Notable Web links in Alphabetical Order
AmeriCares
HomeFront
AmeriCares HomeFront is the largest domestic outreach
program of the AmeriCares Foundation. Since its beginning
17 years ago, HomeFront has restored Hope and
given Help to over 1,953 families and community centers throughout the state
of Connecticut and into Westchester and Putnam counties, New York. This effort,
to help our needy neighbors, is centered on an annual one day a year housing
repair blitz in which teams of 20-40 volunteers go out into the community and
perform typical home repairs that keep people "warm, safe, and dry."
http://www.americareshomefront.org/AboutUs.asp
Anglicans
Online
A
comprehensive and global
site for the Anglican
Communion.
http://www.anglicansonline.org
Book
of Common Prayer (All versions)"The
Book of Common Prayer is one of the major works of English literature. Since
its introduction in the mid-1500's it has exerted enormous influence on the
religious and literary lives of all who speak the English language. The Book
of Common Prayer has gone through a number of editions, not only in England
where it originated, but in all the places where the various Churches of the
Anglican communion are now active." http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/
Connecticut
Food Bank (CFB)
"CFB is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to alleviate
hunger by supplying food products and resources to eligible agencies throughout
our service areas in Connecticut, and to promote public awareness about the problem
of hunger."
http://www.ctfoodbank.org
Cover
the Uninsured Week 2004
"Rising health care costs continue to undermine the ability of individuals,
businesses and state governments to purchase health care coverage. Reversing
this disturbing trend, elevating this issue on the national and local agendas,
and creating an environment in which taking action would be required were the
goals of Cover the Uninsured Week 2004." Use
the "About the Issue section to get the latest information including key
facts, data charts and current legislation before Congress.
http://covertheuninsuredweek.org/issue/
Episcopal
News Service:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens/
Episcopal
Relief and Development
"Episcopal Relief and Development provides emergency
assistance and rehabilitative support to people affected by
natural disasters, war, and civil strife. It is the collective
response
of Episcopalians to help people in need in the United States
and around the world."
http://www.er-d.org/
Fellowship
of Reconciliation (FOR)
"The Fellowship of Reconciliation seeks to replace violence, war, racism,
and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice. We are an interfaith
organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life
and as a means of radical change. We educate, train, build coalitions, and engage
in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally."
http://www.forusa.org/
Second
Harvest
"America's Second Harvest provides emergency food assistance to more than
23 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of whom are children."
http://www.secondharvest.org
Sojourners
Winner of 15 Associated Church Awards, "Sojourners is a Christian ministry
whose mission is to proclaim and practice the biblical call to integrate spiritual
renewal and social justice.
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm
The
Episcopal Bridgebuilders
"A coalition of Episcopal churches in the Greater Bridgeport
area committed to addressing the need for affordable housing in our area
and the problem of racial, ethnic and socioeconomic division among our people.
http://www.episcopalbridgebuilders.org/pages/923315/index.htm
The
Episcopal Church, USA
http://www.dfms.org/
The
Episcopal Church and Visual Arts
"The Episcopal Church offers a program to encourage visual arts in the life
of the Episcopal Church.Backed by a grant from the Presiding Bishop, The Episcopal
Church and Visual Arts has created five online exhibitions on its website, www.ecva.org,
and has begun to generate energetic conversations about the role of visual arts
in our spiritual journeys."
http://www.ecva.org/index.html
The
Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
http://www.ctdiocese.org/
Episcopal
Life on the Web
"We exist to inform, inspire and involve the people of God in the Episcopal
Church in three ways -- reporting accurately and fairly events and issues in
the church and the Anglican Communion, welcoming a healthy exchange of ideas
and opinions, and nurturing the ministry to which our baptism calls us."
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/episcopal-life/
The Witness (an
An Episcopal social justice magazine, "We are a feisty, independent. provocative,
intelligent, feminist voice of Christian social conscience."
http://thewitness.org/
