Category: Service and Outreach

The Diocese just connected us with a family from Afghanistan with whom we met last week. They have been here about a month and are living temporarily at an Airbnb, but should be in longer term housing by mid-December. They are a lovely family of six—the parents, two 10 year old twin girls, an 8 year

We are faced with an historic opportunity to make a difference in the lives of refugees from Afghanistan. Epiphany will be working with the Diocese of Olympia to sponsor an Afghan family. But we need your help. Please join parishioners Sherilyn Peterson and Michael Fraas to assist with this initiative.   We have scheduled an

A big thank you to everyone who donated their time, money, and school supplies to the YWCA Backpack Drive! School supplies were a challenge to purchase in bulk this year, but we successfully filled 128 new backpacks, which will be given to students living in the YWCA’s emergency, transitional, and affordable family housing. Additionally, we

Some parishioners are actively involved in projects and organizations that they have asked Service & Outreach to fund. Because of your generous giving at our Have a Heart fundraiser in February, the Service & Outreach team decided we might experiment with a limited mini grant program to respond to such requests.   If you work

The Service & Outreach team recently sent a gift of $25,000 to American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem (AFEDJ). Here is a word of thanks from John Lent, Executive Director of AFEDJ. For the latest updates from Gaza, see this recent post on AFEDJ’s Facebook page.   +   Dear Epiphany Community,