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Outreach Activities

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click here to download a paper on resources for service & mission from the Diocese of Connecticut

  

   

Activities

Prayer Shawl Ministry

http://www.shawlministry.com/

Children’s Sabbath & the Children’s Defense Fund

http://www.childrensdefense.org/

Millennium Development Goals

click here for the Diocesan webpage on the MDGs

    

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Mission: Literacy & Education

Kids Hope

http://www.kidshopeusa.org/

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Mission: Hunger

Episcopal Relief & Development Fund

Working in partnership with the worldwide Church, ecumenical agencies and local organizations, Episcopal Relief & Development saves lives and strengthens communities around the world.

Our programs work toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015.

http://www.er-d.org/

     

Bread for the World is a nationwide Christian citizens movement seeking justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers. http://www.bread.org

CARE is an international humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. http://www.care.org/

     

CROP Walk is a community based fund raising event that raises money for local hunger-fighting agencies as well as the international relief and development efforts of Church World Service. http://www.churchworldservice.org/CROP/

   

Food for the Poor ministers to spiritually renew impoverished people throughout Latin America and the Caribbean by raising funds and providing direct relief assistance to the poor, usually by purchasing specifically requested materials and distributing them through the churches and charity organizations already operating in areas of need. http://www.foodforthepoor.org/

   

Heifer Project International combats hunger, alleviates poverty, and restores the environment by providing appropriate livestock, training, and related services to small-scale farmers worldwide. http://heifer.org

      

Souper Bowl

http://www.souperbowl.org/

  

The Society of St. Andrew

(http://www.endhunger.org/) is an ecumenical Christian ministry that feeds the hungry all year long by saving fresh produce that would otherwise go to waste and giving it to the needy. It includes several projects:

• The Potato Project has redirected 45,000-pound loads of fresh, nutritious produce to soup kitchens, Native American reservations, food pantries, low-income housing areas, local churches, and other hunger agencies for distribution to the poor.!

• The Gleaning Network coordinates volunteers, growers, and distribution agencies to salvage food for the needy.

• Harvest of Hope is an ecumenical study, worship, and action mission trip program

 

    

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Mission: Housing

Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide. Habitat is founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a simple, decent, affordable place to live in dignity and safety. http://www.habitat.org/

    

Trevor's Campaign (blankets for the homeless) It was a cold December night in 1983 on which 11- year-old Trevor Ferrell saw a TV newscast about people living on the streets. Those images stirred compassion deep within Trevor and he pleaded with his parents to take him to downtown Philadelphia so he could give his blanket and pillow to the first homeless person he met. In ensuing weeks, with the help of family, classmates and neighbors, Trevor made nightly trips into Philadelphia to distribute food, clothing and blankets to the needy. Through the generosity of hundreds of citizens and businesses, this little "campaign" soon grew into places to stay and an entire array of programs. http://www.trevorscampaign.org

   

Tools of Hope and Blanket is a program of Church World Service that supplies blankets, tents and emergency supplies to people in crisis. Curriculum and resources are available. http://www.churchworldservice.org/tools-blankets/index.html

  

    

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Mission: The Environment

Children’s Rain Forest (Monteverde Conservation League) is a private, nonprofit association of Costa Rican and International members. It manages and preserves for current and future generations the Children's Eternal Rain Forest (Bosque Nuboso Eterno de Los Ninos) , which contains over 50.000 acres; the largest private reserve in Central America. The MCL carries out various projects related to research, education, protection, habitat rehabilitation and volunteering. Its mission is to conserve, preserve and rehabilitate tropical ecosystems and their biodiversity. http://www.monteverdeinfo.com/

   

National Arbor Day Foundation helps people plant and care for trees and encourage the celebration of Arbor Day to advance global environmental stewardship for the benefit of this and future generations. http://www.arborday.org

   

Pennies for the Planet is a project of the World Wildlife Federation (WWF). Since 1994, it has been alerting people around the world to problems faced in various eco-regions around the world, while inspiring people to take action. This annual campaign has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for conservation projects around the world... one penny at a time. http://www.worldwildlife.org/windows/pennies/

    

     

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Mission: World Peace and Conflict Resolution

  

Care for Returning Veterans.  Ministry to persons retuning from war zones to their families.  http://www.elca.org/Growing-In-Faith/Vocation/Lutheran-Partners/Complete-Issue/090506/090506_08.aspx

     

Kids Meeting Kids promotes peace, fair treatment of young people and a better world http://www.kidsmeetingkids.org/

     

Episcopal Peace Fellowship. The Episcopal Peace Fellowship is a national organization connecting all who seek a deliberate response to injustice and violence and want to pray, study and take action for justice and peace in our communities, our church, and the world. We are called to do justice, dismantle violence, and strive to be peace makers. 

http://epfnational.org/