Director: Mr Keith Jesson
Address: PO Box 115, Sierra Madre, CA, USA
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.africanteamministries.org
Description of Organisation:
This non-profit private voluntary agency supports missions, evangelism, orphans, refugees and famine relief to and through the Church in East Africa. The agency organises preaching missions in the USA for African bishops, and makes African crafts available for sale on consignment in congregations, dioceses and other church settings.
Number of staff: 12
Director: The Revd Canon Tad de Bordenave III
Address: PO Box 18038, Richmond, VA, 23226-8038, USA
Tel: +1 804 355 8468
Fax: +1 804 355 8260
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.anglicanfrontiers.com
Description of Organisation:
The mission of AFM is to see churches planted among the 25 largest and least evangelised people groups in the world. They train and send missionaries and work in co-operation with other agencies in these areas, making full use of new technology and research.
They also bring to the attention of the church the 20 % of the world that is, 1.7 billion lost souls, that the church has neglected. AFM seeks to give a greater emphasis on unreached people group research, church planting and deployment of missionaries to these people groups, most of whom live outside the borders of the Anglican dioceses.
Programmes & Events:
AFM works toward mobilization of the world-wide Anglican Communion for work among the least evangelised. The US office of AFM has assisted several dioceses in Nigeria to form their own branch of Anglican Frontier Missions and is in the process of doing the same in India, East Africa and South Asia. The AFM branch in Nigeria and other parts of the Anglican Communion, although affiliated, function independently.
The training, research, team members, and the development and implementation of strategies all have the flavour of the world wide Body of Christ and is not confined to the Anglican Communion. Therefore, the churches planted will not necessarily be Anglican. Through our missionaries and agency, we represent and urge the Church to go to those overlooked, who may have no face before the Church, but are dearly loved before the face of God.
Area of work:
Middle East, North Africa , South Asia, China, India and Indonesia.
Number of staff: 30
President: Mrs Caroline Armstrong
Address: PO Box 1206, Manorville, NY, 11949, USA
Tel: +1 631 447 3996
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.churchperiodical.com
Description of Organisation:
CPC is committed to supplying theological and educational materials in support of mission efforts around the world. It responds to needs throughout the Anglican Communion using its National Books fund and Miles of Pennies Fund. Parishes and diocesian representatives initiate and support local projects.
Number of staff: 1 part time.
Director: The Revd David Copley
Address: 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, USA
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.episcopalchurch.org/global-partnerships
Description of Organisation:
The ministry of the Office of Global Partnerships is to help “build bridges beyond ourselves”. We serve as a bridge for developing and nurturing relationships between the Episcopal Church and our partners around the Anglican Communion, our ecumenical and interreligious partners, and with organizations such as the United Nations and the National Council of Churches. We are a resource for congregations and dioceses as they develop and foster their own relationships around the world. We actively develop resources to strengthen and facilitate the global mission engagement of the Episcopal Church. We highlight issues of international concern and, in cooperation with colleagues on the Presiding Bishop’s staff mobilize engagement in these issues throughout the Episcopal Church. Our ministry is guided by the mission priorities adopted by General Convention, and the mission priorities of the Presiding Bishop of Evangelism, Reconciliation, and Care of Creation.
Director: Dr Thomas E Williams MD
Address: 606 Rathervue Place, Austin, TX, USA
Tel: +1 210 506 5649
Fax: +1 210 558 4718
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.emmf.com
Description of Organisation:
Episcopal Medical Mission Foundation (EMMF) is an effort on the part of health care professionals and other lay members of the Episcopal Church to organise and augment the support of our medical missionaries as they deliver medical and spiritual aid in Central America, the Caribbean basin, Africa and Russia. Incorporated in 1992, EMMF is an all-volunteer, Charitable organisation with no salaried staff. Primarily a granting agency, it provides long-term funding for medical programmes in foreign dioceses following a site-visit and needs assessment in consultation with local bishops and deans.
Programmes & Events:
Area of work: East Africa, West Africa, Central America.
Number of staff: (Board members) 4 officers and 12 trustees.
Director: The Revd Canon E. Mark Stevenson
Tel: +1 800 334 7626
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.episcopalmigrationministries.org
Description of Organisation:
Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM) lives the call of welcome by supporting refugees, immigrants, and the communities that embrace them as they walk together in The Episcopal Church’s movement to create loving, liberating, and life-giving relationships rooted in compassion. EMM’s desire to honor the inherent value of human connection brings communities together to love their neighbors as themselves.
President: Dr Robert W Radtke
Address: 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, USA
Tel: +1 212 518 0512
Fax: +1 212 687 5302
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.episcopalrelief.org
Description of Organisation:
Episcopal Relief and Development (Formerly the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief) is the major response of the Episcopal Church of the USA to help people in need in the US and around the world.
