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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 33, folder \"Contributions-United Thank\nOffering St. John's\" of the Betty Ford White House Papers, 1973-1977 at the Gerald R.\nFord Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Betty Ford donated to the United States\nof America her copyrights in all of her unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nTHE PRESIDENT\nThe White House\n1375\nWashington; D.C. 20500\nmay 31 1916\n74-16\nto the order of United Thank Offering $ 25/100 ,00 724\nTwinty five dollars Too not\nDollars\nCENTRAL BANK, N.A.\nCENTRAL\nBANK\nGRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 49502\nMemo St Johns Church\nBetty B. Ford\n⑆0724⑉0016⑆ 05504⑉146⑉7⑈\nFORD H 070330\nSusan P.\n5/16\nMay 6, 1976\nDear Mrs. yates,\nWould you sindly letter\ngive and the enclosures enclosed to mrs.\nFord? as a member of the\nEpiscopal Church shel in may\nwant to participate at other\nUnited Thank Offering\nSt. John's Last time I we\nhad an ingathering sent was\nhert sorry an not envelope, to have as she\nwas present in in church\nthat day. quite with sure the\nshe is familiar\nUnited Offering, as\nEpiscopal women in for\nit has been given by\n100 years thank every phrish\nFORD Lidhery 's 019830\nmany Sincerely\nDorothy Rainey\nST. JOHN'S CHURCH\nLAFAYETTE SQUARE\nWASHINGTON, D. C. 20005\nTHE REVEREND JOHN C. HARPER, D.D., RECTOR\nMay, 1976\nDear Friends:\nSunday, May 16th is the date of the spring ingathering of the\nUnited Thank Offering. It will be received by Bishop Walker who\nwill be in our parish that day for the service of Confirmation.\nPlease use the enclosed offering envelope for the contents of your\nUTO box, or cash or your check, and bring it to church with you.\nThere will be women with offering plates at the front doors of the\nchurch at both the nine and eleven o'clock services to collect the\nenvelopes. You may leave your offering in the Parish Office any\ntime or mail it as shown below.\nAlso enclosed is a pamphlet that tells the story of the United\nThank Offering, including a list of the grants being made during the\nyear 1976. Each year five times as many requests are received as\ncan be met. Church people participate in the offering not only in\nevery American diocese but in many dioceses in other countries.\nThe purpose of the United Thank Offering has remained constant\nsince its beginning in 1874: \"Given in thankfulness for the every-\nday blessings of life\nused to provide blessings for others.\"\nRejoice! Give thanks!\nSincerely,\nDonathy G. Rainey\nDorothy G. Rainey\nCustodian\nUnited Thank Offering\nc/o Mrs. B. L. Rainey\nSt. John's Church\n1525 H st., N.W.\nWashington, D.C. 20005\nFORD\n&\nHENALD\nLIBRARY\nRejoice! Givethanks!\nUnited Thank\nOffering\n1975 Grants\nfor Use in 1976\nRejoice! Givethanks!\nThe Story of the United Thank Offering\nOver one hundred years ago, in 1874, the\nFor many years the greatest portion of the\nWoman's Auxiliary held its first Triennial Meeting in\noffering was used for the training, salaries, equip-\nNew York City. Sixty-five women from five dioceses\nment and health care of women missionaries. \"After\ngathered, as the General Convention was meeting.\nsetting aside varying amounts at each Triennial\nTheir purpose was simple. They wanted to assist\nMeeting in a trust fund for retiring allowances for\nthe church in spreading the gospel. They needed to\nwomen missionaries, in 1952 the Woman's Auxiliary\nshare ideas on ways to educate people about mis-\ncontributed from the Ida W. Soule Pension Fund\nsion and ways to fund it.\nmore than one million dollars toward the pension plan\nfor lay workers.\"2\nThe meeting was so successful that they\ndecided to meet again, in conjunction with\nThe offering has built churches, rectories,\nsucceeding General Conventions. At the fifth\nhospitals, schools, community halls - almost any\nTriennial Meeting, several ideas focused; the United\ntype of building needed for the program of the church\nOffering became a reality. And for eighty-five years,\naround the world. Program money has gone for\nthe offering has been a source of inspiration and a\npeople of all ages - infants to the aged - for lay\npowerful resource for world-wide mission. Today\ntraining, training of evangelists, community services,\neveryone in the church is encouraged to participate.