Diocesan Announcements

As part of their responsibility to fulfill the recently passed Resolution to help congregations in their mission to Focus on the Needs of Children, the Justice Board has designed a simple questionnaire to collect information on current and desired mission ventures.

Recently we asked for parish leadership to take a few moments to fill out this on-line survey in the Leadership News and had no responses. We are extending the deadline until May 25. We hope that you can attend to this task as it will greatly help the Justice Board’s work of developing resources to help our common mission and ministry. We invite as many of you and/or your congregational leaders to engage in this exercise as would be appropriate. There is no limit.

In this video, Shantia Clyburn of St. Paul's After School Program describes how the Alleluia Fund supports their work providing enrichment programming and one-on-one homework assistance to second through fifth graders in Paterson, NJ.

We still have many care packages designated for people serving in the military, made by our youth at Confirmation Retreats.

Over the last several years, the support of children has emerged as a primary focus of the work of the Diocese of Newark. The 138th Diocesan Convention passed a resolution inviting congregations to consider children as a focus of their mission. In order to support our ongoing efforts, the Justice Board will compile and assemble a report that will identify the current work already in progress, the mission work being considered and the challenges that might be overcome.

As leaders, we need your help in gathering this information. Please take some time to complete a brief questionnaire by Monday, April 30. It is our hope this report will become a resource in our shared mission to children.

In this video, Jaclyn Cherubini of the Hoboken Shelter describes how the Alleluia Fund enables them to shelter the homeless and provide meals to the homeless and working poor.

Each year during the Easter season, the people and congregations of our diocese join together as "flashlights of faith" to support outreach and mission by making gifts to the Alleluia Fund.

Congregations with parishioners to be confirmed, received, or reaffirmed are responsible for filling the various service participant roles at the Confirmation services April 15 - May 12, 2012.

Information regarding the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit for 2011 is available here in PDF format.

The 2012 Federal Reporting Requirements for Episcopal Churches, prepared and issued by Church Pension Group, is now available. This resource includes information relating to:

A reminder that the deadline for submitting your 2011 Parochial Reports was March 1, 2012.