, $28,500 • Constable Fund Grant: Virtual Campus Training Project – Global Partnerships, Province IX, with Office of Communications, $43,500 • Indigenous Theological Training Grant: Programa de Formación del Chimborazo (Training of
Community Leaders and Pastoral Team), $5,400 • Sermones que Iluminan • Working with Global Partnerships on design of new models within Indigenous Ministry locations in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Working with Global Partnerships on recruiting within Indigenous Ministry Networks for YASC in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota
ECUADOR LITORAL • All-day conferences around the new vision for Latino/Hispanic ministry focusing on NGLs
[New Generation Latinos] in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Block grants, $231,220 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Diocesan programs, $9,000 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Provincial and regional programs, Province IX, $28,500 • Constable Fund Grant: Virtual Campus Training Project – Global Partnerships, Province IX, with Office of Communications, $43,500 • Provided Mission Developers training in both English and Spanish in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral,
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Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia. • Sermones que Iluminan • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • United Thank Offering Grant: Creation & Equipment of a Community Helping Center, $80,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Enclosure of church property, San Jose Obrero, Blanke, $18,559 • United Thank Offering Grant: Creation and equipping of a Community Helping Center for vulnerable people, $48,010
EL CAMINO REAL • Campus Ministry Program Grant: West Valley Community College, $2,750
• Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • Congregational development and church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica Ministry Consultation, San Francisco 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California,
Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, S an Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Korean Ministry of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, $20,000 • New Church Start grant: Iglesia Episcopal San Pablo Apóstol, $100,000 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Roanridge Trust Grant: Trinity Church After School Program, Computer Lab, $13,500 • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester,
and Taiwan • Training with theologians and seminarians through AsiaAmerica Theological Exchange Forum held in Philippines 2013 in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event) • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
FLORIDA • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $65,717 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Scholarships, $1,642 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Cuba) Camp Blankingship, $51,750
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FOND DU LAC • United Thank Offering Grant: Sound System for Church to Accommodate Hearing Impaired Worshippers, St Johns, Shawano, WI, $7,000 • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training • Working with Global Partnerships on design of new models within Indigenous Ministry locations in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Working with Global Partnerships on recruiting within Indigenous Ministry Networks
for YASC in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event)
FORT WORTH • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Fort Worth Young Adult Campus Ministry at Texas Christian University; University of Texas-Arlington; Tarleton State University, $3,500 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Roanridge Trust Grant: The Church of the 1st Century for Re-Organizing Dioceses, Episcopal Church Building Fund, $32,844
GEORGIA • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Middle Georgia State College, $2,150 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Episcopal Development Agency of Thomasville, $20,000 • Intern placement in Office of Government Relations • Roanridge Trust Grant: Clergy Peer Coaching, $20,000 • Scholarships, $5,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Dairen Community Youth Group, St. Andrew’s & St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Churches, $30,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Urban Agricultural Mission in the Diocese of Georgia, Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Thomasville, $27,000
HAITI • Block grants, $709,450 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and
the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Diocesan programs, $10,000 • Constable Fund Grant: Province II (for The Episcopal Diocese of Haiti) to establish a network of three radio stations in the northern region of the Diocese of Haiti; $130,000 • Development: Total gifts and pledges to date for Haiti and Navajoland, $5.425 million • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Haiti Program Development, $1,500 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Scholarships, $4,432.21 • United Thank Offering Grant: Roof Replacement and Renovation for St Martin de Tours, Port-au-Prince, $100,000 • Development Department engagement in fundraising • Consultation and assistance in development of sustainability plan
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Francisco 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan
• Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) placements partnered here
• Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, San Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000
HAWAII • Indigenous Theological Training Grants: Naimiloa (formation for the Diaconate) and Waiolaihui’ia (formation for the Priesthood, $26,680 • Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • Congregational development and church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica Ministry Consultation, San
• Mission Enterprise Zone grant: St. Columba Church Replant, $20,000 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women
• Scholarships, $19,190 • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Training with theologians and seminarians through AsiaAmerica Theological Exchange Forum held in Philippines 2013 in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • United Thank Offering A Cup of Cold Water: A Community Care Van – Outreach of the Episcopal Church of Maui: Good Shepherd, Wailuku; Holy Innocents, Lahaina; Trinity by the Sea, Kihei; and St John’s, Kula, $15,000
• Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event) • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
HONDURAS • Block grants, $455,000 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Diocesan programs, $10,000 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Provincial and regional programs, Province IX, $28,500 • Constable Fund Grant: Virtual Campus Training Project – Global Partnerships, Province IX, with Office of Communications, $43,500 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Hurricane Shelter, Sewing Clinic, $20,000
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• Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • United Thank Offering Grant: Vehicle for Self-Sustainability in Honduras, $15,000 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) placements partnered here
IDAHO • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, S an Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000
• Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $475,446 • Mission Enterprise Zone Grant: Living our Baptismal Covenant Together, $20,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Completion of Teachers’ Workroom, a Project of Lillian Vallely School, adjacent to the Fort Hall Reservation in Blackfoot, $6,162.95 • United Thank Offering Grant: La Gracia Van, Grace Episcopal Church, Nampa, ID & Misión La Iglesia de la Gracia, $15,000 • Working with Global Partnerships on design of new models within Indigenous Ministry locations in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Working with Global Partnerships on recruiting within Indigenous Ministry Networks
for YASC in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota
INDIANAPOLIS • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $1,177,485 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.)
