St. David’s Episcopal Church announces 2025 outreach grant recipients
This February, St. David’s Episcopal Church awarded $140,000 in grants to eight local organizations and three international Episcopal partners through its St. David’s Cares Grant program. These grants go to organizations within the Greater Philadelphia region or known international partners and are funded in part by the proceeds from the St. David’s Annual Church Fair and proceeds from the Gift Shop & Art Gallery at St. David’s.
This year’s St. David’s Cares grantees are:
Alianzas de Phoenixville to fund the food and essentials program for food insecure immigrants.
Episcopal Community Services toward expanding their food access programs, Mission Meals and Market.
Episcopal Legal Aid to cover deposition expenses for clients of their legal clinics.
Family Promise of the Main Line to sustain emergency shelter programming and graduate services.
Stand with Iraqi Christians to fund a small business redevelopment initiative.
St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, Northeast Philadelphia towards a shower installation in an existing bathroom for homeless and displaced individuals in the community.
St. James School to support the Welcome Table ministries including food distribution, legal aid, 0% interest loans, adult education, and neighborhood services.
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Chester to purchase food for their neighborhood feeding ministry.
In addition, grants were made to St. David’s international ministries, funded through proceeds from both St. David’s Fair and the Gift Shop & Art Gallery and World Gifts program. These grants are dispersed in partnership with the local Episcopal dioceses in their given countries:
To the Episcopal Diocese of Cuba to fund water maintenance supplies, food, medicine, rectory renovation/repairs, and solar lamps.
To the Episcopal Diocese of Guatemala to fund scholarships, a perimeter wall for church, telecom bills, the youth group, outreach, Days for Girls, and rectory repairs.
To Trinity Children’s Center in Mpigi, Uganda to fund the lunches for children.
St. David’s Cares Grant applications are open each year in December, with applications reviewed in mid-January and grants announced in February. St. David’s outreach committee, made up of church members, and guided by a chairperson and Associate Rector, The Rev. Tanya Regli, oversee the grant program, one part of St. David’s overall outreach impact in the local community. The 2025 grants were guided by outgoing Outreach Chairperson, Lois Redmond, and the coming year will be overseen by incoming Chairperson, Andrew Kuhn. Preference for grants is given to organizations affiliated with the Episcopal (Anglican) Church; organizations that involve St. David’s parishioners, with the potential of increasing volunteer opportunities for parishioners; programs that promote or assist self-sufficiency; specific project needs that have a clear start and finish; and for organizations that are located within the Philadelphia, Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks, or Chester counties in Pennsylvania, or our international partner sites.
St. David’s Annual Country Fair is the longest continuously running church fair in the United States, now in its 174th year. It is held on the first Saturday of October and 100% of its proceeds go to fund the St. David’s Cares Outreach Grants. Donations to its flea market, auction tent treasures, and other booths are ongoing. Please save the date for Saturday, October 4, 2025. For more information about making donations to or volunteering with the Fair, please visit https://stdavidschurch.org/fair/.
The Gift Shop & Art Gallery at St. David’s is open year-round and features a selection of unique home décor, jewelry, accessories, books, cards, gifts, food times, and Christian items from popular brands and fair-trade sources worldwide. The gallery features a monthly rotation of local artists. For current hours and more information, please visit https://stdavidschurch.org/giftsandart/.
St. David’s, Radnor, is an Episcopal Church on a mission to know God in Jesus Christ and make Christ known to others. St. David’s is located at 763 South Valley Forge Road, Wayne, PA 19087. For additional information visit the Church’s website at https://stdavidschurch.org/ or call 610.688.7947.
Press release by Natalee Hill, Director of Communications
Posted on February 24, 2025.