\nhealth care, etc. Pension endowment and develop-\nment funds have been provided. Through three\nThe United Offering began as a dream shared by\nseparate grants a Revolving Loan Fund was estab-\ntwo women, Mrs. Richard Soule of Massachusetts\nlished. Grants go to programs that are extra-\nand Miss Julia Emery, National Secretary of the\nbudgetary and experimental.\nWoman's Auxiliary. Individual women in the parishes\ntook part by offering prayers of thanksgiving for daily\nThe United Thank Offering quickly became a\nblessings and giving coins for mission. These coins\npart of the program of the Episcopal Church\nwere united with those of all participants and\nwherever the church serves. The autonomous\npresented for the first time at the 1889 Triennial\nAnglican churches of Japan and Brazil have the\nMeeting. The initial United Offering was small. But it\nUnited Thank Offering which was started by\nhelped build the first Episcopal Church building in\nAmerican missionaries. Church people participate\nAlaska. It sent Lisa Lovell to Japan as the first woman\nin the offering not only in every American diocese\nmissionary from the Episcopal Church. It meant five\nbut in many dioceses in other countries.\ndollars for Montana, and twenty-five cents for the\norgan fund in Cape Mount, Liberia.\nIn the years 1970 through 1975, 478 grants were\nmade to 136 dioceses in 50 countries. The simple\nIn 1919 the United Offering was renamed the\npurpose of the United Thank Offering has \"remained\nUnited Thank Offering. \"Through giving to the United\nconstant\": \"Given in thankfulness for the everyday\nOffering, women had come to know the joy of\nblessings of life\nused to provide blessings for\nexpressing thankfulness for everyday blessings.\"1\nothers.\"2\n'Every Three Years-Avis Harvey\n\"True to their Heritage-Margaret M. Sherman\nThe UnitedThankOffering\nRejoice! Givethanks!\nWhat is the United Thank Offering?\nBetween 1919 and 1967 Episcopal Church-\nLord of the Church, who hast given to thy\nThe United Thank Offering is a way of giving\nwomen used the following prayer both at home and\nservants a diversity of gifts, that they may share\nthanks to God - through daily giving. The philosophy\nwhen they gathered for women's meetings:\nthem with their brethren: Grant us the generous\nbehind the United Thank Offering is to combine\nheart to give, the humble heart to receive; that\nthanksgiving with mission, to deepen the faith of the\nOh Lord, our heavenly Father, we pray thee\nwe, with all who love thee, may know the fullness\nindividual and the family by encouraging daily\nto send forth more labourers into thy harvest,\nof thy grace; that thy love may be perfected in us;\nprayers of thanksgiving and gifts of small coins as\nand to grant them thy special grace for every\nto the glory of thy Name. Amen.\nexpressions of gratitude. These coins are united with\nneed. Guard and guide the workers in the field,\nthe prayers and gifts of others, and used for mission\nand draw us into closer fellowship with them.\nThe prayer you see on today's Blue Box is one\nprojects around the world. The outreach and power of\nDispose the hearts of all women everywhere to\nof many possible prayers. Many people, too, find that\nthe United Thank Offering becomes a reality when\ngive gladly as thou hast given to them. Accept\nprayer is often more a mood of thanksgiving than a\nthe prayers and gifts are united and there are\nfrom grateful hearts our United Thank Offering of\nverbal expression.\nsufficient resources to develop new areas of mission.\nprayer and gifts and joyful service; and bless it to\nthe coming of thy Kingdom through Jesus Christ\nWho participates?\nour Lord. Amen.