• Roanridge Trust Grant: Pathways to Vitality, $17,450 • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event) • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
IOWA • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Student leaders forming campus ministries initiative, $5,000 • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Jubilee Community Center, Muscatine, IA, $1,500 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Young Adult Ministry Development Team, $20,000 • Multi-month advocacy campaign for comprehensive immigration reform in collaboration with the Presiding Bishop, Bishops Working for a Just World, and Bishop of Rochester Prince Singh; Participating bishops/
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dioceses included Arizona, Central New York, Iowa, North Carolina, Rochester, San Diego, and Western North Carolina. • New Jubilee Center: The Micah Project, Sioux City, IA, $30,130.12 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion Diocese – Nzara, South Sudan) The ECS Diocese of Nzara Agricultural Assistance Program, $13,100 • United Thank Offering Grant: Jubilee Community Center, Trinity Episcopal Church, Muscatine, $2,500
KANSAS • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $104,616 • Jubilee Ministry Program Development Grant: St. Paul’s, Kansas City - “Youth in Transition, $35,000 • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Episcopal Social Services, Inc., $1,500
• Roanridge Trust Grant: The Bishop Kemper School for Ministry: Kansas, Nebraska, West Missouri, Western Kansas, $50,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • United Thank Offering Grant: Education Promoting Hope, Episcopal Social Services, Wichita, $9,645
• United Thank Offering Grant: From Poverty to Financial Stability, a Project of Episcopal Social Services, South Central Kansas, $21,753
• Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $280,560
• United Thank Offering Grant: EWARM Refugee Learning and Self-Sufficiency Computer Laboratory, Episcopal Wichita Area Refugee Ministry (EWARM), $24,360
• New Jubilee Center: Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, St. Agnes’ House, Lexington, KY
KENTUCKY • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $694,221 • United Thank Offering Grant: Christ Church’s Wednesday Lunch Program, Bowling Green, $4,180.00 • United Thank Offering Grant: Mirror/Mirror, a Youth Project of St. George’s Community Center, Louisville, $10,775 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
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• Roanridge Trust Grant: Reading Camp, $20,000 • Represented at World Refugee Day advocacy gathering in Washington, D.C.
LONG ISLAND • Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Clergy Indaba in partnership with the Dioceses of Atlanta,
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Long Island, Maryland, and North Carolina, with attendance of clergy and lay persons from more than thirty dioceses • Congregational development and church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica Ministry Consultation, San Francisco 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Scholarships, $1,642
• Office of Black Ministries New Visions partnerships are in the following dioceses: Long Island, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, and Newark. The second phase includes Atlanta, California, and Washington. • Office of Black Ministries Rising Stars Program: The office helps to implement the program to ensure mentor training, background checks and Safe Church Training in the Dioceses of: Central Florida, Long Island, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Southern Ohio • Organized celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month in the Dioceses of Long Island and New York • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership
with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Training with theologians and seminarians through AsiaAmerica Theological Exchange Forum held in Philippines 2013 in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Ghana) Establishment of Rural Health Centre, $35,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Immigrant Wellness Program, St. James Episcopal Church, Elmhurst, $24,960 • Video created and shared with the wider Church: “Occupy Sandy,” St. Luke & St. Mathew’s Church, Brooklyn, New York
LOS ANGELES • All-day conferences around the new vision for Latino/Hispanic ministry focusing on NGLs [New Generation Latinos] in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Campus Ministry Program Grant: California State Long Beach, $5,000 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Diocese of Massachusetts/Diocese of Los Angeles, Integrity Campus Ministry Project, $1,500 • Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan
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• Congregational development and church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica Ministry Consultation, San Francisco 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, San Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $131,287
• Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Partnership with Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society to develop 2015 thought-leadership event on climate change • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: The Matthew 25 Project, $20,000 • New Church Start grant: St. Mary in Palms – Spanish speaking ministry, $20,000 • New Church Start grant: The Abundant Table Farm Church, $100,000 • Provided Mission Developers training in both English and Spanish in partnership with
ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Roanridge Trust Grant: Seeds of Hope – Farm Adviser Training Program, $15,000 • Scholarships, $13,500 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino,
Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Training with theologians and seminarians through AsiaAmerica Theological Exchange Forum held in Philippines 2013 in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • Video created and shared with the wider Church: “ Thad’s,” Santa Monica, California
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• Video created and shared with the wider Church: “Gospel Americana – The Music at Thad’s,” Santa Monica • Video created and shared with the wider Church: “Laundry Love,” Santa Monica • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training • Working with Global Partnerships on design of new models within Indigenous Ministry locations in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Working with Global Partnerships on recruiting within Indigenous Ministry Networks for YASC in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac,
Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Chinese trust fund grant for development of Li Tim-Oi Center, $50,000 (of total grant awarded of $150,000 over three years)
LOUISIANA • New Visions training with clergy and lay persons • Office of Black Ministries New Visions partnerships are in the following dioceses: Long Island, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Newark. The second phase includes Atlanta, California, and Washington. • Pilot usage of churchwide asset map developed in partnership between Episcopal Relief & Development, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Dioceses of Louisiana and New York; additionally, the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast, Chicago, Colorado, Eastern
Michigan, New Jersey, and Northern California joined Phase 2 in late 2014. • United Thank Offering Grant: St. Paul’s Senior Community Center – St. Paul’s Homecoming Center, New Orleans, $37,800 • Video created and shared with the wider Church: “Jericho Road,” New Orleans
MAINE • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Seeds of Hope Neighborhood Center, $20,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion Diocese – Haiti) School for Saints Simon and Jude, Duny, $30,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Food for Thought: Feeding Students in Lincoln County, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, $13,625 • United Thank Offering Grant: Capacity Building – Donor Ma nagement and Social Network-
ing at Trinity Episcopal Church, Lewiston, $10,242 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
MARYLAND • All-day conferences around the new vision for Latino/Hispanic ministry focusing on NGLs [New Generation Latinos] in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Clergy Indaba in partnership with the Dioceses of Atlanta, Long Island, Maryland, and North Carolina, with attendance of clergy and lay persons from more than 30 dioceses • “Commonplace” network gathering for campus and young-adult ministry leaders • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200
