Report to the Church 2015 | Page 124

124 Episcopal Church of the Holy Advent (Our Community Cares, Inc.), $12,800 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