\nA grateful heart is the surest sign\nAnyone who wants to may participate. If you do\nnot have a United Thank Offering Blue Box, ask your\nIn 1967 the Triennial Meeting voted to change\nthat the soul is awake and alive\nrector for the name of the U.T.O. Chairman in your\nthe box design because many people were asking if\nto the glory of life.\nparish. She will give you a box.\nonly women could take part in the offering. Who could\nWho receives a grant?\ndeny another the privilege of participation? New\nIt is the line of separation\nWho allocates the money and when?\nGrants go only to those who have filed a request.\nprayers were written.\nbetween the instincts of the animal\nThe offering is allocated every fall for the\nThe request forms and the policies and procedures\nand the urge of the spirit.\nfollowing year. The United Thank Offering Commit-\nfor filing are available through the diocesan offices.\nO God, who art the hope of all peoples\ntee makes the grants in the years between General\nAll requests must have the signature and approval of\neverywhere, we thank thee for the outpourings\nIt is the first step toward loving God.\nConvention. The Triennial Meeting of the women of\nthe bishop of the diocese. Grant requests are re-\nof love and generosity which have enabled us to\nBertha Condé, in The Spirit of Thankfulness\nthe Episcopal Church makes the grants at the time of\nceived between January 1st and April 30th.\nrespond to some of the world's needs in places\nGeneral Convention.\nfar and near; guide us as we face changing\ntimes and new frontiers; keep our hearts thankful\nWho may submit a request?\nand our vision clear as we seek to fulfill our\nUnited Thank Offering\nWho is the United Thank Offering\n1. Any bishop of the Episcopal Church or the\nvocation and ministry as members of the body\n815 Second Avenue\nCommittee?\nAnglican Communion.\nThe committee is made up of one elected\n2. Groups within a diocese (approved by the\nof thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\nNew York, N.Y. 10017\nrepresentative from each of nine provinces of the\nbishop).\nEpiscopal Church, plus two members from the former\n3. International Christian institutions and\ncommittee and one from the Executive Council.\norganizations (i.e., hospitals, schools, etc.).\nProduced by Seabury Professional Services 1P/1175/200M\nLIFT for list of grants\nUnited Thank Offering 1975 Grants-for Use in 1976\nAlabama (Alabama)\nIreland (Down & Dromore)\nNorth Carolina (North Carolina)\nTexas (West Texas)\nBAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER, BIRMINGHAM\n$12,000\nCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY HOLIDAYS, BELFAST\n$6,000\nTREE HOUSE, CHAPEL HILL\n$25,000\nINTERNATIONAL SEAMEN'S CENTER, BROWNSVILLE\n$15,000\nAn ecumenically-supported project for area ministers: to provide counsel-\nTo provide twelve-day holidays in a happy educational environment for\nThe former house burned down. This grant will secure another house and\nTo provide desperately needed services, recreation, sports and counsel-\ning for them and their families, and to increase their effectiveness in the\n120 deprived children, mixing Protestants and Catholics.\ncontinue this worthwhile live-in treatment program for adolescents recov-\ning for seamen of all nations in this isolated port.\npastoral care and counseling of their parishioners.\nering from drug and other problems.\nJerusalem (Jerusalem)\nUtah (Utah)\nArgentina (Northern Argentina)\nST. GEORGE'S COLLEGE, JERUSALEM\n$15,500\nNorth Carolina (Western North Carolina)\nCHURCH CENTER, UINTAH-OURAY RESERVATION\n$14,500\nLAND PURCHASING FUND, SALTA, TUCUMAN, OTHERS $3,500\nTo provide scholarships for lay-workers and seminarians at a school\nCAMP MOUNTAIN RANGER\n$10,000\nDown-payment on a building to provide both office and program space for\nNewly-formed churches in poverty areas need land on which to build\nwhose Holy Land background has proved a valuable aid to formative\nA therapeutic summer camp program, in a restful setting, for emotionally\nfive Indian communities, with emphasis on Christian education and de-\nmulti-purpose halls. Each church will undertake its own building program\nministries.\ndisturbed children, aged 11-15.\nveloping a self-sustaining church.