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Executive Council awards 2022 Constable Fund, Roanridge Trust grants

June 10, 2022
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The Episcopal Church Executive Council approved the awarding of five Constable Fund grants and 11 Roanridge Trust grants—totaling over $460,000—at its April meeting. The Joint Standing Committee on Mission Within The Episcopal and two grant review committees—both chaired by George Wing, an Executive Council member from the Episcopal Church in Colorado—made the recommendations.

Constable Fund grants focus on mission initiatives that fall outside the church’s budget, with an emphasis on religious education. Roanridge Trust grants support leadership development in small towns and rural communities.

Recipients of the 2022 Constable Fund grants, totaling $228,500:

  • Building Diversity in Youth and Young Adults, $60,000: Support for a consultant to help intentionally shape diversity work and engagement with young people within The Episcopal Church’s Department of Faith Formation.
  • Formation, Christian Education and Discipleship, $36,500: Support for the Episcopal Church in Cuba, Province II, to strengthen Christian education for leaders and communities, including formation and discipleship.  
  • Office of the Presiding Bishop/Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe – Adult Education, $20,000: Support for a weeklong “Anglican Summer Session in Europe” to facilitate collaboration among the Anglican Communion provinces on the European continent.
  • Field Days: Creation-Care Formation Encounters from Good News Gardens, $62,000: Support for The Episcopal Church’s Office of Evangelism “Field Days” pilgrimages, retreats, one-day encounters, and online community designed to deepen relationships with God and kinship with creation.
  • Province I: Trinity Episcopal Church, Southport, Connecticut, Trinity Spiritual Center, $50,000: Support for an intentional community that offers a new education model geared toward “nones,” the fast-growing segment of U.S. residents who don’t affiliate with a religion.

Recipients of the 2022 Roanridge Trust grants, totaling $232,645:

  • Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta (Appleton Episcopal Ministries, Macon): Serving All God’s People: Revitalization of Ministry through Reconciliation in Middle Georgia, $20,000
  • Episcopal Church in Colorado (St. Patrick’s, Pagosa Springs): “Being With” Facilitators Training, $7,300
  • Episcopal Diocese of Maine (St. Saviour’s, Bar Harbor):Solid Rock: Equipping Maine with Great Preachers, $19,655
  • Episcopal Church in Minnesota: Connecting Rural Young Adults With Ministry Internships, $15,000
  • Episcopal Diocese of Missouri: Requiem or Renaissance for Rural Congregations, $26,700
  • Episcopal Diocese of Montana: Advocacy Training and Reduction of Carbon Footprint for Rural Montana Episcopal Parishes, $15,600
  • Episcopal Diocese of New York: Episcopal Futures: Rural Faith Project, $45,725
  • Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota: Northwest Regional Ministry in North Dakota, $20,000
  • Episcopal Diocese of Western Missouri: Partners in Presence, $20,265
  • Province V (Church of the Redeemer, Lorain, Ohio): Community Formation coordinator, $35,000
  • Province VIII (St. John’s, Bisbee, Arizona, and St. Stephen’s, Douglas, Arizona): Bilingual Catechism, $7,400

The Roanridge Trust was established by the Cochel family, who gave a working farm in Missouri called Roanridge to The Episcopal Church. Income from the trust generates the grant funds. The Constable Fund was established by philanthropist Marie Louise Constable in 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression. She continued to add to the fund until her death in 1951.