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Christ’s Beloved Community/Comunidad Amada de Cristo, Winston-Salem, Receives Hunger Grant from ELCA

All of us at Christ’s Beloved Community/Comunidad Amada de Cristo, Winston-Salem, were overjoyed to hear we had received a $500 hunger grant from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

We are located in Southside, in a food desert, and we have experienced a sharp increase in the number of people coming to us for food during COVID-19. Just a few weeks ago, our food pantry completely ran out of food for the first time, and we had to turn people away. The matching hunger grant has allowed us to raise more than $2,500 in additional donations. Two of our major donors were from our area Partners in Ministry: Epiphany Lutheran Church and Augsburg Lutheran Church. Area Episcopal churches and several parishioners and members of the community have also donated due to increased awareness of our need.

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100% of the money we have raised for our food pantry is going toward food and essential supplies for our food pantry patrons. We turn no one away, and we do not require documentation or identification, so we are truly able to feed and serve any and all people. God has shown up for us in this process by repeatedly showing us that when we ask, God provides. At one point, every room in our church was full of food thanks to individual and church contributions. Good people of faith are longing to find a way to serve others during this time even as those who are food insecure are looking for food.

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It has been a privilege to be on the receiving end of people’s generosity, and on the giving end as we fill people’s trunks with food during our drive-by food pantry openings. I routinely pray with people in the parking lot as they wait to receive food. People are often overwhelmed with thanks, tears in their eyes, and joy in their hearts as we bring an abundance of food to them. And they bless us with their gratitude and their joy. Several families have told us they want to worship with us when we are able to be back in our church building because they see our commitment to serving them during these times. All of this is made possible by the generosity of denominations, churches and individuals.

Christ is risen indeed, Alleluia!


By the Rev. Chantal McKinney, mission developer and founding pastor


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The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman
XII Bishop Diocesan of North Carolina
The Rt. Rev. Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple
VI Bishop Suffragan of North Carolina

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman

XII Bishop Diocesan of North Carolina

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman was ordained and consecrated as the XII Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina in Duke Chapel on the campus of Duke University in Durham on July 15, 2017. He was elected on March 4, 2017.

Prior to his election, Bishop Rodman served as the Special Projects Officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, a role he took on after spending five years as the diocesan project manager for campaign initiatives, where he engaged congregations, clergy and laity, in collaborative local and global mission through the Together Now campaign, helping to raise $20 million to fund these initiatives. Prior to that, he spent 16 years as the rector of St. Michael’s in Milton, Massachusetts, during which the parish established a seven-year plan that included a capital campaign for a major renovation of the church school building.

Ordained in 1988, Bishop Rodman is a graduate of Bates College and Virginia Theological Seminary. He and his wife of 32 years, Deborah, live in Raleigh. They are the parents of two adult daughters. In his free time, Bishop Rodman enjoys basketball, golf, kayaking, crosswords and creative writing.

The Rt. Rev. Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple

VI Bishop Suffragan of North Carolina

Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple was elected the Diocese's sixth Bishop Suffragan and the first female bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina on January 26, 2013, at the 197th Annual Convention. She was consecrated on June 15, 2013, in Duke Chapel on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Bishop Hodges-Copple grew up in Dallas, Texas, and attended Duke University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1979 with a major in public policy. She earned her Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, in 1984.

In the years between college and seminary and then seminary and ordination, Hodges-Copple worked as a community organizer in Massachusetts and Appalachia and as a shelter director for victims of domestic violence in North Carolina. She was ordained a deacon in 1987 and a priest in 1988.

Bishop Hodges-Copple has served her entire ordained life in the Diocese of North Carolina, working 13 years in parish ministry and 13 years as a campus minister. She served as the rector of St. Luke’s, Durham, until she was elected to the episcopate. Bishop Hodges-Copple has a particular passion for shaping mission and ministry to be attuned to the voices, needs and wisdom of disempowered communities.

In her role as Bishop Suffragan, Bishop Hodges-Copple has particular responsibilities in campus and young adult ministries, new mission starts (Galilee ministries), the Racial Justice and Reconciliation Commission, the ordination process for the diaconate, global partnerships for mission, ecumenical and interfaith collaborations and the pastoral care of retired clergy, their spouses and surviving spouses. In the spring of 2018, she led a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, her third such pilgrimage, and plans another in 2020.

Hodges-Copple is currently a member of the Executive Council for The Episcopal Church, the Board of Historic Black Colleges & Universities and the Task Force for Social Advocacy. She served on the Special Legislative Committee for Marriage at the 2015 General Convention in Salt Lake City and chaired the House of Bishops’ Legislative Committee on Social Concerns at the 79th General Convention in Austin, Texas. She is also a member of the Bishops United Against Gun Violence.

During the transition between the 11th and 12th Bishops of North Carolina, she served as Bishop Diocesan Pro Tempore, the ecclesiastical authority of the diocese.

She and her husband, John, have three adult children. John is Director of Planning for the Triangle J Council of Governments.

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