\nand plan to repay the original land-purchase loan.\nKentucky (Kentucky)\nNorth Dakota (North Dakota)\nVirginia (Southern Virginia)\nArizona (Arizona)\nCOOPERATIVE MINISTRY, PADUCAH\n$3,000\nST. THOMAS RECTORY, FORT TOTTEN\n$25,000\nST. PAUL'S COLLEGE, LAWRENCEVILLE\n$25,000\nST. PAUL'S INFANT CARE\nTo aid a promising ecumenical effort in diversified community ministry,\nTo build a permanent vicarage on this Indian reservation.\nA matching grant. Repair of a decaying historic chapel which not only pro-\nRESOURCE CENTER, PHOENIX\n$24,000\ncarried out primarily by lay volunteers.\nvides essential ministry to college students but is the only church avail-\nTo implement a program for pregnant teen-agers, by providing on-site\nable for more than 125 communicants.\ncare for new-born infants, plus some training for the new mothers.\nLiberia (Liberia)\nOhio (Southern Ohio)\nURBAN OUTREACH MINISTRY, NORFOLK\n$10,000\nCHRISTIAN EDUCATION PROJECT\nAPPALACHIAN PEOPLE'S SERVICE ORGANIZATION,\n$10,000\nA creative community ministry to meet pastoral needs of groups not often\nBangladesh (Bangladesh)\nHAMILTON\n$18,000\nTo train a youth-work director to assist sole staff member of an active\nreached by local churches-office workers, homosexuals, transients,\nChristian Education program and to make possible Episcopal participa-\nTo develop an organization of Appalachian people to act as advocate for\nand drug addicts.\nST. THOMAS' NEW CENTER, DACCA\n$20,000\ntion in an interdenominational audio-visual ministry.\nthe poor in the industrial city of Hamilton.\nToward the purchase of land and the erection of a multi-purpose center for\nall the Episcopal Church programs in this city.\nVirginia (Virginia)\nMalawi (Lake Malawi)\nOregon (Oregon)\nLEWIS PULLER VOCATIONAL CENTER, SALUDA\n$10,000\nBrazil (South-Central Brazil)\nFOUR MOTOR BIKES\nYOUNG ADULT MINISTRY, PORTLAND\n$10,000\n$3,840\nFor a multi-racial vocational center that trains handicapped persons in\nTo provide fast transportation for the archdeacons of Likoma, Mzuzu,\nAn effort to integrate post-high school and college youths into today's\nMATO GROSSO MISSION, DOURADES\n$22,000\nbasic skills and prepares them for living with others.\nFor a multi-purpose building, a center of worship and social service\nNtchisi and Nkhotakota, increasing their contact with the people.\nchallenging society. This matching grant goes toward the salary of an\nexecutive director.\nprograms, and especially to train lay leadership.\nWashington (Olympia)\nMalaysia (West Malaysia)\nST. BEDE'S MISSION, PORT ORCHARD\n$5,000\nBurma (Burma)\nST. BARNABAS COMMUNITY PROGRAM, KELANG\n$50,000\nPanama (Panama and the Canal Zone)\nNew Trident Submarine Base is expected to bring some 18,000 more\nTo help launch a five-year program in a low wage, heavy school dropout\nSAN JUAN CHURCH, VILLA CACERES\n$15,000\nRETIREMENT HOMES FOR CLERGY\npeople here in the next five years. This grant will enable an additional\nAND LAY WORKERS, RANGOON\n$12,000\narea. Women's vocational training, school-child study facilities, and a kin-\nFinal funds needed to complete a church building that will serve this grow-\npriest to be assigned.\nWithout pension plan, what will happen to elderly people who have served\ndergarten will be offered, irrespective of race or creed.\ning community.\nST. PETER'S CHURCH, SEATTLE\n$10,000\nthe diocese faithfully? This grant makes possible three cottages for re-\nTo renovate the crumbling 1932-built parish hall, widely used for Asian\ntirees on land already owned.\nMaryland (Maryland)\nPennsylvania (Bethlehem)\ncommunity programs.\nABSALOM JONES CENTER, BALTIMORE\n$10,000\nTALBOT GROUP HOME, LEBANON COUNTY\n$25,000\nCalifornia (California)\nAn Episcopal-backed summer program (1976 and 1977) that gives loving\nA matching grant. To purchase a house for 8 to 10 adolescent girls who\nWest Virginia (West Virginia)\nFRIENDS OUTSIDE, SALINAS\n$3,620\nconcern and learning opportunities to inner-city children.\nare ready for and need the experience of family living.\nHIGHLAND EDUCATIONAL PROJECT, NORTHFORK\n$6,000\nFriends Outside has consolidated its services into one central location.