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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?