MISSION
Doing the Work that Needs Doing…Together Session 2
Does your parish or neighborhood have a food pantry? A place to provide rent and utility assistance? A clothes closet? A free meals program? If the answer is “yes” -- or if you wish you were involved in these ministries -- you’ve probably at times thought, “it’s never enough,” or “there are too many people out of work...”, or even “why are some people we serve so hard to work with?” Come and share the joys and the frustrations of working with the very poor in our down economy. We’ll receive strength from one another’s stories, share theological insights about our work, and toss ideas around about how to do the work that needs doing . You’ll come away feeling less alone on the frontlines of hunger and desperation and being amazed at what, together, we’re accomplishing.
The Rev. Claiborne Jones, Director and Vicar of Emmaus House, Atlanta & other Emmaus House staff
Ministry Mentors: How to Create Effective Outreach Ministries Session 3
Episcopal Charities Foundation has the privilege of hearing from some of the most effective and creative outreach ministries around our diocese. Come hear the stories of how some of these ministries developed and learn best practices from the wisdom garnered by fellow Episcopalians through their own hands-on experiences. You’ll hear about food pantries, volunteer medical clinics, a voucher ministry for personal hygiene and cleaning supplies, and a parish-based model for helping families involved with the court system reunite with their children. You’ll see that parish size, budget or location doesn’t have to limit what you can do on God’s behalf in your community!
Ms. Ginny Heckel, ECF Board Chair, The Rev. Canon Debbie Shew, Director of ECF and representatives from ECF-funded ministries in parishes around the diocese.
“New Monasticism” and the Good Earth Session 2
Paul Clever, a 2009 Fellow of the Episcopal Church Foundation, runs the Good Earth Farm which grows and gleans food for approximately 35 food pantries in southern Ohio. In 2009 they donated over 10,000 pounds of fresh food and had over 300 different volunteers from area churches, the neighborhood, and visiting groups. The Good Earth Farm is the principal form of mission and community engagement for the Common Friars, a community of young adults who live together at the farm and have aspirations of becoming a new religious order in the Episcopal Church. The workshop will share these efforts, but, more importantly, make connections between discipleship, sustainability, and life in common.
Mr. Paul Clever, Farmer, the Good Earth Farm and 2009 Fellow of the Episcopal Church Foundation. The Good Earth Farm grows and gleans food for approximately 35 food pantries in southern Ohio and is the principal form of mission and community engagement for the Common friars, an aspiring new religious order of young adults in the Episcopal Church.
What’s New with MDGs and ERD? Session 3
This workshop will show and tell what is new with the Millennium Development Goals Episcopal Relief and Development. This will include information on the “MDGs in the Workshop Rotation Model.” This unit was developed by Nancy Eubanks, Christian Education Director at St. James in Marietta.
Ms. Deborah Betsill, ERD diocesan coordinator and Ms. Nancy Eubanks, Christian Education Director, both from St. James’ Episcopal Church in Marietta
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