ABCD
PILOT PROJECTS
INVESTED IN BY
THE MISSIONARY
SOCIETY:
THE 32ND AVENUE
JUBILEE CENTER
in Denver, a predominately Latino/Hispanic
congregation seeking
ways to reach out to a
re-gentrifying community
LUTHERAN-EPISCOPAL
ADVOCACY in Nevada,
in order to equip advocacy capacity building
in a unique partnership
between an Episcopal
diocese and two ELCA
synods
ASSET-BASED COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
DOMESTIC POVERTY
FELLOWSHIPS
The Missionary Society, in
partnership with the School of
Theology of the University of the
South (Sewanee), and Episcopal
Relief & Development convened a
churchwide consultation to develop an Episcopal curriculum for
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and to create a process of training trainers to partner
with local communities engaged in
ABCD. Building on this, we hosted
a training event with representatives from 10 dioceses at Wintertalk, an annual meeting sponsored
by Province VIII in which Native
Episcopalians explore questions of
ministry together.
Through a competitive process
that drew interest throughout
The Episcopal Church, the
Domestic and Foreign Missionary
Society awarded two Justice and
Advocacy Fellowships to Episcopalians for the purpose of engaging in yearlong, domestic-poverty
focused mission work.
JUBILEE MINISTRY
In addition to more than 20
traditional grants of $850 to
$1500, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society awarded two large-scale development
grants: $35,000 to St. Paul’s
Church, Kansas City, Kansas for
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