Nationwide fund-raising initiative

CoGS approved a new proposal for a nationwide diocesan-based fundraising initiative and an additional $200,000 in funding. “This is a new committee that has a new interim director and a new chair,” said Archdeacon Michael Thompson, CoGS representative on the committee. Vianney Carriere, a member of General Synod’s management team, is interim director and Monica Patten is the chair of the committee. “What is being envisioned is a number of campaigns in dioceses pulled together by a centralized staff at General Synod,” explained Suzanne Lawson, a consultant and former executive director of program for General Synod. “The attempt is to turn around the financial future of the whole church….” A feasibility study for the initiative will be conducted in up to 10 dioceses.

-LAW