Jubilee Ministry is faith in action--loving God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength by loving our neighbors as ourselves. Our faith in God compels us to serve each other. Jubilee Ministry connects these two important dynamics of the spiritual journey, enabling God's reconciling work to be seen through us.

Sharing the stories of Jubilee Ministry is a vital part of this work. We connect with each other through sharing our joys, struggles, disappointments and triumphs. Below are the latest stories from Jubilee Centers across the church. If you have a story to share, please contact the Advocacy Center.

Working together for justice.

[10/5/2009]  Prime Time House's Community Garden Thrives
[The Register Citizen, October 5, 2009] A decade ago the Prime Time House, which assists those with mental disabilities find a path to independence, started a garden for the organization’s members. Then, Harwinton residents Ann and Thomas Bott, who are members of Trinity Episcopal Church, helped organize an effort to create a community garden, bringing it up to the scale it is today.
[9/1/2009]  Hunger here: Local food pantries are seeing an increase in need
[Tulsa World-8/31/09] The Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma distributed more than a million pounds of food to area food pantries in July, the largest one-month amount in its history. That's 25 semi-trailers full of food, enough for 852,548 meals. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, Oklahoma is the eighth-hungriest state, with 4.7 percent of the population considered hungry and an extra 13 percent considered food insecure.
[8/26/2009]  TEXAS: Grants enable Austin clinic to serve 4,000 more needy patients
[Episcopal News Service, August 26, 2009] El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission in southwest Austin, Texas, has received grants from St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities and other agencies that will enable it to serve 4,000 more underinsured and uninsured working poor patients.
[8/17/2009] 
[Episcopal News Service, August 17, 2009] Sheryl Shumaker never intended to show up at the Food Pantry run by St. Raphael’s Church in Security, on the outskirts of Fort Carson. She’d just been deemed eligible to receive surplus government food, and she was hunting for the commodity distribution center, which was somewhere on Leta Drive. St. Raphael’s is on Leta Drive too. She wound up there purely by mistake. But what a blessed mistake it was!
[8/11/2009] 
[August 11, 2009] People Helping People, in the Diocese of Fort Worth, is a food and clothing ministry in Granbury, TX. It has been run entirely by volunteers, led by Ermine Laurence, since 1983 and serves approximately 300 individuals and 700 families each month.