Nine Do Good & Share Outreach Ministry Grants supporting outreach and community engagement have been awarded by the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee. The grants total $36,120.00.
The purpose of the Do Good & Share Ministry Grants program is to encourage small congregations to try new ways of getting to know their local communities through shared ministries and engagement. The Ministry Grants program is part of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee’s Small Church Initiative.
Awards include Experimental Grants up to $1,000 and Sustaining Grants up to $5,000. Experimental Grants are geared toward projects that help congregations learn about their surrounding neighborhood and engage the work God is already doing by trying something new. Sustaining Grants are aimed primarily at congregations that have already begun working with the community surrounding the church.
The following grants were awarded:
- Grace Episcopal Church (Paris) Loaves & Fishes Initiative: $5,000.00
- Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Memphis) Make a Joyful Noise Scholarship Initiative: $2,000.00
- Immanuel Episcopal Church (La Grange) Community Arts Program: $5,000.00
- Immanuel Episcopal Church (Ripley) Lunch Book Club: $620.00
- Ravenscroft Episcopal Chapel (Brighton) Outreach to Drummonds Elementary School: $5,000.00
- St. Anne’s Episcopal Church (Millington) Laundry Love Initiative: $5,000.00
- St. James Episcopal Church (Bolivar) Hardeman County Drug Court Recovery Project: $4,000.00
- St. Mary’s Cathedral (Memphis) Fresh From the Farm Initiative: $4,500.00
- St. Thomas the Apostle (Humboldt) World Without Technology Initiative: $5,000.00
Every grant application submitted for the 2025 cycle was fully funded.
Please pray for each of these churches throughout the course of their initiative, along with all the outreach ministries of our diocesan community.
Send us now into the world in peace,
and grant us strength and courage
to love and serve you
with gladness and singleness of heart;
through Christ our Lord.
