The Episcopal Church invites you to enhance your Good Friday devotion by attending a sacred performance of music devoted to this solemn day. The concert supports of the 103 years of the Good Friday Offering. This offering assists churches, medical programs, and schools in the Anglican Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East.
“This Lent, the need is almost unfathomable,” writes Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe in a letter to Episcopal churches. “We do not know what the political future of the Holy Land will be; but whatever the future, our siblings in Christ in The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East will continue to serve God’s people.”
The concert is an encore presentation recorded in the spring of 2024 at Christ and St. Luke’s Church, Norfolk, in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia. It will air online at noon and 7 p.m. ET April 18 [9:00 am and 4 pm PT] on The Episcopal Church’s Facebook page and website. Viewers will have the opportunity to make donations to the offering during the event.
Good Friday Offering
Churches often collect the Good Friday Offering during Good Friday liturgies. The Episcopal Church first gathered the offering in 1922 to support Anglican ministries in the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East affected by the following:
- Devastation of World War I
- The Spanish flu pandemic
- Social and political unrest affecting Armenian Christians, among others in that region
Over a century later, the Good Friday Offering supports ministry in a wide variety of places, including the following:
- al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, which has continued to provide essential health care services in the midst of war.
- St. George’s Anglican Episcopal Church in Baghdad, Iraq, and its medical center.
- An eye clinic at Christ Church in Yemen.
- All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Damascus, Syria.
- All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beirut, Lebanon.
Find information about ways to give and downloadable resources—in English, French, Mandarin, and Spanish—at iam.ec/goodfridayoffering.
“It is easy to feel powerless in the face of the human suffering we have witnessed in the Holy Land, but with a gift to the Good Friday Offering, we can help The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East turn despair into hope for thousands of God’s people across their region,” Bishop Rowe writes.
More information
For more information, contact Archdeacon Paul Feheley, Middle East partnership officer, at pfeheley@episcopalchurch.org or (212) 716-6222.
News story source: Good Friday Offering, concert to support Middle East ministries.
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