\nThis many-faceted ministry in Appalachia needs a van to carry out proj-\nThis grant covers additional administrative expenses caused by the\nMassachusetts (Massachusetts)\nPennsylvania (Pennsylvania)\nects, and funds to purchase prescribed medicines for the poor who cannot\nmove.\nALLIANCE FOR COORDINATED SERVICES, BOSTON\n$20,000\nFRANKLINVILLE COMMUNITY PROJECT, PHILADELPHIA $15,000\npay.\nURBAN INDIAN MINISTRY, SAN FRANCISCO\nSupport for a program to organize and train parents, students and teach-\nTo help launch a pioneering program of numerous community services to\n$3,300\ners in twelve schools in tense Boston areas.\na multi-racial neighborhood, including a bilingual Spanish-speaking staff.\nZaire (Boga-Zaire)\nThis grant provides a needed staff member and materials for a senior\ncitizens' group ministering to the spiritual, pastoral and social needs of\nCOMMUNITY PLAYSCHOOL, BEVERLY\n$5,030\nDIOCESAN CENTER, BUKAVA\n$25,000\n40,000 Indians in the Bay area.\nThis grant will pay for a new bus and a sprinkler system, permitting an\nPennsylvania (Pittsburgh)\nFor a suitable building to bring together many cultures, parishes and\nadditional fifteen welfare children to attend this pre-school.\nactivities in the new Diocese of Boga-Zaire.\nLAMBETH COMMUNITY CENTER, PITTSBURGH\n$20,000\nCalifornia (San Diego)\n\"Start-up\" funds for a community center program among the elderly who\nEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES, SAN DIEGO\n$14,000\nMexico (Western Mexico)\nlive in this large housing facility.\nZambia (Lusaka)\nFor the purchase of three trucks, to facilitate work with delinquent youth\nMISSION DEVELOPMENT\n$39,850\nDORMITORIES, MAPANZA AND CHIPILI\n$12,000\nand ex-offenders.\nA development grant for church building in Los Mochis and Costa Rica,\nPhilippines\nTo expand a homecraft center where women learn useful skills in home-\nSinaloa, and in Mexicali, Baja California Nte.\nmaking, and to build a new wing at an educational school for blind\nST. ANDREW'S SEMINARY, QUEZON CITY\n$50,000\nchildren.\nCalifornia (San Joaquin)\nDAY CARE CENTER, SONORA\n$10,000\nMichigan (Michigan)\nToward a goal of $150,000 to endow the base budget and make this in-\nfluential seminary less dependent on overseas financing.\nSeed money to start a day care center in this high-unemployment area.\nCROSSROADS, ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, DETROIT\n$10,000\nGRANTS WITH\nTo hire one staff person who will coordinate this volunteer service agency\nPhilippines (Northern Philippines)\nChile (Chile, Bolivia & Peru)\nproviding a ministry to the distressed poor of Detroit.\nMULTI-DIOCESAN SCOPE\nDIOCESAN BUILDING, BONTOC\n$25,000\nST. CHRISTOPHER'S HOUSE, DETROIT\n$15,000\nAPPALACHIAN PEOPLE'S SERVICE\nCHURCH DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, CAUTIN PROVINCE $16,000\nThis much-needed new diocesan center will provide offices, lodging\nSupport for this active social service mission in a disadvantaged area on\nORGANIZATION (APSO)\n$50,000\nThe Anglican Church-growing rapidly, especially among Mapuche\nspace and a conference hall.\nthe lower east side of the city.\nThe joint effort of 12 dioceses and Executive Council, in cooperation with\nIndians-is now banned from meeting in private houses. This grant will\n17 other denominations, that responds to needs and opportunities in this\naid a building program.\nMinnesota (Minnesota)\nPuerto Rico (Puerto Rico)\npoverty area. A grant for community development projects.\nthe diocese faithfully? This grant makes possible three cottages for re-\nTo renovate the crumbling 1932-built parish hall, widely used for Asian\ntirees on land already owned.\nMaryland (Maryland)\nPennsylvania (Bethlehem)\ncommunity programs.\nABSALOM JONES CENTER, BALTIMORE\n$10,000\nTALBOT GROUP HOME, LEBANON COUNTY\n$25,000\nCalifornia (California)\nAn Episcopal-backed summer program (1976 and 1977) that gives loving\nA matching grant. To purchase a house for 8 to 10 adolescent girls who\nWest Virginia (West Virginia)\nFRIENDS OUTSIDE, SALINAS\n$3,620\nconcern and learning opportunities to inner-city children.