Happenings
- 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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| Rosemary Sater (l), Director of the Diocese of Los Angeles and past national President of CPC, and Ethel Marple, Communications Chair, attended the Everyone, Everywhere 2008 global mission conference in Baltimore in June. Rosemary and Ethel first served on the CPC national board together in 1991, relatively young, healthy and energetic. They are slower and older, one's on oxygen and the other uses a walker, but they still keep up with the goings-on in the Ministry of the Printed Word. Linda Brown, NBF Chair, Dorothy Jones, Director of the Diocese of Indianapolis, and Pamela Stewart, office administrator, also attended the event. | 
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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. |
| 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.”ny who never thought they had a future.” |  |
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Clergy and a former parishioner of St. Mark's Anglican Church, Umunachi Obowu, Imo State, Nigeria, celebrate receiving grants from National Books Fund and Miles of Pennies during a service in March. Dr. Stephen C. Uche, an active member of St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, MI, requested the grants for the youth and adults of St. Mark's, then delivered the money and helped church volunteers with transportation and other expenses when they shopped for the books. The purchases, for both adults and children, were presented at a Eucharist celebration that included prayers, singing, dancing, clapping and shouting Alleluias. Each of the books is stamped "Compliments of Church Periodical Club, The Ministry of the Printed Word." Shown with Dr. Uche are the Archdeacon and the parish priest. Dr. Uche, Environmental and Public Health Consultant, The World Bank and African Development Bank, said his "village church has strength of more than 3,000 and growing, but it is a rural church that lacks everything." Actually it lacks for everything material; it does not lack enthusiasm and zeal. |
| Representatives of all four levels of Church Periodical Club volunteers meet at Bruton Parish in Williamsburg, VA. Ursula Baxley, CPC president, spoke to the Episcopal Church Women of Southern Virginia May 15. Gloria Brown, Province III Representative, also attended. Ursula lives in the Diocese of Virginia and Gloria in the Diocese of Washington. The photograph represents the levels of organization of CPC, and the Episcopal Church. From the left are Ursula, Gloria, Angela Barksdale, Southern Virginia Diocesan Director, and parish chairmen, Judy Kaiser, Emmanuel in Hampton; Marian Edmonds, Grace in Norfolk, and Barbara Malone, St. Paul's Memorial Chapel in Lawrenceville. |  |
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All Souls Episcopal Church, established early in the 20th Century in a store front in the oil fields of Midwestern and Edgerton, Wyoming, has an active past. United Thank Offering helped parishioners build a log church with hand peeled logs harvested from Big Horn Mountains in the late 1930’s. The building had no water but it had electricity and natural gas, a faithful missioner Louise Blake, and it overlooked the two communities. The missioner, a friend of Province VI Representative Lois Hall’s mother, served the church from 1928 to 1964. UTO helped again in 2006. The building was moved to Kaycee, a more active community, and was renovated. The National Books Fund of the Church Periodical Club granted funds for Books of Common Prayer and other worship materials for the “new” church. The Rev. Dana Lohse, rector, says she “anticipates an increasing number of worshippers” and looks forward to seeing the church grow. |
| CPC President Ursula Baxley (right) visits with Patti Joy Posan, executive director of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, USA, at its 25th anniversary dinner at St. James Church, Manhattan. CPC and SPCK/USA have a long history of cooperation in their ministries. | 
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