Foundation Makes Grants For Youth Work
Episcopal News Service. August 30, 1979 [79264]
New York -- Thirteen grants totalling $29,605 have been awarded by The Episcopal Church Foundation for proposals designed to develop young people's participation in the life of the Episcopal Church. The grants are part of a joint project of the Provincial Youth Ministry Coordinators, a national Episcopal leadership group, and the Foundation. Selections were made by the Coordinators at a meeting in July with Foundation representatives.
Grants will be distributed in 1979 to programs originating in six different provinces. The selections are:
- Province I -- $500 for a youth ministries network development conference scheduled in December, 1979. Teams from each diocese will organize youth advisor training programs and strengthen communications.
- Province I -- Church of the Good Shepherd, Nashua, New Hampshire $2,000 to the youth confirmation workshop for writing and printing a teacher's guide and student's booklet to document the parish's already successful confirmation program.
- Province II -- $500 for Diocese of Long Island youth leadership program. A conference will be funded as the first step to train and support diocesan youth work leaders.
- Province II -- $1,500 for Diocese of Western New York youth ministry program. A start-up training conference/workshop, including consultation from another diocese, will be funded early in 1980
- Province III -- $4,175 to Philadelphia School for Asian Children, St. Mary's Church, Hamilton Village, to stimulate acceptance and acculturation of Indochinese refugee children who have recently entered the community.
- Province III -- $1,000 to Diocese of West Virginia to support coordinator of activities of young people visiting area during summer, 1979, under the work-learn program of the Highland Education Project.
- Province III -- $4,000 to support Provincial Parent-Adolescent Communication and Family Worship Conference, providing a communication forum for parents and children within a Christian family experience.
- Province III -- $500 to support provincial participation in ecumenical Youth Advisor Training Event (Joint Educational Development) to be held in this area in May, 1980.
- Province III -- $1,000 to Diocese of Maryland Youth and Young Adult Committee, if equal sum is raised by December 31, 1979. Funds will support leadership training program and development of procedural materials.
- Province V -- $4,500 to Diocese of Chicago Bishop's Advisory Committee on Youth to install solar greenhouse at local church as part of community improvement program providing training and work opportunities for neighborhood youth.
- Province VI -- $5,000 to Naytahwaush Wilderness Youth Activities Center, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, for construction of wilderness cabin, part of Indian community youth service program.
- Province VIII -- $1,600 to Diocese of Arizona to establish diocesan youth commission, for assistance in development of local parish programs and providing diocesan leadership.
- APSO/Youth -- $3,250 for special workshop to train diocesan leadership within APSO/Youth disaster response network.
In announcing the awards, Frederick L. Redpath, Executive Vice President of the Foundation, said: "It is gratifying that several of these grants will make it possible for badly needed provincial and diocesan youth ministry programs to get started. There is also an exciting variety of other grants dealing with ministry among Episcopal young people.
"We are confident of good results. Each of the selected programs will be documented, and the results published by the Foundation at a later date."
Mr. Redpath added that further information on these programs is available through the appropriate Provincial Youth Ministry coordinator, or the Foundation office, 815 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017.