In partnership with the United Nations Special Envoy for Education, the Tutudesk Campaign provides the answer to the classroom desk shortage crisis experienced in schools in developing countries. Over 95 million children in schools across sub-Saharan Africa have no access to a classroom desk making functional literacy - the ability to read and write - impossible to acheive. Tutudesk offers children their very own workstation creating immediate, high impact and positive change in an instant, under any learning conditions. Tutudesk is a proven solution to a literacy development and general...

Non-profit organization Cool Girls celebrated 200 girls for their hard work in school last year at a special event hosted by the St. Peter and St. Paul Episcopal Church in Marietta. For more than 25 years, the Episcopal church has supported the organization’s mission to instill confidence, self-respect, and leadership to hundreds of second through eighth-grade girls in nine metro Atlanta Title 1 elementary and middle schools. The event included activities such as face painting, hip-hop dancing, Chick-fil-A lunch, and shopping in the church’s boutique. The girls received a new book...

Trinity Church, Wall Street awarded a grant of $400,000 to the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing in early June to serve as a convenor for The Episcopal Church on anti-racism initiatives through providing training to youth, clergy, and lay leaders. “We are delighted to be able to support your program, and we look forward to hearing of its progress and impact,” said The Reverend Dr. William Lupfer, the rector of Trinity Church. Through its Grants Program, Trinity Church Wall Street collaborates in mission and ministry with churches and organizations in the United States...

The Episcopal Community Foundation for Middle and North Georgia is currently accepting applications for both of our grant programs: Q4 Small Acts of Charity Grants: due September 15, 2018 General Grant LOIs: due September 31, 2018 Those interested in applying for funding should visit ECFimpact.org/grants for instructions and the link to each application. Applicants are encouraged to contact Executive Director Lindsey Hardegree at lhardegree@episcopalatlanta.org or (404) 601-5362 with any questions they may have regarding eligibility or their applications.

We at Christ Church Episcopal, Norcross, GA, are looking for a few good men and women who would be interested in an Education for Ministry (EfM) class that meets during the day. If you would like to explore your spirituality and develop your personal theology and are unable to attend a night class, email or call Dianne Olson at dolson42668@gmail.com or 770-851-2472, or Ellen Lewis at elewis3000@yahoo.com or 678-546-0844. If there is enough interest (we need at least 6 people) in a day class, we will get started on forming one. So, if you have any interest, please let us know so we can get to...

The Episcopal Community Foundation for Middle and North Georgia is currently accepting applications for both of our grant programs:Q4 Small Acts of Charity Grants: due September 15, 2018General Grant LOIs: due September 31, 2018Those interested in applying for funding should visit ECFimpact.org/grants for instructions and the link to each application.Applicants are encouraged to contact Executive Director Lindsey Hardegree at lhardegree@episcopalatlanta.org or (404) 601-5362 with any questions they may have regarding eligibility or their applications.

The 79th annual General Convention, held July 4-13, has been a venue for many conversations over the past week. Along with other topics, dioceses throughout the country have come to share words, wisdom, questions, and challenges facing their communities and Christians at large. Among them all, one message from the Diocese of Atlanta’s own Dr. Catherine Meeks rang loud and clear.“We are saying, at the Absalom Jones Center, to racism, that your time is over,” Dr. Meeks told the audience in one of the TEConversations.Dr. Meeks is the executive director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial...

General Convention commits to racial reconciliation and becoming a ‘Beloved Community’ "Efforts that began in 2015 with action by General Convention, when racial reconciliation was identified as a priority of the Episcopal Church, is bearing fruit in work done during the 79th General Convention." Click here to read the full Episcopal News Service article. The 79th annual General Convention, held July 4-13, has been a venue for many conversations over the past week. Along with other topics, dioceses throughout the country have come to share words, wisdom, questions, and challenges facing...

Archdeacon Juan Sandoval, who leads the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta’s immigration support programs, talks about how this issue places America at the intersection of compassion and politics. Fast forward to 42:33 to hear the discussion.You can also listen to the audio recording on WABE's website. 

Deputies and bishops from throughout The Episcopal Church have begun reading and preparing fervently for the legislation and events which await us in Austin, Texas, July 5-13, 2018. I am so honored to be one of the deputies from the Diocese of Atlanta, and I am glad to provide a brief description of what is in store for us this summer. My favorite description of General Convention is that it can be divided among three equal parts: “part national (or churchwide) legislature session, part local county fair, and part huge family reunion.” Surely, one exciting part of convention is the...