“Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.”                                                                               ...

In this blog Katie Mears, Director of our US Disaster Preparedness and Response Program, reiterates the importance of disaster preparedness and shares some tips on how to create your...

In my work as Communications Officer for Episcopal Relief & Development, I get to talk to a lot of wonderful people in congregations across the country about the ways they engage with our mission of...

Once in a while, I’ll get a phone call out of the blue that winds up being a great story.  I have the Rev. Dr. Erin Kirby to thank for this one. Reverend Erin, as she is known in her parish, was a...

In New Mexico, Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church in Los Alamos hosted their annual Children’s Christmas Bazaar on December 1.  For the past 10 years, the church’s thrift store has been setting...

In mid-October, I traveled with Katie Mears, our Program Manager for US Disaster Preparedness and Response, to the town of West Pittston, Pennsylvania.  West Pittston had suffered severe flooding...

It was “In-House" this week at Episcopal Relief & Development, which is when all of our staff, including from the Ghana regional office and satellite locations around the US, get together at...

High-school senior Emma Wright is a member of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Arlington, and a lay leader in the Diocese of Virginia. She is the lead youth representative for the Bishops’...

At the invitation of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis, we visited the area affected by the March 2, 2012 tornados, rated EF-4 (second most destructive). This storm left a swath of death...

I started writing this blog two weeks before Good Friday.  In all honesty, during this time I have not really been ready to contemplate Christ’s suffering on the cross and its meaning for my life and...

Lent started for me in the small town of Bolgatanga, northern Ghana. At the Parish Church of St. Cyprian, next door to the office of our partner, the Anglican Diocesan Development and...

This week, a group of Episcopal Church leaders and lay members are on an Episcopal Relief & Development study tour in Ghana, West Africa, to visit the agency’s field partners and programs. Some...

This guest post by Anne Ditzler, Senior Program Director at the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF), is reposted with permission from the ECF Vital Practices blog.Two nights ago I arrived home to...

I hope that folks are now used to hearing about disaster preparedness—the billboards, the ads on TV. “Make a kit, have a plan, be informed.” I worry sometimes, though, that we’re forgetting why we do...

The Chapel of the Cross held its Vacation Church School June 27-July 1. On each of the five days, we used a different Abundant Life Garden Project theme – water, seeds, soil, animals and harvest –...

At The Chapel of the Cross, our Children and Family Ministry Committee had already started planning a different Vacation Church School (VCS) when we heard about the soon-to-be-released Abundant Life...

As I stood in front of an energized crowd of nearly 1,200 youth, youth leaders and bishops, who had just spent twenty minutes jumping, clapping, singing, shouting and praising God at the...

This guest post by Miguel Angel Escobar, associate program director for leadership and training at the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF), is republished with permission from the ECF Vital...

The moment the blog post about the Episcopal Relief & Development Abundant Life Garden Project appeared my inbox, I knew it was the right formation piece for the St. Andrews children and youth during...

Lent is a time when we contemplate the death and resurrection of Christ. It is also springtime, when in the same way, we watch things come back to life. As a gardener, I see good analogies in the...