Episcopal Church grants available for campus ministries

Applications are now being accepted for grant proposals from dioceses, parishes or community college/college/university campuses for new as well as current campus ministries in higher education institutions in the Episcopal Church.   The Episcopal Church Office for Young Adult and Campus Ministries is offering two categories of grants:   A series of Campus Ministries grants […]

Episcopal Church, ELCA Presiding Bishops issue 2013 World Refugee Day statement

Still time to register for the 2013 TENS Conference for in-person attendance or webcast participation

There’s still time to register for the 2013 Conference of The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS) on July 12 and 13 at the Episcopal Commons of Utah in Salt Lake City, Diocese of Utah. And, if traveling isn’t possible for in-person attendance, participation from afar is being offered through live webcasting. For the first time […]

Sally Johnson awarded House of Deputies Medal

The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies, presented the House of Deputies medal to Sally Johnson, Esq. during the 2013 Episcopal Chancellors Network Conference. Johnson, who recently retired as vice president of risk management and education for the Church Pension Group, was awarded the House of Deputies medal in May. In presenting […]

President of House of Deputies invited to visit Anglican Church in Mexico

The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of The Episcopal Church House of Deputies, will visit the Anglican Church in Mexico’s VII General Synod on June 14 and 15. The synod will elect a new primate, who will succeed Bishop Carlos Touché-Porter, primate and bishop of the Diocese of Mexico, whose term as primate is concluding. […]

United Thank Offering Awards: $1.5 million for Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion mission and ministry

Executive Council awards Episcopal Church Constable Fund Grants

The Episcopal Church Executive Council announced the recipients of the Constable Fund Grants, totaling $535,000, for the 2013 grant cycle.  The announcement was made by Anne Watkins, an Executive Council member from the Diocese of Connecticut and chair of the Constable Fund Grant Review Committee, during the Executive Council meeting, currently gathered in Baltimore, Maryland. […]

Rosalie Simmonds Ballentine elected Episcopal Church lay representative to Anglican Consultative Council

The Executive Council, currently meeting in Baltimore, MD, elected Rosalie Simmonds Ballentine of the Diocese of the Virgin Islands, to serve as the Episcopal Church lay representative on the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC). Ballentine is the chancellor of the Diocese of the Virgin Islands since 1995 and has been a deputy to General Convention since […]

EYE14 location announced

The popular Episcopal Youth Event (EYE) will be held at Villanova University in suburban Philadelphia. Slated for July 9-13, 2014, EYE14 is being planned in partnership with the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The announcement was made June 8 by Bishop Clifton Daniel of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, to Executive Council, currently meeting in Maryland.  “Villanova University […]

President of House of Deputies Opening Remarks to Executive Council

Episcopal Church President of the House of Deputies the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings presented the following remarks at the opening of the Executive Council Meeting at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum Heights, MD (Diocese of Maryland). Executive Council Opening RemarksJune 7, 2013 The Rev. Gay Clark JenningsPresident of the House of […]