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National Books Fund Dates for Spring 2008
Apr. 1 - Pledges due
Apr. 15 – NBF Grants Awarded
CPC Quarterly Spring Issue Deadline -- April 15
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Erik, Evan, Garrett and Zachary look over St. George's new Sunday School books and materials purchased with a grant from the Miles of Pennies Fund. St. George's Church is in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Vernon Wilson visits with old friends at the Southern Virginia Annual Council.
Vernon Wilson, a volunteer missionary of the Episcopal Church, received a National Books Fund grant in 2001 for manuals to start a jewelry making school in Belize. A goldsmith and master jeweler now has a jewelry manufacturing school at the Belize prison. He works with some prisoners about once a month and, between his visits, they use the manuals to make jewelry in their rehabilitation program. The Jewelry School at the prison has a 75 per cent success rate. Wilson says, “That grant is changing the lives of many who never thought they had a future.”
