ECOM Funding Grants


Community Outreach Goals for the diocese

Episcopal Community Outreach Ministries was created by action of Council in 1989 to support, encourage and develop outreach ministries within the Diocese of Texas. The outreach grants listed in this report are made possible by your support of the Mission Funding Catalog. Designations to ECOM come back to your community in the form of these supportive outreach grants.

Bishop Don A. Wimberly has outlined the following outreach goals for our diocese

Goals:

• Create opportunities to train outreach coordinators in each congregation.
• Expect that every congregation will have an outreach coordinator.
• Expect that every congregation will be involved in outreach to their neighborhood and community.
• Develop ways to bridge congregations who have similar outreach interests, bringing to bear the resources we have as one church.

 To assist the diocese in accomplishing these goals, Episcopal Community Outreach Ministries provides for :

• A strong network of convocational and parish outreach representatives who will foster and promote the mission of outreach goals of the diocese.
• Provide outreach grants to support,encourage and indorse congregational outreach efforts.
• Provide one time funding grants to new programs or ideas where there is a highdegree of Episcopal involvement.
• Support the Outreach Office of the Diocese of Texas which provides an Outreach Coordinator to assist congrega- tions and clergy in supporting the outreach efforts of the diocese.

ECOM Grants 2009 by Category

 

Aging- Seniors Ministry
Funding

Meals on Wheels, Waco

$915.00



Child/Youth Ministry

 

St. Alban's - Kids Hope USA, Austin

$1,500

Christ Church Cathedral- At Risk Youth Project

$800

Voices for Children, Inc., CASA of Brazos Valley

$1,200

Some other Place, Inc.-Back to School Program, Beaumont

$1,000

Christ the King- Summer Outreach for Children, Stafford

$1,200

Christian Community Service Center - Back to School, Houston

$300

Kids Count Foundation, La Porte  

$1,500

 

Ecumenical Multi-Service
Assistance Ministry

 

Love in the Name of Christ, Inc., Nacogdoches

$800

Love in the Name of Christ, Inc., Lufkin

$800

Tomball Emergency Assistance Ministries (TEAM), Tomball

$960

Churches Touching Lives for Christ

$1,828

Lakes Area Care, Inc. Burnet

$1,400

West Houston Assistance Ministries Houston

$1,800

 Humble Area Assistance Ministries

$480

 

Family Assistance Ministries

 

Family Promise of Clear Creek, Pearland

$2,400

Family Promise of Bryan-College Station, College Station

$1,700

MCIHN Montgomery County Interfaith Hospitality Network

$960

Fort Bend Family Promise, Stafford

$1,500

Christian Information & Service Center, Lufkin

$800

Community Care-

$1,800

 Humble Area Assistance Ministries

$480

 

Health
 

Life Share Blood Centers, Orange

$500

Brazosport Medical Center, Freeport

$2,000

 

Homeless Ministry
 

Community of the Streets (COTS), Houston

 $1,500

 

Hunger Programs
 

Bellville Christian Food Pantry, Bellville

$700

Boys and Girls Country of Houston, Inc., Cypress

$960

Loaves and Fishes, Austin $1,000
The Storehouse – Food Pantry, Pflugerville

$600

Hardin County Christian Care Center, Silsbee

$1,000

"Feeding Program"- Christ Church, Matagorda

$1,000

Micah 6 of Austin

$400

 

Special Ministry
 

St. John’s "Rhiannon’s Place", Columbus

$1,200

Crisis Pregnancy Center, La Marque

$2,400

Palmer Place Apartment Ministry, Houston

$500
World Hunger Relief, Inc, Waco

$2,057

Casa Marianella, Austin

$900

New Hope Housing, Houston

$750

Hospitality Apartments – HRDF, Houston

$1,250

GODTEL Ministries, Lufkin

$800

Trinity Outreach, Marshall

$800

New Destination, Inc., Carthage

$800

Just Out-Fresh Start, Inc., Port Neches

$1,300

"Prairie Project"-St. Mary's, West Columbia

$300

 
Total Grants

$49,000.00

 
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