With Advent a few days away, some parishes will collect their traditional Advent offerings for the support of Anglican missions. The Anglican Bible and Book Society encourages parishes to consider aiding fellow traditional Anglicans this year. By donating as little as $200, a parish can outfit a small Anglican mission with new prayer books.

The Society can provide ten copies of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer to small mission churches for a cost of $200. The simple gift of ten prayer books will allow a small mission to conserve its resources for other important expenses such as paying rent, purchasing bread and wine for Holy Communion, or keeping the electricity on. With the generous donation of $200, an established parish can help a new mission worship the Lord in reverence and with appropriate celebration of the liturgy of the prayer book.

Alternatively, parishes may provide ten copies of the 1940 Hymnal for the same amount of $200. Or, for a total gift of $400, the good will and Christian charity of parishioners may supply a mission with both prayer books and hymnals.

If you or your parish would like to support a mission by providing prayer books or hymnals, please send in your contribution by check, money order, or credit/debit card. Please designate your gift for either “prayer books” or “hymnals” or both.

For every donation of $200 or more for this Advent project, the Society will provide a written report to the sponsoring parish about the receiving mission church.

The Anglican Bible and Book Society recently distributed forty copies of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer to two parishes in the United Episcopal Church of North America (UECNA). At the UECNA General Convention held in Coshocton, Ohio in late October, Father Daniel Sparks, president of the Society gave away free reference books to members of the UECNA clergy, including a new copy of the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.

Additionally, over the past few months, the Society has provided more than two dozen used and new vestments to clergy of the UECNA and the Anglican Catholic Church (ACC).

The Society is accepting donations of altar goods such as crosses/crucifixes, candlesticks, vases, fair linens, communion linens, and similar items for use on or around the altar. Your donated items will be supplied to missions that have requested assistance with these materials.

If your parish is purchasing new items, please consider donating your old serviceable items to the Society so that they may continue to be used for sacred purposes. Individuals may also donate and will receive contribution receipts.

To offer your items for donation, please call or email the Society today.