Why Mission Matters: Stories from the Field

"A great thrill for me was meeting a seminarian at Virginia Theological Seminary who, as a child, plated crosses with his family in order to have funds to pay his school fees. Now he is the head master at an Anglican School in Tanzania. A simple ting, like a palm cross, can be an instrument of God's work in the world."

It is so easy to think that we have so much to offer the people of the Diocese of Southeast Mexico and the Diocese of Renk Sudan. In relative...

"Charity is a quality of the heart and soul, rather than an isolated good deed of giving. The source of your charitable giving is not your own will but the will of God. Charity is therefore a divine act... a sacrament, where, in your giving you make GOD a real presence."

The Children of Chernobyl mission at Christ Church is in its 14th year. The founder of the program was the late Joe Bailey, a photographer for National Geographic, who went to Belarus after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in April 1986. Moved by the desperate situation of the people of Belarus...

"Let the children come to me: do not try to stop them for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Mark 10:14. And "I say to you whatever you did for one of these least of mine, you did for me."

Matthew 25:40

The Church Periodical Club is an Episcopal institution; its ministry is to supply books, magazines, tapes, videos and computer programs free to those who cannot otherwise obtain them and to raise the money to do this. Below are two recent projects supported by the CPC.