An Episcopal Institution
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.
Clergy and a former parishioner of St. Mark's Anglican Church, Umunachi Obowu, Imo State, Nigeria, celebrate receiving grants from National Books Fund and Miles of Pennies during a service in March. Dr. Stephen C. Uche, an active member of St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI, requested the grants for the youth and adults of St. Mark's, then delivered the money and helped church volunteers with transportation and other expenses when they shopped for the books. The purchases, for both adults and children, were presented at a Eucharist celebration that included prayers, singing, dancing, clapping and shouting Alleluias. Each of the books is stamped "Compliments of Church Periodical Club, The Ministry of the Printed Word."
Shown with Dr. Uche are the Archdeacon and the parish priest. Dr. Uche, Environmental and Public Health Consultant, The World Bank and African Development Bank, said his "village church has strength of more than 3,000 and growing, but it is a rural church that lacks everything." Actually it lacks for everything material; it however does not lack enthusiasm and zeal.
All Souls Episcopal Church, established early in the 20th Century in a store front in the oil fields of Midwestern and Edgerton, Wyoming, has an active past. United Thank Offering helped parishioners build a log church with hand peeled logs harvested from Big Horn Mountains in the late 1930's. The building had no water but it had electricity and natural gas, a faithful missioner Louise Blake, and it overlooked the two communities. The missioner, a friend of Province VI Representative Lois Hall's mother, served the church from 1928 to 1964. UTO helped again in 2006. The building was moved to Kaycee, a more active community, and was renovated. The National Books Fund of the Church Periodical Club granted funds for Books of Common Prayer and other worship materials for the "new" church. The Rev. Dana Lohse, rector, says she "anticipates an increasing number of worshippers" and looks forward to seeing the church grow.
For more information about the Church Periodical Club and the projects they support, go to
http://www.churchperiodical.com