Report to the Church 2015 | Page 145

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 14 5