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• Episcopalians engaged in climate-change advocacy through physical presence in Washington, D.C. • Immigration reform networking project in partnership with Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia, Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper South Carolina, and Washington • New Church Start grant: Canton/ Fells Point Mission, Diocese of Maryland and DelawareMaryland Synod of the ELCA, $100,000 • New Jubilee Center: The Church of the Holy Nativity, Baltimore • Office of Black Ministries New Visions partnerships are in the following dioceses: Long Island, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Newark. The second phase includes Atlanta, California, and Washington • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women
• Provided Mission Developers training in both English and Spanish in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Scholarships, $5,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • State Public Policy Network
• Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia
MASSACHUSETTS • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Diocese of Massachusetts/Diocese of Los Angeles, Integrity Campus Ministry Project, $1,500 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, $4,000 • Congregational vitality videos: produced in partnership, highlighting empowering lay leadership, managing aging buildings, creation of childcare services, six videos • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $46,856 • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.;
dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • New Church Start grant: Allston Project, $100,000 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Preparing bishop nominees for walk-abouts and media encounters • Scholarships, $5,000 • State Public Policy Network • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying
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health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Tanzania) English Immersion & Enrichment Program at Hegongo Holy Cross High School, $8,850 • United Thank Offering Grant: B-Peace for Jorge Campaign, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Boston, $20,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: St. Stephen’s Youth Rooms Renovation, Boston, $10,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Tanga, Sudan) Solar Power for the Kizara Health Center, Tanga, $23,144
• Video created and shared with the wider Church: “Brother Geoffrey,” Cambridge, Massachusetts • Video created and shared with the wider Church: “The Crossing,” Boston • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
MICHIGAN • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • All-day conferences around the new vision for Latino/Hispanic ministry focusing on NGLs [New
Generation Latinos] in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Constable Fund Grant: Celebrating Diversity in the Lower Peninsula – Province V (Dioceses of Eastern Michigan, Michigan and Western Michigan), $26,450 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $2,185,854 • New Church Start grant: La Iglesia Detroit, $100,000 • Office of Black Ministries New Visions partnerships are in the following dioceses: Long Island, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, and Newark. The second phase includes Atlanta, California, and Washington. • Office of Black Ministries Rising Stars Program: The office helps to implement the program to ensure mentor training, background checks and Safe
Church Training in the Dioceses of Central Florida, Long Island, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Southern Ohio. • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Provided Mission Developers training in both English and Spanish in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia. • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual
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misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • United Thank Offering Grant: Refurbishment of Kitchen for Daily Breakfast Program, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, $76,275.34 • Represented at World Refugee Day advocacy gathering in Washington, D.C. • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
MICRONESIA • Block Grant, $100,000 • Scholarships through 2042 to local students at St. John’s Episcopal School in exchange
for forgiveness of a property loan from the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, $100,000 (total)
MILWAUKEE • Campus Ministry Program Grant: University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, $5,000 • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the
Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) ) • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion Diocese – Newala, Tanzania) Mkoma underground water tank, $7,965 • United Thank Offering Grant: Computer and Internet access for low-income, urban youth, $4,185
MINNESOTA • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota,
Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • Campus Ministry Program Grant: All Minnesota Colleges, $5,000 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Riverland Community College, $5,000 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: University of Minnesota, Duluth, $5,000 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: University of Minnesota-Duluth, $3,100 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $488,344 • Kindling Conference 2014, Minneapolis • New Church Start grant: Hmong Ministry Planting Initiative, $100,000 • New Opportunities Grant: Camping and Creation: $8,000
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• New Opportunities Grant: Minnesota Healing Movement for Community Action: $8,000 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Roanridge Trust Grant: NW Minnesota Indigenous/Ojibwe Total Ministry Training Program, $20,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • United Thank Offering Grant: Upgrade kitchen equipment for
community meals, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Kasson, Minnesota, $8,700
MISSISSIPPI • Fifty Years Later – The State of Racism in America event: Partnered with the diocese; webcast and on-demand video available; participation guides; follow-up conversation tools • Roanridge Trust Grant: Diocese of Texas for training work in the Dioceses of Arkansas/ Oklahoma, Mississippi, Nebraska, Northwest Texas, West Texas and Wyoming – Iona Initiative – Formation for Locally Prepared 21st Century Clergy, $35,000 • Scholarships, $1,642 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Panama) Renovation of Bishop Gooden Center, $43,738 • United Thank Offering Grant: MSU Canterbury Accessibility, Church of the Resurrection, $2,000
• United Thank Offering Grant: Trinity Episcopal Church Casket Lift, Pass Christian, $36,975 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
MISSOURI • Office of Justice and Advocacy Ministries and Episcopal Relief & Development Grant to assist in domestic poverty, pastoral and community work in Ferguson, Missouri, $40,000 • Scholarships, $2,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have
been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • United Thank Offering Grant: EC21 Tech Hub (Episcopal Church of the 21st Century Technology Hub), Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, St. Louis, $9,674.91 • United Thank Offering Grant: All Saints Music & Arts Village, St. Louis, $10,000 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
MONTANA • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Flathead Valley Community College, $5,000 • Indigenous Theological Training Grants: Bishops’ Native Collaborative, for use in Alaska, Montana, Navajoland, North Dakota, South Dakota, $160,100
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• Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Indigenous Ministry Development through the Bishops’ Native Collaborative, Dioceses of Alaska/Montana/ Navajoland/North Dakota/ South Dakota, $60,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Tri-county/Tri-parish Woodbank Equipment Upgrade, St. James Episcopal Church, Dillon, $8,500
NAVAJOLAND AREA MISSION • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • Block grants, $666,666
• Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, San Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Indigenous Theological Training Grants: Bishops’ Native Collaborative, for use in Alaska, Montana, Navajoland, North Dakota, South Dakota, $160,100 • Indigenous Theological Training Grant: Essential Practices in the Hooghan Learning Circle, $3,940 • Development Department engagement in fundraising
• Consultation and assistance in development of sustainability plan and formation of Navajoland Area Mission Development Corporation • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Microbusiness and community-development project developed in partnership with Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society Offices of Domestic Poverty and Federal Ministries • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Indigenous Ministry Development through the Bishops’ Native Collaborative, Dioceses
