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Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia. • Health care chaplaincy. (The Mission Department of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society facilitates health care chaplains of The Episcopal Church. In certifying health care chaplains for the Association of Professional Chaplains and other accrediting agencies, our office works on behalf of diocesan bishops, ensuring that the chaplains are in good standing in the diocese, have completed sexual misconduct training and have been commissioned by the diocese or parish as a chaplain.) • Training of clergy involved in Latino/Hispanic ministry in partnership with ELCA and Dioceses of Arizona, Chicago, Connecticut, Eastern Oregon, Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • United Thank Offering Grant: Growing Food and Building Community, Ascension School Camp and Conference Center, $11,265 • Urban Mission participation facilitated by the Missionary Society (following Episcopal Youth Event) EASTON • Church-planting initiatives with new Filipino and Southeast Asian groups using Asset-Based Congregational Development approach in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Congregational development and church planting training with clergy and lay leaders through “EAM@40” Asiamerica Ministry Consultation, San Francisco 2013, in partnership with the Dioceses of California, Connecticut, Easton, El Camino 129