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14 2 Long Island, Maryland, and North Carolina, with attendance of clergy and lay persons from more than thirty dioceses • 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 Real, Hawaii, Long Island, Los Angeles, New York, Rochester, and Taiwan • Holy Week 2013 Stations of the Cross in Washington, D.C.; dioceses and bishops represented include Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Oregon, Long Island, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Milwaukee, Navajoland Area Mission, Newark, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Upper South Carolina, Washington, Western Massachusetts, and Western North Carolina. • Scholarships, $1,642 • Office of Black Ministries New Visions partnerships are in the following dioceses: Long Island, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, and Newark. The second phase includes Atlanta, California, and Washington. • Office of Black Ministries Rising Stars Program: The office helps to implement the program to ensure mentor training, background checks and Safe Church Training in the Dioceses of: Central Florida, Long Island, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Southern Ohio • Organized celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month in the Dioceses of Long Island and New York • Participation in the annual United Nations Commission of the Status of Women • Three-day convocational gatherings of Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and South Asian clergy and lay leaders in partnership