\nare ready for and need the experience of family living.\nHIGHLAND EDUCATIONAL PROJECT, NORTHFORK\n$6,000\nFriends Outside has consolidated its services into one central location.\nThis many-faceted ministry in Appalachia needs a van to carry out proj-\nThis grant covers additional administrative expenses caused by the\nMassachusetts (Massachusetts)\nPennsylvania (Pennsylvania)\nects, and funds to purchase prescribed medicines for the poor who cannot\nmove.\nALLIANCE FOR COORDINATED SERVICES, BOSTON\n$20,000\nFRANKLINVILLE COMMUNITY PROJECT, PHILADELPHIA $15,000\npay.\nURBAN INDIAN MINISTRY, SAN FRANCISCO\n$3,300\nSupport for a program to organize and train parents, students and teach-\nTo help launch a pioneering program of numerous community services to\ners in twelve schools in tense Boston areas.\nThis grant provides a needed staff member and materials for a senior\na multi-racial neighborhood, including a bilingual Spanish-speaking staff.\nZaire (Boga-Zaire)\ncitizens' group ministering to the spiritual, pastoral and social needs of\nCOMMUNITY PLAYSCHOOL, BEVERLY\n$5,030\nDIOCESAN CENTER, BUKAVA\n$25,000\n40,000 Indians in the Bay area.\nThis grant will pay for a new bus and a sprinkler system, permitting an\nPennsylvania (Pittsburgh)\nFor a suitable building to bring together many cultures, parishes and\nadditional fifteen welfare children to attend this pre-school.\nactivities in the new Diocese of Boga-Zaire.\nLAMBETH COMMUNITY CENTER, PITTSBURGH\n$20,000\nCalifornia (San Diego)\nEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES, SAN DIEGO\n$14,000\nMexico (Western Mexico)\n\"Start-up\" funds for a community center program among the elderly who\nlive in this large housing facility.\nZambia (Lusaka)\nFor the purchase of three trucks, to facilitate work with delinquent youth\nMISSION DEVELOPMENT\n$39,850\nDORMITORIES, MAPANZA AND CHIPILI\n$12,000\nand ex-offenders.\nA development grant for church building in Los Mochis and Costa Rica,\nSinaloa, and in Mexicali, Baja California Nte.\nPhilippines\nTo expand a homecraft center where women learn useful skills in home-\nmaking, and to build a new wing at an educational school for blind\nST. ANDREW'S SEMINARY, QUEZON CITY\n$50,000\nchildren.\nCalifornia (San Joaquin)\nDAY CARE CENTER, SONORA\n$10,000\nMichigan (Michigan)\nToward a goal of $150,000 to endow the base budget and make this in-\nfluential seminary less dependent on overseas financing.\nSeed money to start a day care center in this high-unemployment area.\nCROSSROADS, ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, DETROIT\n$10,000\nGRANTS WITH\nTo hire one staff person who will coordinate this volunteer service agency\nPhilippines (Northern Philippines)\nChile (Chile, Bolivia & Peru)\nproviding a ministry to the distressed poor of Detroit.\nMULTI-DIOCESAN SCOPE\nDIOCESAN BUILDING, BONTOC\n$25,000\nST. CHRISTOPHER'S HOUSE, DETROIT\nCHURCH DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, CAUTIN PROVINCE $16,000\n$15,000\nAPPALACHIAN PEOPLE'S SERVICE\nThis much-needed new diocesan center will provide offices, lodging\nSupport for this active social service mission in a disadvantaged area on\nORGANIZATION (APSO)\n$50,000\nThe Anglican Church-growing rapidly, especially among Mapuche\nspace and a conference hall.\nIndians-is now banned from meeting in private houses. This grant will\nthe lower east side of the city.\nThe joint effort of 12 dioceses and Executive Council, in cooperation with\n17 other denominations, that responds to needs and opportunities in this\naid a building program.\nMinnesota (Minnesota)\nPuerto Rico (Puerto Rico)\npoverty area. A grant for community development projects.\nPREPARATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT CHURCH\n$25,000\nCHURCH PERIODICAL CLUB\nDistrict of Columbia (Washington)\nMAZAKUTE PARISH BUILDING, ST. PAUL\n$15,000\n$45,000\nThe church in Puerto Rico hopes to become independent by 1982. This\nPLACEMENT OF WOMEN IN CHURCH LEADERSHIP\nThe only urban Indian congregation in the Midwest needs a building to\n$10,000 for immediate use and a $5,000 matching grant for interpretive\n$10,000\ngrant will underwrite studies leading to an indigenous liturgy, canon law\nmaterials to tell the story of CPC and encourage people to give funds for\nA pilot project, based in Washington, to develop and implement policy on\nserve as a church and central gathering place. This grant will provide it.