Growth and Development

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Growth and Development

Looking at the social and demographic characteristics of the local community sheds light on the people to which we hope to minister. Looking at trends in membership, average worship attendance, and financial giving sheds light on congregational strength and whether current patterns indicate growth, decline or stability.By following the instructions below, you can display and print two charts and a community demographic profile. The two charts track membership, participation, and giving over the most recently available eleven years for your congregation and your diocese. These data are from annual Parochial Reports. The community demographic profile will give you a demographic overview of the zip code area in which your church is located. Only one zip code profile will be displayed. Profiles of additional zip code areas are available from the research office, congregational development.

MDG Sunday is July 8

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July 8th has been designated Millennium Development Goals Sunday in the Episcopal Church celebrating the mid-point of the UNs MDG goal to reduce extreme poverty in the world by 2015.Materials to celebrate a special Millennium Development Goals Sunday include a complete worship service with sermon and prayers of the people, bulletin inserts and background information. Curriculum for children and youth are also included with PowerPoint presentations of MDGs and another with an MDG atlas from the World Bank. Gods Mission in the World, a study guide provided by the Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations was used for adult curriculum.

These materials are available for your use on July 8 or at any other time. They were prepared by the Diocese of Texas and are available here [PDF].

Green Faith Fellowship Program

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Episcopal Life Online – NEWS
[Episcopal News Service] GreenFaith, New Jersey’s interfaith coalition for the environment, is launching the GreenFaith Fellowship Program, the first comprehensive education and training program in the U.S. to prepare lay and ordained leaders from diverse religious traditions for religiously based environmental leadership.
“This program will offer these leaders the opportunity for educational, spiritual and vocational growth and skill development in religious environmentalism,” said Episcopal priest the Rev. Fletcher Harper, GreenFaith’s executive director. “We believe they will make a lasting contribution to the development of an environmentally just and sustainable world.”