of Alaska/Montana/Navajoland/ North Dakota/South Dakota, $60,000 • Office of Government Relations staff representative spent one week working with Deacon Cornelia Eaton to compile and consolidate Navajoland contacts on computer spreadsheet. Helped complete various other necessary tasks around the main Navajoland Area Mission offices • Roanridge Trust Grant: Dioceses of Alaska, Navajoland, and North Dakota: The Bishops’ Native Collaborative: Curriculum Development Project, $20,000 • Roanridge Trust Grant: Dioceses of Alaska, Navajoland, North Dakota, and South Dakota: The Bishops’ Native Collaborative, $20,000 • Scholarships, $3,368.25 • United Thank Offering Grant: Navajoland Moving Forward, $49,500
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• United Thank Offering Grant: Waging Hozho, Farmington, $47,601 • Web presence and many social media campaigns raise awareness and encourage engagement on issues related to Haiti, Navajoland • Web presence and many social media campaigns raise awareness and encourage engagement on issues related to Haiti and Navajoland through Development Department • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training • Working with Global Partnerships on design of new models within Indigenous Ministry locations in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota
• Working with Global Partnerships on recruiting within Indigenous Ministry Networks for YASC in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota
NEBRASKA • Constable Fund Grant: Ecumenical/Interfaith Education on Tri-Faith Campus, $10,000 • Roanridge Trust Grant: Diocese of Texas for training work in the Dioceses of Arkansas/ Oklahoma, Mississippi, Nebraska, Northwest Texas, West Texas and Wyoming – Iona Initiative – Formation for Locally Prepared 21st Century Clergy, $35,000 • Roanridge Trust Grant: The Bishop Kemper School for Ministry: Kansas, Nebraska, West Missouri, Western Kansas, $50,000
• Roanridge Trust Grant: Engaging in Interfaith Ministry in Rural Congregations, $19,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Twic East County, Sudan), purchase of 10 bicycles and five motorcycles for clergy to access remote areas, $11,000 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
NEVADA • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, S an Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000
• Episcopalians engaged in climate-change advocacy through physical presence in Washington, D.C. • Jubilee/Domestic Poverty Grant, $30,000 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Pilot Grant: Lutheran Episcopal Advocacy in Nevada • State Public Policy Network development • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training
NEW HAMPSHIRE • Campus Ministry Program Grant: United Campus Ministry at Plymouth State University, $1,200 • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.;
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dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $275,102 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.)
• Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Scholarships, $1,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: A new roof to expand outreach in Berlin, St. Barnabas Church, Berlin, $12,000 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
NEW JERSEY • Episcopalians engaged in climate-change advocacy through physical presence in Washington, D.C. • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Trinity School for Arts, $1,500 • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Vacation Music Academy, $1,500 • New Jubilee Center: All Saints’ Community Center, Lakewood • New Jubilee Center: Saint Mark’s Center for Community Renewal, Keansburg
• New Jubilee Center: St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, Asbury Park • Office of Black Ministries New Visions partnerships are in the following dioceses: Long Island, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, and Newark. The second phase includes Atlanta, California, and Washington. • Pilot usage of churchwide asset map developed in partnership between Episcopal Relief & Development, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Dioceses of Louisiana and New York; additionally, the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast, Chicago, Colorado, Eastern Michigan, New Jersey, and Northern California joined Phase 2 in late 2014. • Scholarships, $15,000 • State Public Policy Network development • United Thank Offering Grant: Samaritan House, All Saints Church, Lakewood, $40,000
NEW YORK • Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Congregational development and church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica Ministry Consultation, San Francisco 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Episcopalians engaged in climatechange advocacy through physical presence in Washington, D.C. • Holy Week worship videos: Times Square Palm Sunday Procession, St. Mary the Virgin, New York, NY
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• Lead generation test marketing project partner • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Warriors of the Dream – Transforming Violence, Building Leaders, $20,000 • Office of Black Ministries Rising Stars Program: The office helps to implement the program to ensure mentor training, background checks and Safe Church Training in the Dioceses of Central Florida, Long Island, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Southern Ohio. • Organized celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month in the Dioceses of Long Island and New York • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Pilot usage of churchwide asset map developed in partnership between Episcopal Relief & Development, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Dioceses of Louisiana and
New York; additionally, the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast, Chicago, Colorado, Eastern Michigan, New Jersey, and Northern California joined Phase 2 in late 2014. • Scholarships, $5,000 • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Training with theologians and seminarians through AsiaAmerica Theological Exchange Forum held in Philippines 2013 in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion Diocese – Central
Tanganyika, Tanzania) Ibihwa Vocational Training Center/ The Carpenter’s Kids • Video created and shared with the wider Church: “Bistro St. Michael’s,” New York • Video created and shared with the wider Church: “Bluestone Farms” • Video created and shared with the wider Church: St. Mary’s Urban Farm, Harlem • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
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• All-day conferences around the new vision for Latino/Hispanic ministry focusing on NGLs [New Generation Latinos] in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia
• Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women
• Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented
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ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia. • State Public Policy Network development • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • United Thank Offering Grant: North Porch Women and Infants’ Centers, $9,400
NORTH CAROLINA • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern
Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • Campus Ministry Leadership Grant: “A Moveable Feast” – Johnson Community College, Smithfield; Barton College, Wilson; North Carolina Central University, Durham; and Johnson C Smith University, Charlotte, $30,000 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: LEAF, Inc. (Lutherans, Episcopalians, and Friends) at Elon University, $5,000 • Clergy Indaba in partnership with the Dioceses of Atlanta, Long Island, Maryland, and North Carolina, with attendance of clergy and lay persons from more than 30 dioceses • Grants for Historically Black Colleges: St. Augustine’s, Raleigh, $654,147.48
• Immigration reform networking project in partnership with Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia, Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper South Carolina, and Washington • Multimonth advocacy campaign for comprehensive immigration reform in collaboration with the Presiding Bishop, Bishops Working for a Just World, and Bishop of Rochester Prince Singh; participating bishops/ dioceses included Arizona, Central New York, Iowa, North Carolina, Rochester, San Diego, and Western North Carolina. • Office of Black Ministries Rising Stars Program: The office helps to implement the program to ensure mentor training, background checks and Safe Church Training in the Dioceses of Central Florida, Long Island, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Southern Ohio. • Office of Government Relations hosted youth D.C. mission trip for discussion on faith, policy, and politics.
• Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • State Public Policy Network development • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • United Thank Offering Grant: Circles Chatham, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Pittsboro, $14,275 • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training
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NORTH DAKOTA • Block grants, $362,666 • Campus Ministry Leadership Grant: Sitting Bull College, United Tribes Technical College, $25,000 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $347,924 • Indigenous Theological Training Grants: Bishops’ Native Collaborative, for use in Alaska, Montana, Navajoland, North Dakota, South Dakota, $160,100 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Indigenous Ministry Development through the Bishops’ Native Collaborative, Dioceses of Alaska/Montana/ Navajoland/North Dakota/ South Dakota, $60,000 • New Opportunities Grant: Pathways to Ministry: $8,000 • Roanridge Trust Grant: The Dioceses of Alaska, Navajoland,
and North Dakota: The Bishops’ Native Collaborative: Curriculum Development Project, $20,000 • Roanridge Trust Grant: The Dioceses of Alaska, Navajoland, North Dakota, and South Dakota: The Bishops’ Native Collaborative, $20,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: St. James Ikpanazin Rebuilding Fund, St. James – Cannon Ball, Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation, $48,958 • United Thank Offering Grant: Soup Kitchen Renovation, All Saints, Minot, $8,732 • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training • Working with Global Partnerships on design of new models within Indigenous Ministry locations in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador
Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Working with Global Partnerships on recruiting within Indigenous Ministry Networks for YASC in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA • Campus Ministry Program Grant: The Belfry at the University of California-Davis, $5,000 • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation
and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, San Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: St. Matthew’s Mission Enterprise, $20,000 • Pilot usage of churchwide asset map developed in partnership between Episcopal Relief & Development, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and the Dioceses of Louisiana and New York; additionally, the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast, Chicago, Colorado, Eastern Michigan, New Jersey, and Northern California joined Phase 2 in late 2014. • Roanridge Trust Grant: Sempervirens Deanery Diaconal Ministry Development, $7,050 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of
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the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • United Thank Offering Grant: Homeless Seniors Needs Study, Church of the Incarnation, Santa Rosa, $17,160 • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training
NORTHERN INDIANA • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Camp New Happenings, $1,500
• Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Westside Ministry Partnership, $20,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion Diocese – Honduras) Empowering Women, Providing Health Benefits, Delicias del Norte, $30,000
NORTHERN MICHIGAN • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Michigan Technological University; Finlandia University, $5,000 • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Camp New Day, $1,500 • Roanridge Trust Grant: Field Education for Seminarians in Northern Michigan from Episcopal Divinity School, $17,600
NORTHWEST TEXAS • Roanridge Trust Grant: Diocese of Texas for training work in the Dioceses of Arkansas/ Oklahoma, Mississippi, Nebraska, Northwest Texas,
West Texas and Wyoming – Iona Initiative – Formation for Locally Prepared 21st Century Clergy, $35,000 • Scholarships, $4,896 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200
OHIO • Episcopalians engaged in climate-change advocacy through physical presence in Washington, D.C. • Immigration reform networking project in partnership with Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia, Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper South Carolina, and Washington • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of
the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event) • United Thank Offering Grant: Neighborhood Ministries Building, St Luke’s, Cleveland, $55,000 • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training
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OKLAHOMA • “Reclaiming the Gospel of Peace” event, Oklahoma City: assisted in planning, provided support, pro motion, and media relations work • New Church Start grant: Grace Church – Episcopal, $100,000 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Roanridge Trust Grant: Diocese of Texas for training work in the Dioceses of Arkansas/ Oklahoma, Mississippi, Nebraska, Northwest Texas, West Texas and Wyoming – Iona Initiative – Formation for Locally Prepared 21st Century Clergy, $35,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: New Hope kitchen renovation, Christ Church, Tulsa, $20,502 • United Thank Offering Grant: St. Crispin’s Challenge Course,
St. Crispin’s Conference Center, Seminole County, $85,730 • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training • Working with Global Partnerships on design of new models within Indigenous Ministry locations in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Working with Global Partnerships on recruiting within Indigenous Ministry Networks for YASC in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota
OLYMPIA • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • “Truth and Reconciliation” Grant: Diocese of Olympia, Caring for all Creation partnership with the Diocese of the Southern Philippines • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Western Washington, $5,000 • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII
and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, San Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $235,134 • Immigration reform networking project in partnership with Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia, Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper South Carolina, and Washington • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: St. David of Wales’ Episcopal Church: Community Lifeline, $1,500 • Mini-campaign to engage local grassroots in key states in advocacy for Senate passage of the Employment Non-
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Discrimination Act, in partnership with diocesan bishops in Olympia, Pennsylvania, and Southeast Florida • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: GEORGE: Center for Community – An Artist’s Space, $20,000 • New Church Start grant: Our Lady Of Guadalupe Episcopal Church, $100,000 • New Jubilee Center: ARISE (Area of Renton Interfaith Shelter Endeavor), Renton, Washington • New Jubilee Center: Open Hands Food Bank Garden Site (St. Christopher’s Community Church), Olympia • New Jubilee Center: St. David of Wales Episcopal Church, Shelton, Washington • New Jubilee Center: The Church of the Good Shepherd, Federal Way, Washington
• New Opportunities Grant: Building Capacity in Indigenous Latin American Immigrant Episcopal Communities: $3,500 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Scholarships, $2,842 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Video created and shared with the wider Church: “COTA Seattle,” Seattle, WA
• Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training • Working with Global Partnerships on design of new models within Indigenous Ministry locations in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Working with Global Partnerships on recruiting within Indigenous Ministry Networks for YASC in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
OREGON • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, San Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • New Church Start grant: “Bilingual Rebirth,” San Pedro y San Pablo, $60,000 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates
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health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Video created and shared with the wider Church: “Beer ‘n’ Hymns: Portland Abbey,” Portland
PENNSYLVANIA • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Swarthmore College, $2,000 • Civil Discourse in our Church and our Society event: Partnering with Diocese of Pennsylvania • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200 • Episcopal Youth Event (EYE) 2014, Philadelphia; provided
promotion and communication support. • Mini-campaign to engage local grassroots in key states in advocacy for Senate passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, in partnership with diocesan bishops in Olympia, Pennsylvania, and Southeast Florida • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • United Thank Offering Grant: Arts Guild Outreach Organization, St. Luke’s, Germantown, $9,825 • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event) • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
PITTSBURGH • Constable Fund Grant: Province III (for The Diocese
of Pittsburgh) for Reconciling Conversations of Sexuality and Communion, $30,000 • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Reviving Cultural and Ministry Needs of the Penn Hills Area, $20,000 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Roanridge Trust Grant: Lay Ministry Initiative, $20,000
PUERTO RICO • Advocacy: Supported the advocacy witness of the Diocese of Puerto Rico in addressing, with the U.S. government, longstanding concerns about the environmental impact of American military presence in the territory. • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and
the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Diocesan programs, $10,000 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Provincial and regional programs, Province IX, $28,500 • Constable Fund Grant: Virtual Campus Training Project – Global Partnerships, Province IX, with Office of Communications, $43,500 • Sermones que Iluminan
RHODE ISLAND • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina.
