How can you serve your neighbor?
This spring Episcopal Charities of
Long Island has awarded grants to
three parish outreach projects:
- St. Mary’s Church in Hampton
Bays – Pre-school Vacation Bible
School
- Church of the Resurrection – Saturday
Senior Lunch
- St. Stephen & St. Martin’s, Brooklyn – Senior Wellness Program
We would like to help you serve your
neighbor through the Archdeaconry and
Church Based Grants Program.
This program began in 1997 to
assist parishes in their local outreach
efforts and as the churches
find ways to serve their community.
Since its inception, it has awarded
grants totaling over $600,000 to parish
ministries. Many times parishes
will identify a need in their neighborhood,
but need a little capital to get it
started. Episcopal Charities wants to
help by investing in your project!
We offer grants for up to three
years as seed money for your new
outreach initiative or to expand an
outreach ministry. The first year,
grants are available to fund up to
75% of the cost of the ministry, maximum
grant $10,000. Grants are available
for up to $4,000 for the second
and third years or the ministry, with
a cap of funding no more than 60%
of the ministry’s budget the second
year, and 35% in the third year.
Look around your community!
What do you see? In this economic
lean time, how can you better serve
your neighbor?
St. Stephen and St. Martin’s saw
a community of seniors gathering at
the church on Thursday mornings.
As a way of honoring and serving
these men and women who have
lived lives of service themselves, the
parish community has begun to offer
a Senior Wellness Program to provide
resources to enhance their spiritual,
emotional, and physical well
being. This program is for the wider
community, to provide food, fellowship,
support and education to help
these elders live healthier lives.
St. Mary’s in Hampton Bays saw
a need for pre-school vacation bible
school as an outgrowth of their current
nursery school program. This
program will reach out into the
wider community to parents who
need a program for their children
outside the regular school year.
We are pleased to award a grant
for a second year to Church of the
Resurrection, Richmond Hill for their
Saturday Senior Lunch. The director
of this program said that all of
the seniors who come to their program
have one common comment
to make: they come for the opportunity
to socialize and enjoy the home
cooked meals served by people who
make them feel welcome. Coming
together in community and feeding
people is what we do as Christians!
If your parish or deanery or archdeaconry
has an idea for a ministry
and you need a little capital, please
call or write for more information.
The deadline is June 15 for the Fall
2009 grants. If you would like to be
an angel and give a gift to help further
fund this grants program we’d
love to hear from you, too!
Please contact the Rev. E. Clare
Nesmith, Executive Director, by calling
516 248-4800, ext. 19 or sending
an email to: ecli@dioceseli.org
Please give generously to Episcopal
Charities of Long Island, 36
Cathedral Avenue, P.O. Box 510, Garden
City, NY 11530. To use a credit
card, please go to our website www.episcopalcharitiesli.org or call 516
248-4800, ext. 19 and speak with Mrs.
Nancy Kennelly, Administrative Assistant.
When you make a donation
in memory of or in honor of someone,
their name will be recorded in a
Book of Remembrance. Those honored
will receive a letter of acknowledgement
indicating your gift.
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