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Commission on Global & Domestic Mission

Our Charge: Established by Bishop Hollingsworth at the 2008 Diocesan Convention, the Commission on Global and Domestic Mission (CGDM) began its work by looking at the audit of Mission work being done through the parishes of this Diocese.

There was an exciting list of activity already in place but our charge was to determine how best to distribute the 0.7% of Diocesan budgeted funds specifically for projects and programs which targeted one or more of the MDGs established by the United Nations (see below). Each year we have sought to continue that practice and, in 2010 to add domestic projects and programs to the work of the Commission while also exploring the possibility of creating and perhaps eventually establishing a Mission/Partnership Relationship with a Diocese in Africa and/or South America. We have been able to do these things by gaining grant monies to distribute from the Bishop's Annual Fund as well as those from the budget.

 

Grants Awarded

The following grants have been awarded to parishes for their work in global and/or domestic initiatives outside the Diocese of Ohio. Reports of effectiveness are attached as they are received.

2012 and Earlier

  • Haitian student visitor program (Institution Univers)
  • Rupel E. Marshall Nursery & Primary School in Liberia
  • St. Francis Outreach Trust: Homes to Grow, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Tanga/Ohio Health Partnership, Tanzania
  • Holy Cross Anglican Primary School in San Pedro, Ambergris Cay Belize
  • St. James, Painesville, homeless & needy feeding program 

2013

St. James, Wooster: Obaatan Pa Women’s Hospital - Autoclave. Accra, Ghana in West Africa. Read Report

2014

  • St. James, Wooster: Obaatan Pa Women’s Hospital – Fetal Monitoring Supplies. Accra, Ghana in West Africa. Read Report
  • Multiple parishes: Los Amigos Episcopalis - Reopening of the San Andres Apostol School in Amatepec de Soyapango, El Salvador. Read Report
  • St. Paul’s, Cleveland Hts.: CAMO - Provide educationally appropriate Spanish books for rural schools in Honduras. Read Report
  • Christ Church, Warren: Marifiki Global Aids Mission in Kenya - Children’s Center for AIDS orphans. Read Report

2015

  • St. Timothy’s, Perrysburg: Outreach Center, Barnes Mt., Kentucky – Quilting, storytelling, relationship building between two dioceses. Report to come.
  • St. Paul’s, Cleveland Hts.: CAMO - Provide educationally appropriate Spanish books for rural schools in Honduras. Report to come.

2016

  • Christ Church, Kent: St. Hilaire Episcopal School, Petit Riviere, Sud, Haiti         
  • St. Thomas, Berea: Los Amigos Episcopales
  • St. Paul, Cleveland Heights: CAMO In Honduras
  • St. Paul, Akron: CGDM Grant - Africa Education Partnership

Learn more about ways you and your parish can support these goals:
www.er-d.org/get-involved
www.episcopalrelief.org
www.bread.org
www.heifer.org

 

Tanga Project Updates

View this update presentation to learn what's going on with the Tanga Health Project and the Commission on Global and Domestic Mission (no special software needed, simply click on the link to be taken to the Prezi site).

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In addition, the Tanga Project has a blog that will keep you posted on current developments.

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Diocesan Grant for Women's Hospital in Ghana - Update

In the summer of 2013, St. James, Wooster submitted a grant request on behalf of a Wayne County non-profit called “Serving Women in Ghana”. The organization, started by parishioners of St. James and now an outreach of the Parish as a whole, supports the Obaatan Pa Women’s Hospital, a non-profit hospital for women in Accra, Ghana in West Africa.

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