Are you connected?

Are you connected to the Episcopal Church Building Fund?

The Episcopal Church Building Fund is eager to help you rethink how your parish is using its physical resources to support and expand its mission. In addition to working with churches and dioceses across the United States individually, we hope that our online presence will encourage the sharing of best practices and ideas amongst clergy and lay staff members who are commonly faced with shrinking budgets, deferred maintenance issues, and dwindling endowments.

You can visit our website to learn more about what the ECBF is all about, "like" us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter  to stay current with what we're up to, or watch one or more videos describing how we are helping churches just like yours on our YouTube channel.

Also, we would like to remind you to save the date for our annual symposium, "Buildings for a New Tomorrow" that will be held from April 15-17, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. Registration will be open on our website here shortly after the first of the year.  Watch a video from last year's symposium online here.

If you have questions about what the ECBF can do for your parish or diocese, please contact a member of our staff.

"Helping you to become unsettled enough to make radical change."

"Helping you to become unsettled enough to make radical change."

That's what the third annual Buildings For a New Tomorrow will do for you.

Please please join us in Baltimore, MD, on April 15-17, 2012 to attend this mind shifting, Go Big or Go Home, national symposium to alter the way you think about doing church.

Last year's "Buildings For a New Tomorrow" was a huge success. We hope that you will take a moment to watch the short video below featuring candid comments and reactions from last year's symposium in Salt Lake City, Utah.

We are committed to bringing you new ideas, inspiration, hope, and valuable connections.

The Emergent Church as a killer app?

The Rev. Jimmy Bartz, Rector, Thad's, Los Angeles, and Episcopal ChurchBuilding Fund Board Member speaks at annual symposium, Buildings for a New Tomorrow.

Learn more about the Episcopal Church Building Fund and our annual symposium, "Buildings for a New Tomorrow" by visiting our website here.

"God and the Range Rover"

The Rev. Jimmy Bartz, Thad's, Los Angeles, and Episcopal Church Building Fund Board Member, talks about the role of buildings and the church.

In the "comments" section below, we invite you to share with us your parish's biggest building issue.

Learn more about the Episcopal Church Building Fund by visiting our website here.

"Man on the street" interviews | ECBF Symposium 2011

In April of 2011, the Episcopal Church Building Fund (ECBF) held a symposium, "Buildings for a New Tomorrow," in Salt Lake City, Utah. Both lay and ordained members of parishes and dioceses from across the United States attended the event, sharing ideas and best practices about how to confront spiraling costs, shrinking budgets, and buildings that are in disrepair. 

At the conclusion of the symposium, several attendees spoke on camera about what they took away from the experience.

The ECBF is currently making plans to hold another symposium in the Spring of 2012.

Learn more about how the ECBF can help your parish or diocese by visiting our website at www.ecbf.org.