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192 Ecuador Litoral, Los Angeles, Maryland, Michigan, Newark, and Virginia • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – South Sudan) School Vehicle for Hope & Resurrection Secondary School, $49,575 • United Thank Offering Grant: Bread & Roses Ministry of Trinity Church, Trinity Episcopal Church, Charlottesville, $17,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: Guidance counseling for at-risk youth, K-5, St. Andrew’s School, $25,000 • United Thank Offering Grant: (Companion – Central Tanganyika) Solar Power for Mwitikira Church (St. Andrews), $7,000 • Represented at World Refugee Day advocacy gathering in Washington, D.C. • Young Adult Service Corps (YASC) participant(s) WASHINGTON • “Advocacy to Challenge Domestic Poverty” conference for bishops and young adults, in partnership with Bishops Working for a Just World and with the resources of a Constable Fund grant; included participants from the Dioceses of Connecticut, Dallas, Eastern Michigan, Michigan, Minnesota, Navajoland Area Mission, North Carolina, Olympia, Rochester, San Diego, South Dakota, Upper South Carolina, Washington, and Western Massachusetts. • Collaboration with Washington National Cathedral to host a number of high profile events: ANZAC Day, Commemoration of Commodore Dewey, Blessing of “Rolling Thunder” bikes on Memorial Day, Veteran’s Day Weekend Prayer Breakfast, U.S. Marine Corps birthda