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Good Friday Offering Poster

Diocesan Press Service. February 8, 1965 [XXIX-4]

Enclosed is a black and white glossy of this year's Good Friday poster - minus the lettering. If you want to use this with the lettering it should read:

Good Friday Offering

For Work in the Holy Land

The woodcut was by Walter Ferro, New York artist, whose work in black and white and color is now being used in American publishing and advertising.

The same woodcut will be on the offering folder and envelope.

GOOD FRIDAY OFFERING

Since 1889, Episcopalians have joined with their brothers in the Anglican Communion to make a Good Friday offering for the Church's ministry in the Holy Land. Ministry in such a troubled area is essentially one of reconciliation, whereby men of different creeds and factions are brought closer together to share the brotherhood which Christians believe they have in Christ.

This Offering benefits the Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Rev. Angus Campbell MacInnes, in three ways: it supports the Church of England's Jerusalem and the East Mission; it provides the Episcopal Church's share of the Inter-Anglican quota assigned for the Archbishop's work; and it meets the expenses of the Rev. Canon John D. Zimmerman, an American priest who serves on the Archbishop's staff.

The Offering also supports work in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Libya, the Sudan, and Iran. Anglicans in these nations are making great efforts to witness to the Gospel, in spite of their lack of numbers. The Offering supports much of their work to build schools, train nurses, and aid refugees. In addition, the Offering has made it possible for an Arab student to enroll at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. After his ordination, he will return to the Near East to minister to Arab refugees in Israel.

At the heart of the ministry of reconciliation supported by the Good Friday Offering are the ecumenical dialogues which play a growing role in the life of the Church today. The work of the Episcopal Church's Joint Commission on Ecumenical Relations continues to grow, particularly in activity with the Eastern Orthodox churches, because of the response Episcopalians give when this Offering is collected on Good Friday.