Help Us Save the Episcopal Church in Cuba

Urgent Appeal for the Episcopal Church in Cuba

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We are requesting urgent donations for a GENERAL FUND to sustain the Episcopal Church in Cuba.

You may have seen recent news articles about the extent of the humanitarian catastrophe occurring in Cuba.  You most likely are not aware of the crisis facing the Episcopal Church in Cuba. 

The people are facing extreme food insecurity. 

 Electricity is sporadic – often only a couple of hours a day – so they are unable to refrigerate, cook or cool their homes during this hot humid season.  Most Cubans have unsafe drinking water -- when it is pumped to their homes.

If they can obtain fuel, the cost is a staggering $28 per US gallon – on a typical salary of $16 per month.  

The Episcopal Church in Cuba has been doing everything in its power to help ease the suffering of the people – by providing community meals, clean safe water, solar powered electricity, and community through prayer.

But now the church in Cuba is in peril.  Recent sanctions on banking transactions have prevented the US Episcopal Church from transferring the church operating budget for the past year, so there is no money left to support and sustain the church.  No money for salaries, for food programs, for water programs, for solar programs or for any other general expenses.

The Friends of the Episcopal Church in Cuba – all of you - have been the sole lifeline for the Cuban church.  Through your generosity, we have delivered over $100,000 directly to enable the Church to keep paying the clergy and staff, funding food programs, and purchasing solar panels for powering the churches and water purification systems.  Additional support is being sent directly by US Companion parishes in the form of online food deliveries, medicines, shelf stable food items, solar lamps, and portable generators.

We ask that you give generously and urgently so that The Friends of the Episcopal Church in Cuba – all of you – can enable the Church to survive – until the US Episcopal Church finds a way to transfer funds to Cuba.

We do accept donations through Paypal on our website, but checks are preferred.  Please send checks payable to FECC to: 

Rev. Mark Pendleton, Treasurer, FECC 

218 Post Road, Greenland NH 03840

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

203-858-5794

www.friendsofeccuba.org