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• Campus Ministry Program Grant: New Mexico Highlands University; Armand Hammer United College of the American West, $2,300 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: New Mexico State University; University of Texas at El Paso, $1,000 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: University of New Mexico-Albuquerque; Central New Mexico Community College-Albuquerque, $1,600 • New Jubilee Center: Holy Spirit Emergency Food Pantry, El Paso, Texas • United Thank Offering Grant: Living in the Solution, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Mission, Espanola, New Mexico, $5,000 • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event)
ROCHESTER • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Congregational development and church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica
Ministry Consultation, San Francisco 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Immigration reform networking project in partnership with Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia, Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper South Carolina, and Washington • Multimonth advocacy campaign for comprehensive immigration reform in collaboration with t he Presiding Bishop, Bishops Working for a Just World, and Bishop of Rochester Prince Singh; Participating bishops/ dioceses included Arizona, Central New York, Iowa, North Carolina, Rochester, San Diego, and Western North Carolina. • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates
health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Training with theologians and seminarians through AsiaAmerica Theological Exchange Forum held in Philippines 2013 in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino
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Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester • United Thank Offering Grant: Building a Safe/Healthy Neighborhood: One Family at a Time, St. Mark’s & St. John Episcopal Church, Rochester, $25,195.65 • United Thank Offering Grant: Kitchen Renovation for Outreach, St Thomas, Bath, New York, $53,132
SAN DIEGO • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts.
• Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, S an Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Organizing Latinos for Mission, $20,000 • Multi-month advocacy campaign for comprehensive immigration reform in collaboration with the Presiding Bishop, Bishops Working for a Just World, and Bishop of Rochester Prince Singh; participating bishops/ dioceses included Arizona, Central New York, Iowa, North
Carolina, Rochester, San Diego, and Western North Carolina. • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • United Thank Offering Grant: Homeless mobile showers project, Trinity Chapel Episcopal Church Center Community Project, $65,771 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
SAN JOAQUIN • Loans for the work of reorganization, $1,670,000 • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles,
Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, S an Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event)
EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SOUTH CAROLINA • Grants for Historically Black Colleges, Vorhees, Denmark, $432,623 • Justice and Advocacy Fellowship for Domestic Poverty, the Rev. Susan Heath, sponsored by the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, $24,000 • Loans for the work of reorganization, $1,869,343 • Scholarships, $6,642 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates
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SOUTH DAKOTA • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper
South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • Block grants, $1,400,000 • Collaborative work with the Young Adult Ministries Missioner to bring a delegation of young adults from across The Episcopal Church to Taize in Red Shirt, South Dakota • Indigenous Theological Training Grants: Bishops’ Native Collaborative, for use in Alaska, Montana, Navajoland, North Dakota, South Dakota, $160,100 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Holy Apostles Episcopal Sudanese Church, Diocese of South Dakota, $20,000 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Indigenous Ministry Development through the Bishops’ Native Collaborative, Dioceses of Alaska/ Montana/Navajoland/North Dakota/South Dakota, $60,000 • New Opportunities Grant: Mending Broken Hearts: Healing from Unresolved Grief
and Intergenerational Trauma: $7,000 • New Opportunities Grant: Rosebud Episcopal Mission GLORY Program: $8,000 • Roanridge Trust Grant: The Dioceses of Alaska, Navajoland, North Dakota, and South Dakota: The Bishops’ Native Collaborative, $20,000 • Scholarships, $4,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Community Building for Winyan Omniciye and Fusion4, Standing Rock Sioux Mission, $65,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Renovation of Holy Comforter Church, Lower Brule Indian Reservation, $65,856 • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training • Working with Global Partnerships on design of new models
within Indigenous Ministry locations in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Working with Global Partnerships on recruiting within Indigenous Ministry Networks for YASC in collaboration with the Dioceses of Alaska, Ecuador Central, Fond du Lac, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Olympia, and South Dakota • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
SOUTHEAST FLORIDA • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $1,204,821 • Mini-campaign to engage local grassroots in key states in advocacy for Senate passage of the Employment Non-
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Discrimination Act, in partnership with diocesan bishops in Olympia, Pennsylvania, and Southeast Florida • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: St. Joe’s Unplugged, $20,000 • Scholarships, $2,642 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Haiti) A Joyful Sound: Empowering Haitian Children Through Music, $30,875
