The Executive Council of The Episcopal Church awarded 19 grants, totaling $135,000, to young adult and campus ministries from dioceses across the U.S., Europe, Caribbean, and South America. The Wilson Center at the University of Maine, Orono, received $5,500 to support its faith-sharing community meals program with the purchase of a new commercial stove and hood.
The Wilson Center, which is ecumenical with “heavy involvement from Episcopal young people and their leadership,” according to diocesan Director of Faith Formation Emily Keniston, is the diocese’s only campus ministry in the state. The center hosts multiple faith-sharing community meals per week and currently rents space at a local community kitchen while planning to expand their facility to include a new kitchen. “Purchasing the stove and hood is a part of that larger effort,” says Keniston. “I’m so delighted to share in this enriching, vibrant, grassroots ministry and know that it’s touching a lot of lives.”
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