[February 7, 2018] The Episcopal Church Executive Council, at its January meeting in Linthicum Heights, MD, approved the recipients of 15 Evangelism Grants, totaling $37,450. The new Episcopal Evangelism Grants Program is designed to fund local and regional evangelism efforts in the Episcopal Church. “This program will encourage our whole Church to share resources, catalyze imagination, and ultimately cultivate a network of evangelists who can learn from each other and conne

“Evangelism has been a priority of the Diocesan Council for the past two years, and we now feel ready to launch more fully into this important aspect of our participation in the Jesus Movement,” Bishop Tom Ely said, adding that we “are ready to go deeper in our witness to Christ by better equipping our leaders (lay and clergy) and our people for a more effective, bold and engaging proclamation of the Gospel.” For the past two years Diocesan Council has made evangelism a prior