National Book Fund

The National Book Fund fills grant requests for ADULT needs at least twice a year to selected applicants. It supplies educational materials, printed and audio visual materials, and computer software. There have been requests for periodicals for missions and  emergency calls to replace Prayer Books and hymnals that have been destroyed. This book fund has sent scriptural resources for overseas seminary students and  study guides for local adult Bible study groups. We send a stipend annually to our graduating seminarians at the Virginia Theological Seminary. There may be projects underway in your parish which possibly qualify for a grant.

Click here to view the Grants Awarded for 2004

HOW CAN WE GIVE

1. Confer with your priest and schedule a Sunday for the annual National book Fund Ingathering.

2. Write a brief article for the bulletin or your parish newsletter to explain this special worldwide mission that is part of the ECW agenda. Inform parishioners about recipients who have been given help.

3. Prepare offering envelopes and place them in your bulletins on National Book Fund Sunday along with a copy of the CPC Prayer. the prayer is in the current ECW Yearbook and also on this website.

4. Collect funds and mail them to our diocesan treasurer with the notation that the funds are earmarked for the National Book Fund.

HOW DO WE MAKE NBF GRANT REQUESTS

Current projects in the planning stage may qualify your church for a grant. Your parish CPC representative should contact Johnetta R. Merritt, Diocesan CPC Chair at (804) 330-9107 or e-mail   jgreymer@aol.com  or click here to Print the NBF Applicaton Form .

For more information on Church Periodical Club visit their website by clicking here, www.episcopalchurch.org/CPC and click into Grants.

Please Note: Your completed requests MUST be approved by our Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee before being submitted. The Granting Office no longer considers grant requests that benefit only one individual.