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.

 

Aging – Seniors Ministry

Funding

Central Texas Seniors Ministry – Meals on Wheels, Waco $1,500

Helping One Another, Sealy

$1,200

Columbia Christian Senior Citizens Center, West Columbia

$1,200

The Seniors Place, Houston

$1,250

Rockdale Christian Services, Rockdale

$1,500

St. James House, Baytown

$1,000

Faith in Action Caregivers – Northwest, Austin

$500

St. Alban’s Seniors Ministry, Houston

$650

 

Child/Youth Ministry

Funding

Friends in Deed, Liberty

$1,000

Boys Haven of America, Inc., Beaumont

$500

Girl’s Haven of America, Inc., Beaumont

$500

The Hall at St. Timothy’s, Inc., Lake Jackson

$1,200

St. John’s Bilingual Outreach, Austin

$1,200

St. George’s – Foster Home for Girls Project, Austin

$1,000

Kids Count Foundation, La Porte      

$1,000

 

Ecumenical Multi-Service
Assistance Ministry

Funding

Love in the Name of Christ, Inc., Nacogdoches

$1,000

Love in the Name of Christ, Inc., Lufkin

$1,000

Tomball Emergency Assistance Ministries (TEAM), Tomball

$1,000

Bear Creek Assistance Ministries (BCAM), Houston

$1,000

Southwest Area Ministries, Houston

$2,000

Memorial Assistance Ministries (MAMS), Houston

$1,000

 Christian Community Services Center, Navasota

$1,200

 Interfaith Caring Ministries, League City       

$2,000

 Shelby County Outreach, Center

$1,000

 

Family Assistance Ministries

Funding

Christian Helping Hands, Friendswood

$2,000

Palmer Drug Abuse Program (PDAP), Spring

$1,000

Montgomery County Interfaith Hospitality Network, Conroe

$800

Fort Bend Family Promise, Stafford  

$1,200

Christian Information & Service Center, Lufkin

$1,000

Community Care-Prayer Outreach, Port Neches

$1,000

 Family Time Crisis and Counseling Center, Humble

$500

 Holy Spirit Episcopal Church – Abused Women Ministry, Houston

$2500

 

Health

Funding

Life Share Blood Centers, Orange

$500

Brazosport Medical Center, Freeport

$1,200

St. Peter’s Medicine Assistance Program, Brenham

$1,200

ECHOS Health Clinic, Houston

$1,250

Lake Area Hospice, Jasper

$3,105

Ubi Caritas, Beaumont

$3,740.70

TOMAGWA Ministries Medical Clinic, Tomball

$1,000

 

Homeless Ministry

Funding

Trinity Center, Austin

$1,500

Community of the Streets (COTS), Vision Services, Houston

$1,000

Friday Morning Ministry – St. Mark’s, Beaumont

$500

 

Hunger Programs

Funding

Bellville Christian Food Pantry, Bellville

$1,200

Manna House Third Ward Food Pantry, Houston

$1,000

Laves and Fishes, Austin $1,500
The Storehouse – Food Pantry, Pflugerville

$300

Hardin County Christian Care Center, Silsbee

$1,000

St. Mary’s – “Feed my Lambs”, West Columbia

$1,200

Micah 6 of Austin

$3,000

 

Special Ministry

Funding

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

$1,200

Crisis Pregnancy Center, La Marque

$2,000

Advocacy Center for Crime Victims and Children, Waco

$1,500
World Hunger Relief, Inc, Waco

$4,645

Montgomery County Habitat for Humanity, The Woodlands

$2,000

New Hope Housing, Houston

$1,000

Hospitality Apartments – HRDF, Houston

$1,000

Adoption Center of East Texas, Lufkin

$1,000

Trinity Outreach, Marshall

$1,000

Bishop Leo Pregnancy Assistance Center, Houston

$3,000

Grief Workshop, Houston

$6,000

Migration Ministry Initiative, Episcopal Diocese of Texas

$2,000

Bishop’s Conference on Outreach, Episcopal Diocese of Texas

$3,500

 

Total Grants

$88,440.70

 
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