Stewardship & Development Staff

Giving of our time, talent, and treasure, in thanksgiving for all the blessings we have received.

Alan James
Parish Stewardship Campaigns
216-774-0449
ajames@dohio.org

Lael Carter
Development Officer
216-774-0475
lcarter@dohio.org

Betty Kondrich kondrich_betty_thumb
Administrative Assistant
216-774-0466
bkondrich@dohio.org

Support the Bishop's Annual Appeal

By giving generously to the Bishop's Annual Appeal, we offer strong support of Episcopal Community Services, as well as provide for new ministries of service in our congregations, Diocese, and Communion.

To support the Bishop's Annual Appeal, please visit our Donations page.

ECS Forms

2012 Church Home Grant Application
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2013 Request for Proposal - ECS
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ECS 2012 Actual Program Budget Form
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ECS 2012 Summer Grant Application

Episcopal Community Services

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Episcopal Community Services

THE BISHOP'S ANNUAL APPEAL & EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES

The Bishop’s Annual Appeal is the vehicle by which Episcopal Community Services (ESC) is supported by the communicants and congregations of the Diocese of Ohio. This annual fundraising effort is essential to ECS’s ability to help parishes fund ministries to the communities they serve. Every year monies raised through the Appeal provide: formational positions for recently ordained clergy; youth and adult mission work in this diocese and beyond; diocesan internships for high school and college students; and other initiatives that build up the vitality for our church. These are ministries in which we share and that we make possible through our combined gifts and ministries. Together we will build communities that grow in love, that give in spiritual fidelity to God, and that serve the world as the very body of Jesus.

Funding Criteria

Encourage education and advocacy
Strong Episcopal Church participation and support
Volunteerism: Important to engage Episcopal volunteers from our congregations

Episcopal Community Services Development Council

Members of the Development Council
*Including year of term expiration

Lorraine Angus (2012)
Les Blakemore (2014)
The Rev. Josh Butler (2014)
Mary Ann Caston (2012)
Jacque Fertick (2013)
Lonny Gatlin (2013)
Cheryl Gray (2012)
The Rev. Lisa Hackney (2013)
Sonia Miller (2013)
Suzanne Palmer (2012)
The Rev. Kelly O'Connell (2012)
Anne Schwan (2014)
Mary Shepherd (2013)
Dick Wilkison(2014)

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Church Home Mission and Criteria

The Church Home Mission Statement Statement

In response to our Baptismal Covenant, the mission of the Church Home is to assist the elderly persons within the Diocese of Ohio through the initiation and/or support of programs which address their housing needs; and/or which provide services and assistance necessary for them to maintain their dignity and enhance their quality of life.

Church Home Funding Information

The program must be for elderly people within the Diocese of Ohio.
Program and/or sponsoring agency must have a 501(c)(3) IRS organizational status.
Program must have Episcopal Church participation through one or more of the following; parish based ministry, Board of Director's membership, senior staff, significant support or volunteers.
Grants may be made for capital or/or operating expenses as appropriate.
The grants are dependent on the availability of funds and the funding decision of the Board of Governors.
No funds will be sent until all paperwork is in.

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The Sheadle Trust

Dear Members of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio,

Jasper H. Sheadle, a devoted Episcopalian, was an executive in the iron and steel industry of Northeast Ohio. He died in 1916. His will provided for his wife, Kate, and, upon her death, established a trust “for the purpose of providing and paying suitable pensions and giving such suitable aid and assistance…. to aged, married couples and aged women residing in Cuyahoga County or Mahoning County, Ohio.” The Sheadle Trust, administered by Key Bank and a board of trustees, continues to provide meaningful stipends to women and men who “have had their income reduced or cut off, so that they are without sufficient means to obtain the necessities or comforts of life.”

The Sheadle Trust invites women and married couples to apply for benefits. Applicants should be age 65 or over, residents of Cuyahoga or Mahoning Counties, not receiving Medicaid, and born in the United States. No single men will be accepted. Members of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio are particularly encouraged to apply.

Please fill out the Sheadle Fund Application and submit it to:
Key Private Bank

Attn: Jasper H. Sheadle Fund

127 Public Square

OH-01-27-1617

Cleveland, OH 44114

If I may shed any further light of this opportunity, please telephone or email me at 216-774-0474 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Many blessings,

The Rev. Marie Phillips,

Interim Canon for Mission