Programmes & Events:
ERD provides funds to relieve the suffering of those affected by natural and man-made disasters; undertakes the rehabilitation of homes, schools and lives; and provides grants for humanitarian programs in the US and worldwide. ERD works in collaboration with other partners form ECUSA and the Anglican Communion, as well as through ecumenical networks.
Area of work:
Africa, Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, Middle East, Europe, North America.
Executive Director: The Revd Mark Harris
Address: PO Box 246,Federal Station, Newark, DE, USA
Tel: +1 770 879 0321
Fax: +1 302 368 5744
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.gemn.org
Description of Organisation:
The GEM Network is an association of dioceses which seeks to fulfil their responsibilities as the Church's basic unit of mission by increasing the awareness, understanding, and participation of their congregations in global mission through prayer, education, financial support, and publication of opportunities; and by supporting one another in the receiving and sending of missionaries.
Programmes & Events:
The annual Mission Education Conference, a Manual for Mission Sending, Receiving and Discernment and a Mission Consultant for Diocesan and Regional Mission Development.
Area of work:
East Africa, West Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East,North Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Australasia & Pacific, South America, North America, Central America, Caribbean, Europe, Russia.
Number of staff: 1 part time
National Director: Mrs Edwina Thomas
Address: 5290 Saratoga Lane, Woodbridge, VA, USA
Tel: +1 703 878 7667
Fax: +1 703 878 7015
Email: [email protected]
Description of Organisation:
SOMA seeks to enable the church to fulfil the great commission of Jesus Christ by proclaiming the Kingdom of God and ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit. They do this through short term mission teams which serve at the invitation of the local Bishop. SOMA conducts renewal conferences for church leaders worldwide, they are also ecumenical in scope where it is possible and appropriate. The ministry's focus is on the diocesan, national or provincial church leadership who are encouraged and equipped so that they are able to work with congregations on the local level.
Programmes & Events:
SOMA's short term mission teams, composed of lay and clergy (of 2-9 people), to work in Anglican dioceses for periods from around 1-3 weeks. Several have gone on to become full time missionaries. They respond to requests and in true partnership the host provides conference expenses, (food, lodging, transport) Although they do not give grants, SOMA will help some host Dioceses with conference expenses.
Area of work:
East Africa, West Africa, Central / Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, East Asia, South America, North America, Central America, Caribbean, Europe, Australia and Pacific.
Number of staff: 3 full time staff, 2 part time staff, 13 members of the board of directors, 102 missionaries in 1999, approx. 70 volunteers.
Acting Executive Director: Mr Stuart Wicker
Address: PO Box 399, Ambridge, PA, USA
Tel: +1 724 266 0669
Fax: +1 724 266 5681
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.sams-usa.org
Description of Organisation:
SAMS sends long and short-term missionaries to Latin America and Spain to communicate the Good News of Jesus Christ through work and deed. SAMS missionaries serve in a wide range of evangelistic and social ministries, including church planting and teaching, pastoral ministries, medical ministry and theological education.
Programmes & Events:
Through SAMS there are opportunities for missionary service that range all the way from one week to a career in mission. SAMS offers a training conference for short-term mission team leaders, and helps co-ordinate mission trips.
Area of work: South America, Central America, Europe.
Number of staff: 5 full time staff 8 part time.
Executive Director: The Revd Patrick Gahan
Address: Box 879, Sewanee, TN, USA
Tel: +1 615 598 1476
Fax: +1 615 598 1107
Description of Organisation:
SPCK/USA was formed in the University of the South in 1983. It began as part of the co-operating network of SPCK's in Great Britain, India, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. All of the individual Societies are autonomous. Its mission is to provide resources for Christian discipleship around the world. The society helps people explore and grow in the Christian faith through a variety of projects.
Programmes & Events:
Adopt-A-Seminary is an ongoing project that provides used theological texts to schools and seminaries in more than 126 countries. Provides books for study and worship, seminarian scholarships, grants to print and publish books and prayer book translations.
Area of work:
East Africa West Africa, Central and Southern Africa Middle East & North Africa, South Asia East Asia, South America, North America Central America, Caribbean Europe.
Number of staff: 3 staff members many volunteers, Board of Directors.
Deputy for Grants: The Revd Jamie Gaines Callaway Jr
Address: Trinity Parish Church,74 Trinity Place, New York, NY, 10006-2088, USA
Tel: +1 212 602 0710
Fax: +1 212 602 0717
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.trinitywallstreet.org
Description of Organisation:
Trinity Grants Program was established in 1971 to reach out across the communion to assist people to help themselves. It is a ministry of the Parish of Trinity Church, works in partnership with the Anglican churches and ecumenical consortiums, primarily in Africa. The professional staff investigates and evaluates requests for funding; make recommendations for funding to the Grants Board that meets four times a year; and monitors the conduct of the grant. At the end of the grant time frame, staff evaluates results for a formal report to the Board.
Programmes & Events:
Area of work:
West Africa, East Africa, Central and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Asia and Pacific, South America, Central America, North America, Caribbean.
Number of staff: approx 7.