\nand prayer book.\nbooks that go to churches around the world.\nthe placement of women in positions of pastoral leadership throughout\nWOMEN'S INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, MINNEAPOLIS $5,000\nCOAL IMPACT TASK FORCE\nthe church.\nTo expand a going program to train and motivate women for leadership\nSolomon Islands (Melanesia)\n(MONTANA/WYOMING/NORTH DAKOTA)\n$5,000\nroles in fields of social action and change.\nPRINTING PRESS\n$30,000\nThis tri-state ecumenical task force will coordinate a ministry to people\nDominican Republic (Dominican\nMissouri (Missouri)\nTo replace a 40-year old machine with a new printing press, vital in provid-\nadversely affected by the vast and rapid expanse of the coal fields.\nRepublic)\ning church materials in the Melanesian tongues.\nEPISCOPAL SOCIETY FOR MINISTRY TO THE AGING\n$10,000\nDISCOVERY UNLIMITED, CARUTHERSVILLE\n$3,000\nLAY PERSONS' RETIREMENT FUND\n$45,000\nRegional conferences will train diocesan delegates in the practical work of\nThis grant will help secure matching funds for a day care program stress-\nFinancial assistance for long-time lay workers in a land of meager old age\nSouth Dakota (South Dakota)\nministering to the more than 345,000 Episcopal senior citizens whose\ning parent involvement, in the impoverished Missouri \"bootheel\" area.\nbenefits.\nGOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH, LITTLE OAK CREEK\n$8,000\nspecial needs range from nutrition to education.\nThe present wooden structure has rotted out. With this grant for materials,\nJOURNAL OF ECUMENICAL STUDIES\n$5,000\nMULTI-PURPOSE BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO\n$35,000\nMozambique (Lebombo)\nthe Indian parishioners will build a new church.\nGift subscriptions for 500 key Episcopalians in anticipation of their future\nTo provide a church/parish hall/day school, replacing a rented and over-\nCHURCH CENTER, CHOUPAL\n$9,800\nsupport of what has been hailed as \"the most important ecumenical\ncrowded store front.\nChristians are moving from the bush to the city. This grant makes possible\nST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, BATESLAND\n$13,000\npublication in the world.\"\na multi-purpose center for them on recently purchased land.\nA new congregation, formed by people who moved into government hous-\nNATIONAL HOUSING TRAINING AND\nFlorida (Florida)\ning, has outgrown its storefront property. This grant will enable them to\nINFORMATION CENTER\n$10,000\nRE-ENTRY OF GAINESVILLE, GAINESVILLE\n$5,000\nNew Jersey (Newark)\nbuild a church.\nTo expand local chapters and plan the national investment policy. of a\nA grant to aid Holy Trinity's readjustment center for troubled young men,\nPUERTO RICAN ECUMENICAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM $10,000\nprogram whose overall goal is informing the public and helping develop\naged 18 to 25.\nA cooperative effort to develop leadership and resources among New-\nSurinam (Guyana)\ncommunity organizations to attack root causes of neighborhood deterio-\nark's large Puerto Rican community.\nST. BRIDGET'S CHURCH, PARAMARIBO\n$10,000\nration.\nFlorida (Southeast Florida)\nTo replace the country's only Anglican church, now in disrepair, with a\nNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LAY TRAINING\n$10,000\nHOLY CROSS DAY CARE CENTER, MIAMI\n$40,000\nNew Hampshire (New Hampshire)\npractical structure which will permit more flexible ministry to both West\nScholarships to prepare laity for special ministries through a nine-month\nGIRLS GROUP HOME, MANCHESTER\nIndian and Dutch members.\nTo remodel church facilities as a day care center for the Spanish-speaking\n$5,444\ntraining program at General Theological Seminary and a subsequent\ncommunity.