Mission Statement
The Church Periodical Club is an independent, affiliated organization of the Executive
Council of the Episcopal Church, dedicated to the worldwide Ministry of the Printed Word and to the
Promotion of Christian Mission. It is the only organization in the Episcopal Church dedicated solely
to providing free literature and related materials, both religious and secular, to people all over the
world who need and request them and who have no other source for obtaining them. Prayer Books, books
for seminarians, educational materials, medical textbooks, agricultural manuals and books for those
in local and global mission are some of the publications The Church Periodical Club supplies.
The Church Periodical Club operates at all levels of the Church - national, provincial, diocesan
and parish. The goal is to make the CPC program a concern of the whole Church. That goal includes
having an active and enthusiastic CPC representative in every parish and diocese.
The Church Periodical Club is funded by voluntary contributions from all levels of the Church by people in the pews. CPC is supported by the prayerful concern, time, talents, labor and money of those who believe in the Ministry of the Printed Word.