SOUTHERN OHIO • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Ohio State University, $2,300 • Conant Grant: Bexley Seabury Federation, $6,734.50 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $394,379 • Immigration reform networking project in partnership with Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia, Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper South Carolina, and Washington
• Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Urban Core Mission Enterprise Zone, $20,000 • Office of Black Ministries Rising Stars Program: The office helps to implement the program to ensure mentor training, background checks and Safe Church Training in the Dioceses of Central Florida, Long Island, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Southern Ohio. • United Thank Offering Grant: Confluence House in Franklinton, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Columbus, $9,875 • United Thank Offering Grant: First Tuesdays in the Garden of Eat’n, a Food Security Project, St. James, Columbus with Clintonville Resource Center, $20,837 • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event) • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
SOUTHERN VIRGINIA • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s) • Grants for Historically Black College: St. Paul’s, Lawrenceville, $166,220
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Cornerstone Kids, $3,000 • Mission Enterprise Zone Grant: Latino Ministry Leadership Development, $20,000 • New Jubilee Center: Christ Church Outreach Center, Bradenton, Florida • Roanridge Trust Grant: Church of the Holy Spirit, Safety Harbor, Florida, $12,000 • Scholarships, $2,924.21 • United Thank Offering Grant: Family Support Program, St. Francis Children’s Day Care, Inc., Tampa, $5,800
SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200 • United Thank Offering Grant: Dental Equipment for a Mobile
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Unit to Reach Underserved Children, R.E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church, Lexington, $41,239
SPOKANE • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Higher Education Ministry at Eastern Washington University, $5,000 • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, S an Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: St. Luke’s
Episcopal Church, Coeur d’Alene, $1,500 • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: The GOAL Project, $1,500 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: PINE (Pacific Inland Northwest Exchange), $20,000 • New Jubilee Center: Generating Hope – Noah’s Ark, Wapato, Washington • Roanridge Trust Grant: Congregational Developer Intensive Trainer Workshop, $20,000 • Scholarships, $20,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Holy Trinity Episcopal Church kitchen expansion, $41,450 • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training
SPRINGFIELD • Campus Ministry Program Grant: The Chapel of St. John the Divine at the University of Illinois, $4,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.)
TAIWAN • Block grants, $136,500 • Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based
Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Congregational development and church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica Ministry Consultation, San Francisco 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles,
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Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, S an Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event)
TENNESSEE • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Tennessee Technological University, $1,150 • Conant Grants: The University of the South, $14,210 • Justice and Advocacy Fellowship for Environmental Stewardship,
Cynthia Coe, sponsored by the DuBose Conference Center, an Episcopal facility owned by the three Episcopal dioceses located in Tennessee, $48,000 • Justice and Advocacy Fellowship for Environmental Stewardship, Sarah Nolan, sponsored by The Beecken Center at the School of Theology at Sewanee, $48,000 • Office of Government Relations hosted youth D.C. mission trip for discussion on politics, faith, and advocacy. The youth minister from this trip kept a blog that was then posted on Episcopal Public Policy Network action center blog http://advocacy.episcopalchurch.org/app/ document/3383980 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training
TEXAS • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $1,163,189
• Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Roanridge Trust Grant: Diocese of Texas for training work in the Dioceses of Arkansas/ Oklahoma, Mississippi, Nebraska, Northwest Texas, West Texas and Wyoming – Iona Initiative – Formation for Locally Prepared 21st Century Clergy, $35,000
• United Thank Offering Grant: Kids on the Block – Central Texas, St. Martin’s, Copperas Cove, $4,205.95 • Represented at World Refugee Day advocacy gathering in Washington, D.C.
UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Presbyterian College, $1,850 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Wofford College; Converse College; University of South Carolina Upstate, $800
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• Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Immigration reform networking project in partnership with Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia, Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper South Carolina, and Washington • Justice and Advocacy Fellowship for Domestic Poverty, the Rev. Susan Heath, sponsored by the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, $24,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The
Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Haiti) Ecole Bon Saveur Latrine Project, Cange, Haiti, $25,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Gravatt Farm Project, Gravatt Camp and Conference Center, $28,385 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
UTAH • Constable Fund: General Convention 2015 Children’s Program - Standing Commission on Lifelong Formation and
Education with Province VIII and the Lifelong Christian Formation Office of The Episcopal Church’s Formation and Vocation Ministries Team: Alaska, Arizona, California, Eastern Oregon, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Idaho, Los Angeles, Navajoland Area Mission, Nevada, Northern California, Olympia, Oregon, San Diego, S an Joaquin, Spokane, Taiwan, Utah, $6,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.)
• Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • United Thank Offering Grant: St. James Food Bank Ministry, Salt Lake City, $6,506 • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training
VENEZUELA • Block grants, $263,340 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Diocesan programs, $7,500 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Continued theological education program, the Rev. Canon Jose Francisco Salazar, $4,500 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant:
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Provincial and regional programs, Province IX, $28,500 • Constable Fund Grant: Virtual Campus Training Project – Global Partnerships, Province IX, with Office of Communications, $43,500 • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Sermones que Iluminan • United Thank Offering Grant: Property Purchase for Centro Misionero San Andres for day care programs for Haitian refugees, $70,000
VERMONT • Constable Fund Grant: Stirrings of the Spirit, $14,000 • Roanridge Trust Grant: Franklin Alliance for Rural Ministries, $5,000 • Roanridge Trust Grant: Vestry “Re-orientation,” $8,300
VIRGIN ISLANDS • Block grants, $342,342 • Commission for Theological Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CETALC) Grant: Diocesan programs, $9,000 • Scholarships, $5,000
VIRGINIA • All-day conferences around the new vision for Latino/Hispanic ministry focusing on NGLs [New Generation Latinos] in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • Campus Ministry Program Grant: United College Ministries in Northern Virginia serving George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College, $2,500 • “Commonplace” network gathering for campus and young-adult ministry leaders
• Conant Grants: Virginia Theological Seminary, $71,077 • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200 • Episcopalians engaged in climate-change advocacy through physical presence in Washington, D.C. • Intern placement in Office of Government Relations • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Trinity Episcopal Bread and Roses Ministry, $20,000 • New Church Start grant: St. Gabriel’s, $100,000 • New Jubilee Center: Bread and Roses Ministry, Charlottesville • New Jubilee Center: Hanover Faith Clinics, Ashland • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Provided Mission Developers training in both English and
Spanish in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia. • Scholarships, $2,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon,
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Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – South Sudan) School Vehicle for Hope & Resurrection Secondary School, $49,575 • United Thank Offering Grant: Bread & Roses Ministry of Trinity Church, Trinity Episcopal Church, Charlottesville, $17,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Guidance counseling for at-risk youth, K-5, St. Andrew’s School, $25,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Central Tanganyika) Solar Power for Mwitikira Church (St. Andrews), $7,000 • Represented at World Refugee Day advocacy gathering in Washington, D.C. • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
WASHINGTON • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • Collaboration with Washington National Cathedral to host a number of high profile events: ANZAC Day, Commemoration of Commodore Dewey, Blessing of “Rolling Thunder” bikes on Memorial Day, Veteran’s Day Weekend Prayer Breakfast, U.S. Marine Corps birthday worship event, and collaboration on a variety of veteran initiatives • “Commonplace” network gathering for campus and young-adult ministry leaders
• Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200 • Episcopalians engaged in climate-change advocacy through physical presence in Washington, D.C. • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Immigration reform networking project in partnership with Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia, Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper South Carolina, and Washington • Intern placement in Office of Government Relations
• Justice and Advocacy Fellowship for Domestic Poverty, the Rev. Sarah Monroe, sponsored by the Episcopal Network Collaboration (Episcopal Network for Economic Justice, Episcopal Ecological Network and Union of Black Episcopalians), $24,000 • New Jubilee Center: The Episcopal Church Networks Collaborative, Washington, D.C. • Office of Black Ministries New Visions partnerships are in the following dioceses: Long Island, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, and Newark. The second phase includes Atlanta, California, and Washington. • Scholarships, $7,500 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting
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agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event) • Wintertalk/Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training • Wintertalk/Women, youth and advocacy training • Represented at World Refugee Day advocacy gathering in Washington, D.C.
WEST MISSOURI • Roanridge Trust Grant: The Bishop Kemper School for Ministry: Kansas, Nebraska, West Missouri, Western Kansas, $50,000
• Roanridge Trust Grant: Episcopal Churches of the Ozarks, $10,620 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.)
WEST TENNESSEE • Justice and Advocacy Fellowship for Environmental Stewardship, Cynthia Coe, sponsored by the DuBose Conference Center, an Episcopal facility owned by the three Episcopal dioceses located in Tennessee, $48,000
• Scholarships, $5,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
WEST TEXAS • New Jubilee Center: St. Paul’s Community Ministry, Brady, Texas • Roanridge Trust Grant: Diocese of Texas for training work in the Dioceses of Arkansas/
Oklahoma, Mississippi, Nebraska, Northwest Texas, West Texas and Wyoming – Iona Initiative – Formation for Locally Prepared 21st Century Clergy, $35,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
WEST VIRGINIA • “Truth and Reconciliation” Grant: Diocese of West
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Virginia and West Virginia Council of Churches • “Commonplace” network gathering for campus and young-adult ministry leaders • Constable Fund Grant: Building & Enhancing Anti-Racism Ministry throughout Province III, $13,200 • Jubilee Development Grant: St. John’s House Learning and Development Center, $32,200 • Roanridge Trust Grant: Reading Camps – West Virginia, $24,000 • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual
misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • United Thank Offering Grant: High Rocks for Girls Kitchen Expansion, $21,101
WESTERN KANSAS • Roanridge Trust Grant: The Bishop Kemper School for Ministry: Kansas, Nebraska, West Missouri, Western Kansas, $50,000 • Roanridge Trust Grant: Western Kansas Clergy Training Program, $10,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Trauma recovery: outdoor retreat area for emotionally disturbed girls, St. Francis Community Service, Inc., A Community Partnership, $36,139
WESTERN LOUISIANA • Jubilee Ministry Program Impact Grant: Holy Cross Episcopal Church, $1,200
• Roanridge Trust Grant: The Servant Leadership Corps, $10,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Primary care for the vulnerable in northwest Louisiana, $12,669
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant, included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Mount Holyoke, $5,000 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $231,597 • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dio-
ceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, • Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Lawrence House Service Corps, $20,000 • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Worcester Urban Mission Strategy, $100,000 • Scholarships, $5,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Support for Victims of Domestic Violence, Springfield Day Nursery Corp. d/b/a Square One, $11,349 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion Diocese – Kumasi, Ghana) Solar Backup Electricity for Mampong Babies Home, $17,368
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• Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event)
WESTERN MICHIGAN • Campus Ministry Leadership Grant: Universities and community colleges in Grand Rapids, $20,148 • Campus Ministry Program Grant: Hope College, $5,000 • Constable Fund Grant: Celebrating Diversity in the Lower Peninsula – Province V (Dioceses of Eastern Michigan, Michigan and Western Michigan), $26,450 • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $260,287 • United Thank Offering Grant: El Corazón, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Grand Haven, $11,500
WESTERN NEW YORK • Federal Refugee Resettlement funds distributed, $503,640
• United Thank Offering Grant: Eastern Erie Deanery Community Health Initiative, $23,011.61
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA • Diocesan convention video: produced in partnership, one video • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Mission Enterprise Zone grant: Kairos West Community Center, $20,000 • Multi-month advocacy campaign for comprehensive immigration reform in collaboration with the
Presiding Bishop, Bishops Working for a Just World, and Bishop of Rochester Prince Singh; participating bishops/ dioceses included Arizona, Central New York, Iowa, North Carolina, Rochester, San Diego, and Western North Carolina. • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • State Public Policy Network development • United Thank Offering Grant: New flooring for food pantry, Calvary Episcopal Church, Hendersonville, North Carolina, $7,150 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
WYOMING • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Roanridge Trust Grant: Diocese of Texas for training work in the
Dioceses of Arkansas/ Oklahoma, Mississippi, Nebraska, Northwest Texas, West Texas and Wyoming – Iona Initiative – Formation for Locally Prepared 21st Century Clergy, $35,000 • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s)
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