Scott Rands
2025 New Episcopal Community Grant Recipients
Leer en español The following projects were awarded grant funding—totaling $442,166—by The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council during its October 2025 meeting. Read more about New Episcopal Community grants. Discernment Grants (up to $5,000 each) Seed Grants (up to $30,000 each) Growth Grants (up to $30,000 each) Harvest Grants (up to $40,000 each) Beneficiarios de las […]
Breaking Bread, Building Hope
Hope and Bread Church, in Portland “We gather each Sunday in a neighborhood park along the messy border between “Portland Proper” and East Portland, the latter distinguished by striking economic and cultural diversity, along with fewer trees and sidewalks. The park is an oasis for our unsheltered neighbors, as is the dinner and simple worship […]
More Than Sunday: Good Shepherd’s Everyday Ministry
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Arkansas “Good Shepherd is an inclusive new community in the growing Northwest Arkansas corridor. Specifically, we are located in Pea Ridge, Arkansas. While still a small community on Sunday Mornings the work of God happens in so many other ways. The church sponsors a food pantry serving 20-30 families a […]
Saturday Night Worship That Feels Like a Retreat
Incarnation Chapel, in the Diocese of Long Island “Incarnation Chapel is a new worshiping community with the collaborative leadership of two priests. We meet on Saturday evenings to welcome the sabbath with a contemplative Eucharist in the round, join in acapella song, and have a community meal together. Sharing the Lord’s table and the dinner […]
Welcoming the Stranger, Building Community
Latino Ministry at Trinity, Haverhill, in the Diocese of Massachusetts “Sofia and her daughter left an Evangelical church they felt unwelcome, and joined Trinity based on relationships with Dinah’s House members. Sofia became very engaged, as her gifts for hospitality and prayer were quickly recognized. She became coffee hour coordinator, led prayed at meetings, offered […]
Healing, Hope, and Home at Journey Church
Journey Church, in the Diocese of Missouri “Journey Church focuses on welcoming marginalized people. Like a young mom, four months clean, sharing a prayer she wrote for people in addiction during worship. A gay man saying he is hated in this town, but in church he feels loved. A homeless woman organizing donated clothes and […]
Healing Through Stories: Northside’s Unique Ministry
Northside Episcopal Church, Episcopal Diocese of Texas “Northside Episcopal is strengthening the human family one gathering at a time! At worship and around the coffee table, we transform our trauma and loss into resilience and strength. Our roving Community Café brings people together in schools, residences, community centers and more to share life experience and gain wisdom […]
Growing Faith in Digital Spaces
SpiritBound Faith Digital Mission, through the Diocese of New Hampshire “Since late Spring 2024 when the Mission for SpiritBound Digital Mission began serving part-time, SpiritBound has seen substantial growth in reach, engagement, and transformation. Notably the amount of people engaged in this ministry has increased by one third in the intervening months. SpiritBound has also began a […]
A Refuge of Faith and Music in St. Louis
Grace African Christian Connections, in the Diocese of Missouri “GACC has been a place of refuge and joy to many Africans in St. Louis. Music Classes, which resulted in a wonderful children’s Band, our Wellness Fund, through which members of GACC members support each other financially, a professional studio to help us do more online […]
Art, Identity, and Worship
Episcopal Mission in Sunnyside, Diocese of Long Island “In early 2024 we experimented with a chanted Compline service. In July, the alto in our quartet had to find a last-minute sub, who turned out to be a non-binary person with deep and ambivalent roots in the Episcopal church. We just created an artist residency to […]