Find a Church
Click here to find an Episcopal Church in New Hampshire on the Episcopal Asset Map. Clergy and lay leaders: Make what’s happening at your church more accessible by keeping your Asset Map page updated. Learn how here.
Additional Resources
These resources are meant to enhance the important work being done in our parishes, our communities and New Hampshire.
Addiction and Recovery
The Episcopal Church of NH's Recovery Ministry group has compiled a resource list for clergy, lay leaders and our wider community who may need addiction, treatment and recovery resources.
Advent Resources
Advent Resources for congregations, organizations, and families.
Communications
Find information about our newsletters, communications office hours, web-hosting program, and more guidelines and resources for church communications.
COVID-19 Updates and Resources
Cycles of Prayer
The Anglican and Diocesan Cycles of Prayer.
Diocesan Grant and Loan Programs
The councils, committees, and commissions of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire offer a number of financial resources to help congregations and new ministries grow and thrive in faith and love. Here is a convenient listing of current grant and loan programs.
Disaster Preparedness and Security
Churches throughout the diocese are encouraged to prepare for the possibility of a disaster in your community or at your place of worship.
Easter Resources
Epiphany Resources for Congregations and Individuals
Episcopal Hospital Chaplaincy of NH/VT
The Episcopal Hospital Chaplaincy (EHC) at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, New Hampshire is a partnership ministry of The Episcopal Church in New Hampshire and Vermont. The mission of the Chaplaincy is to “provide the services of an Episcopal Chaplain to hospitalized patients and their families, to provide the presence of The Episcopal Church, and to increase public awareness of the importance and usefulness of chaplaincy work.” Read more about this ministry.
Lent Resources
Mission Resources
A committee of Diocesan Council, Mission Resources administers grants to congregations actively growing their mission, funded directly from the annual Diocesan budget.
Mutual Ministry Review
Planning for ministry, doing the work, and reviewing or reflecting on what we have done constitutes the mutual ministry cycle. This introduction to the guide describes the cycle, connects it to Scripture, and provides an overview of crucial steps for its implementation. The balance of the guide focuses on the review aspect of the cycle, because it has been the source of so much conflict and lost opportunity. To learn more, the Living into our Ministries by Vital Practices is a guide and workbook.
Our Kids Youth Commission
Guided by Robert Putnam's findings in his book Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, the Our Kids Commission of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire is committed to helping our congregations step into the "Opportunity Gap" for low-income and vulnerable children and their families in the state of New Hampshire. The Bishop’s “charge” to the Commission is “to find and serve the Child Jesus in our communities by helping congregations move away from asking “how can we get more young people from our community in the doors of our church?” to “how can we go out the doors of our church to serve the needs of young people in our communities?” His goal is to create an easier “on ramp” for committed people in our churches to serve all our children as tutors, mentors, and advocates.
Grants are available to congregations to develop, expand, or explore programs that will address the Opportunity Gap.
Click here to download the Our Kids Grant Application
Safe Church
The Safe Church Program of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire has three major components – policies, training, and background checks. The Episcopal Church of New Hampshire adopted the Model Policies of the Episcopal Church in 2019. Church leaders are responsible for knowing and following these policies.
School for Ministry
The school is strongly committed to local formation and three core principles: Common Prayer, Life in Community, and Context and Continuity in Ministry. Partnering with the Iona Collaborative, a cooperative project directed by the Seminary of the Southwest, the School for Ministry’s teaching model offers blended online and local on site education and training. Year-long and semester-long courses meet for monthly study weekends during the academic year, either online or on site, as circumstances require. Weekly online gatherings for conversation, community-building, and worship complement and enrich students’ coursework.
Spiritual Direction
A Spiritual Director is someone who is trained in listening and serves as a trusted companion for your spiritual journey. There are several centers for spiritual direction associated with the Episcopal Church in New England at which one can be connected with a spiritual director, or train to be a spiritual director:
Spiritual Direction in New England (Province I) – resources for connecting with spiritual directors in Province I of the Episcopal Church
Adelynrood - a retreat and conference center run by the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross – offering women and men conferences, workshops and individual and group retreats.
Society of St. John the Evangelist (SSJE) –An Episcopal monastic community offering workshops, retreats, direction, internships, and formation materials like “Brother Give us A Word” and “Meeting Jesus.”
Bethany House of Prayer – a retreat and spiritual direction center run by the Sisterhood of St. Anne.
Spiritual Direction International – an inter-faith resource for information about spiritual direction.
Vestry Resource Guide
The Vestry Resource Guide, produced by Forward Movement and the Episcopal Church Foundation, can be found here or it can be purchased in print copy. Vital Practices also publishes the Vestry Papers, a regularly published resource for Vestry members, including topics related to training, stewardship, finance and service.
Vital Practices
The Episcopal Church Foundation's Vital Practices offers vestry members, and other people of faith, resources and tools to respond to the changing needs of the Church. Vital Practices explores new ways of supporting congregations by building online communities of Episcopalians who share their stories, experiences, and best practices; who learn from one another; and who discover support to help sustain their leadership and their ministries. It includes articles by experts and peers, blogs for sharing ideas about faith and leadership, stories about real life lessons of change and leadership, tools for stewardship and communications, and opportunities to share your stories and examples.
Tending the Vine Graphic Identity
For more information on the use of the diocesan visual identity, please contact the communications department.