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New Episcopal Community Grants
New Episcopal Community grant applications are open for dioceses and mission developers who are envisioning, planning, or growing new worshipping communities and missional enterprises throughout the church. The deadline to apply is September 23, 2025, with grantees announced after the Executive Council meeting in late October.
Types of grants available
The following types of grants are available:
- Discernment Grants: Up to $5,000 to fund the discernment season of a New Episcopal Community. Funds may be used for sending the potential point leader to a gifts assessment retreat, coaching, training, demographic studies, micro-experiments, visits to similar types of ministries, and more.
- Seed Grants: Up to $30,000 to fund the initial stages of a New Episcopal Community’s launch. A seed grant recipient is typically in the first and/or second year of its life cycle. A seed grant application has a strong and realistic ministry plan, the beginnings of a core team, and support from its local diocese.
- Growth Grants: Up to $30,000 to help fund approximately the second and third years of a New Episcopal Community.
- Harvest Grants: Up to $40,000 to help fund the later stages of a New Episcopal Community’s launch (approximately years three to six).
How to apply for new Episcopal community grant
Download a grant application guide and diocesan endorsement forms from the New Episcopal Community grants webpage.
Questions? Email the Rev. Jason Shank, interim church planting network strategist, at jshank@episcopalchurch.org.
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Church of the Redeemer
Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
The Episcopal Church welcomes you.