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Episcopal Church awards 2025 Young Adult and Campus Ministry grants

March 31, 2025
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The Executive Council of The Episcopal Church has awarded 19 grants, totaling $135,000, to young adult and campus ministries from dioceses across the U.S., Europe, Caribbean, and South America. The projects include the development and expansion of young adult groups, a speaker series, teaching English as a second language, a community meal program, and more.

Young Adult and Campus Ministry grants provide funding for dioceses, congregations, community colleges, tribal colleges, and university campuses that engage or seek to engage with young adults on and off campus. Executive Council approved this year’s recommended grants—out of 33 applications—during its February meeting.

The grant review team included provincial coordinators for young adult and campus ministry, leaders in the area of young adult ministry, and denominational staff. The team scored and commented on the applications, with each application read by at least three people. Reviewers gathered to discern which grants should be recommended for funding.

Grant recipients, listed by category, are as follows:

Campus ministry grants, which provide seed money to help in the startup of new, innovative campus ministries or to enhance an existing ministry:

  • Canterbury Fellowship, Episcopal Church in Wyoming: $4,500
  • Community meals at the Pace Center, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia: $4,000
  • Episcopal Association for College Work—Canterbury House, Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan: $3,000
  • Programa de Universitarios, Episcopal Church in Ecuador: $8,000
  • St. George’s and Belong UCR (University of California at Riverside), Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles: $5,700
  • Supporting Faith-Sharing Community Meals at the Wilson Center, Episcopal Diocese of Maine: $5,500
  • Utah Episcopal Campus Ministry, Episcopal Diocese of Utah: $1,500

Development grants, which establish new, restore dormant, or reenergize existing campus ministries:

  • Campus Ministry at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Episcopal Diocese of Vermont: $25,000
  • Future Ensemble, Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe: $12,000
  • Light to the Nations, Episcopal Diocese of Missouri: $8,000

Young adult ministry grants, which provide seed money to help in the startup of new, innovative young adult ministries or enhance existing ministries:

  • Canterbury Club at Snead State Community College, campus chapel refurbish through Christ Episcopal Church, Albertville, Episcopal Diocese of Alabama: $4,000
  • Epiphany Opelousas Young Adults Group, Episcopal Church in Western Louisiana: $4,000
  • Face-to-Face Food Systems Project, Episcopal Diocese of the Great Lakes: $7,400
  • Oasis de Esperanzas, Episcopal Diocese of Cuba: $8,000
  • Our Own Deep Wells, Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia: $7,800
  • Reunite: the Young Adults of the Episcopal Church in Europe, Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe: $7,000
  • St. Jude the Apostle Episcopal Church, Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real: $6,400
  • The Village: A Community for Mothers, Episcopal Church in Arkansas: $6,700
  • Young Adult Network Advisory Council, Episcopal Diocese of New York: $6,500

For more information, contact the Rev. Twila Smith. 

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