\nToward renovating an old fire house as a rehabilitation home for ten\n12-18 month work experience.\ngirls-a pioneering effort in this area.\nTaiwan (Taiwan)\nOVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT FUND\n$50,000\nGuatemala (Guatemala)\nST. JAMES KINDERGARTEN, TAICHUNG\n$20,000\nTo be allocated by the overseas bishops for projects and feasibility\nLAY MINISTRY PLAN, MARISCOS\n$17,440\nNew Mexico (Rio Grande)\nA new two-story four-classroom building to educate 450 pupils and foster\nstudies aimed at developing autonomous dioceses.\nFor training an effective cadre of lay leaders in the north of Guatemala.\nEL CONCILIO CAMPESINO DE SUDOESTE, SAN MIGUEL $20,000\nevangelism in the area.\nRETIREMENT FUND FOR WOMEN IN THE DIACONATE\n$3,500\nWith this grant, the rural farm workers will install a waste water system and\nSupplemental pension assistance for deaconesses ordained before\nREVOLVING HOUSING LOAN FUND\n$35,000\npurchase equipment for their new community center and cooperative\nTanzania (Tanzania)\n1970.\nUnless given assistance, the clergy here cannot afford to buy homes. This\nstore.\nEVANGELISM\n$25,000\ngrant provides down-payments, repayable on an interest-free long-term\nSeed money to establish new churches and missions in rapidly expanding\nbasis.\nNew York (New York)\nvillages.\nUnited Thank Offering\nHaiti (Haiti)\nCLUSTER, INC., YONKERS\n$30,000\nDISCRETIONARY FUND\n$59.24\nTo cover operating costs for the first year of a program coordinating all\nTennessee (Tennessee)\nMoney to be added to a modest fund for unanticipated items and details.\nST. THOMAS CHURCH, ARCAHAIE\n$24,200\nEpiscopal inner-city ministry and community outreach in New York's\nGROUP THERAPY HOME FOR GIRLS, BLOUNT COUNTY $20,000\nINCIDENTAL EXPENSES FOR WOMEN MISSIONARIES\n$3,600\nTo build a rectory for the priest of this large parish, which includes seven\nfourth largest city.\nTo provide a therapeutic living environment for troubled adolescents who\nA January check for $200 goes to each Executive Council-appointed\nmissions.\ncannot be helped through standard foster or institutional care.\nwoman missionary. For her discretionary use.\nNew York (Western New York)\nINTERPRETIVE MATERIALS\nHonduras (Honduras)\n$15,000\nCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER, ALBION\n$8,000\nTexas (Northwest Texas)\nGrant lists, posters, cards, grant stories, bulletins, etc.\nHOLY TRINITY SCHOOL, LA CEIBA\n$55,000\nA para-professional counseling center to relieve staff of local mental\nCASA DE AMIGOS, MIDLAND\n$10,000\nSCHOLARSHIPS\n$65,000\nImproved and enlarged facilities are needed for this 15-year-old school\nhealth clinic where caseloads have risen dramatically due to year-round\nTowards an assistant director's salary and purchase of a minibus for an\nFinancial assistance for women training for some form of professional\nwhich provides a glowing opportunity for the church in Honduras.\ninflux of migrant workers.\necumenical self-help education program for Hispanic people.\nChristian service.\nHong Kong (Hong Kong)\nNorth Carolina (East Carolina)\nTexas (Texas)\nTotal Offering, 1975\n$1,501,527.11\nLEAD KINDLY LIGHT CHURCH FLATS, KOWLOON\n$15,000\nFAMILY LIFE CENTER, FAYETTEVILLE\n$5,000\nST. PETER'S AFTERNOON PROGRAM, PASADENA\n$3,000\nToward purchase of two flats in a high-rise building, a central point for an\nThis program, offering counseling in a Christian context for ministers and\nReallocated Monies\n26,656.13\nTo provide a wholesome after-school environment and additional educa-\nextensive ministry to 170,000 neighboring tenants.\nothers, needs an additional counselor to meet overwhelming demand.\ntion for neighborhood children, predominantly Mexican-American.\nTOTAL\n$1,528,183.24\nGTOND 7, PM MAV. OO 2001 3\n5\nST. JOHN'S CHURCH\nTO\nLAFAYETTE SQUARE\nMARCH OF DIVIES\n\"WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005\n1976\nAT\np.c.\n+\nUnited States 13c\nMrs. nell yates\n& FORD LIBERRY\nThe White House\nRECEPTION HOUSE & SECURITY\nWashington D.C.\n20599 MAY 1976 2\nProcessed by."
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