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ERD makes Sunday bulletin available to raise funds in support of hurricane Sandy relief efforts
Episcopal Relief and Development has developed a bulletin insert for churches, to give an update on the current situation and what their partners are doing, and to help raise funds to support response efforts. Here is a link to ERD’s bulletins.
Episcopal Relief & Development supports Sandy relief efforts
[Episcopal Relief & Development] Thanks to the generosity of Episcopalians from around the country, Episcopal Relief & Development is in the process of making emergency grants to impacted dioceses in support of parish-based relief activities following superstorm Sandy. In the United States, these funds will help congregations expand feeding ministries and facilitate the provision of shelter and transportation assistance for those in need. In the Caribbean, … Continue reading about ERD’s hurricane Sandy relief efforts.
Churches respond in many ways to help storm-battered communities
[Episcopal News Service] “Ship ahoy!,” shouted a costumed boy racing up the stairs while trick-or-treating in the parish hall at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, New Jersey. Halloween arrived on All Souls Day, Nov. 2, this year for Morristown youngsters when the church hosted children for trick-or-treating on its campus after the holiday was postponed in New Jersey due to dangerous conditions caused by Hurricane Sandy, which roared through the region and caused widespread power outages with downed trees…
Presiding Bishop, President of the House of Deputies on Hurricane Sandy
[November 3, 2012] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and President of the House of Deputies the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings have offered a statement on Hurricane Sandy.
ERD seeking donations in wake of Hurricane Sandy
An email from Rob Radke, President of Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) As we awaken to darkened homes and severe damage, an unprecedented storm has pummeled the entire mid-Atlantic region. Hurricane Sandy swept through the Caribbean on October 25 before continuing up the East Coast and making landfall in central New Jersey on October 29. The storm has caused record flooding in some areas and left an estimated 6 million people on the Eastern Seaboard without power. Urgently – without…