• Immigration reform networking project in partnership with
Dioceses of Atlanta, Maryland,
North Carolina, Ohio, Olympia,
Rochester, Southern Ohio, Upper
South Carolina, and Washington
• Multimonth advocacy campaign
for comprehensive immigration
reform in collaboration with the
Presiding Bishop, Bishops
Working for a Just World, and
Bishop of Rochester Prince
Singh; participating bishops/
dioceses included Arizona,
Central New York, Iowa, North
Carolina, Rochester, San Diego,
and Western North Carolina.
• 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.
• Office of Government Relations
hosted youth D.C. mission trip
for discussion on faith, policy,
and politics.
• Participation in the annual
United Nations Commission
of the Status of Women
• State Public Policy Network
development
• 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.)
• United Thank Offering
Grant: Circles Chatham,
St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal
Church, Pittsboro, $14,275
• Wintertalk/Asset-Based
Community Development
(ABCD) training
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