2018 Mission Grant awards total $116,900

The Diocesan Mission Grants Committee has awarded $116,900 in grants to mission congregations of our diocese, approving all eight grant requests it received for 2018.

The committee met May 31 to review the applications and hear in-person presentations. The Diocesan Trustees had initially approved $100,000 for the grant cycle, and since then have approved the additional amount to allow all the grant requests to be funded.

The money will support some of our diocese's smaller congregations in paying clergy salaries, starting and increasing community involvement initiatives, sending parishioners to conferences for professional development, and enhancing music ministries.

Seven grants were given directly to missions, while an eighth is for the Midlands-Pee Dee Ministry Partnership, which serves three mission churches in the Pee Dee as well as St. Augustine’s, Wedgefield; Good Shepherd, Sumter; and the Cheraw Episcopal worship group.

The Mission Grants Committee consists of Bishop Skip Adams, Bill Beak, Charles Carpenter, Pamela Guess, Bob King, Rebecca Lovelace, Andrea McKellar, Mark Szen, and the Rev. Dr. Jim Taylor.

The following grants were awarded:
The East Cooper Episcopal Church, $25,000
Good Shepherd, Summerville, $16,000
Midlands-Pee Dee Ministry Partnership, $15,000
St. Alban's, Kingstree, $19,000
St. Anne's, Conway, $7,000
St. Catherine's, Florence, $3,500
St. Francis, Charleston, $13,900
St. Stephen’s, St. Stephen, $17,500