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Tools for Diaconal Ministry: Domestic Poverty & Social Justice

Violence Prevention Curriculum  from The Diocese of Missouri
"Each Other's Keeper: The Church's Response to Violence"
The program is made up of six chapters, each on different violence-related topics:
  • Violence in Scripture
  • Violence in American Popular Culture
  • Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis
  • Youth Bullying and Suicide
  • Domestic Abuse and Sexualized Violence
  • Forgiveness and Reconcilliation
Details and download.

Episcopal Public Policy Network
Advocating for Change: Focusing around five policy areas: Creation Care, Ending Poverty, Racial Reconciliation, Migration, Refugees & Immigration, and Human Rights & Peacebuilding. 
Immigration Resources
Forward Movement's 2018 No Longer Strangers: Exploring Immigration Issues encourages discussion through the lens of scripture and Christian values. With opposing viewpoints, biblical references, scriptural migrations and questions for personal study and group discussion. English and Spanish.

Holy Nagging: Advocating for Domestic Violence Survivors
By Deaconess Rachel Patman, United Methodist Women's magazine, Response
October 2015. Download.

Gun Violence: Conversing with your congregation
Published by Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, 2014. Download.

Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) Disaster Resource Library
Includes disaster preparedness, curriculum for youth and adults, planning and best practices. Here.

ERD Ready to Serve database
Add your name to the database of volunteers, ready to respond to a disaster.

Refugee Resources
Refugee Ministry 101
Massachusetts Workshop, Fall 2015. Workshop Handouts. Slideshow.

Share the Journey: Refugee Resource Toolkit
Episcopal Diocese of Texas. 2015. Download.

Not Just Numbers: Educational Toolkit on Migration and Asylum in Europe.
Published by IOM and UNHCR. 2015. Download.

AED Domestic Poverty Toolkit
     Developed for use during Lent, 2011

Materials are organized in 3 categories:
1. Defining & Measuring Poverty
  • Measuring Poverty in the US - Fact Sheet
  • Concepts of Income Distribution, Wealth & Poverty

2. Teaching Congregations about Poverty
  • Starting a Community Garden
  • 5-week Congregational Study: Where there is despair, hope.
  • Stations of the Cross & Suffering today - a chart
  • Just Neighbors - Family Promise's educational program
  • Called to Serve: The Church responds to domestic poverty, April 2010. A sermon by The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
  • Systems & Economic Justice
  • Teaching Poverty - Links to online resources
  • Poverty Sunday Toolkit - produced by Sojourners, 2008

3. Telling the Story of Poverty
  • Community Garden Leadership Handbook


  • Tools for Diaconal Ministry ​
  • Continuing Education
  • ​Community Organizing

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AED is a membership association of persons and dioceses within The Episcopal Church whose mission is to increase participation and involvement of all baptized persons in Christ's diaconal ministry, especially by promoting and supporting the diaconate.
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