Hey everyone! My name is Faith, and I'm the Communications Officer here at Episcopal Relief & Development. I've been working in communications for the past few years, but I also have a master's degree...

  The highlight of my week last week – or, let’s face it, my life so far – was on Friday, March 8, when I got to cover the NYC launch of the “Ring the Bell” campaign for International Women’s Day. Our...

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...

  The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is always a blur.  Between food, friends, shopping, traveling and – oh right – work, I have to confess that the whole Advent thing about “waiting” and...

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...

There’s something I’ve been mulling over since the week that our partner from Zambia, Grace Mazala Phiri, visited our office during her trip to New York for the United Nations Commission on the Status...

As Communications Officer for Episcopal Relief & Development, I’m part of the Episcopal Communicators (EC) – an organization for those who work in communications in the Episcopal Church.  I got to...

I am an avid tea drinker. Seriously, I love tea. So recently when I came into the office and found that the hot water function on our water cooler was broken… I was forlorn. The hot water function was...

Last week, I had the rare treat of talking to an Episcopal Relief & Development program partner in person.  Although our program officers often meet face-to-face with our local church partners in the...

Here in the Episcopal Relief & Development Marketing and Communications Department, we try to work a season ahead. Over the summer, we were working on resources for churches to use in the fall when...

I’ve never actually been to a “U2charist” myself.  But after being at the band’s show last night and actually getting to participate at one point, I can definitely understand why people find them so...