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Finding Hope in Hard Times: Seven Spiritual Practices, a free online resource from the national church (2009)

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

In an effort to deal with today’s economy and reality, the Episcopal Church is offering a free resource, Finding Hope in Hard Times: Seven Spiritual Practices, designed to provide faith communities with practical and spiritual disciplines in order to nurture a culture of generosity and hope, in the midst of fear, anxiety and despair.

“Christian hope is based on trust,” explained the Rev. Laurel Johnston, the Episcopal Church’s Program Officer for Stewardship. “Trust that God will continue to fulfill God’s promise in a new way to each generation that leads to freedom, free to be the people God intended us to be. The Finding Hope in Hard Times resource guide invites communities of faith to take on seven disciplines that nurture hope and a path towards spiritual and financial freedom.” (more…)

Are you familiar with the work of the Church Periodical Club? (2009)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Annie Rayman recently told us, “When I attended the diocese convention, I was surprised how little any one knew about our organization’s mission and work!”

CPC has two major initiatives. Miles of Pennies collects monies for children’s books. Each grant is for $844.80, or the amount of one mile of pennies laid flat. The other program CPC collects for is their National Book Funds initiative. This fund is designated for adults and helps many seminarians from abroad studying in the U.S. Annie reports that the greatest request is often for this grant and, “our funds were low this year.” (more…)