St. Matthew's Endowment Board Grants | St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Fairbanks

Supporting Worship, Ministry, and Mission Outreach

Applications due April 15, 2024

The St. Matthew’s Endowment Fund was established to support worship, ministry, and the outreach mission of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church. Each year the Endowment Board distributes grants from income generated by the fund as interest and cash dividends. Grants cannot support normal operation costs of the church but may be used for special projects and to begin new programs or initiatives. Applicants do not need to be members of St. Matthew’s but the purpose of the grant must further one or more of the goals of the fund.

In past years grants have supported programs to provide food and other items to those in need, ministry in Interior Alaska churches and communities, theological and ministry training and workshops, etc.

Endowment Fund Grants are due April 15 and recipients are announced at the Pentecost Service (late May/early June). If you send your application by USPS please allow sufficient time for it to arrive before the deadline. If you choose to drop off your application packet at the Church, please call first to be sure someone will be available to receive it.

Application instructions are available by clicking the button below.

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If you would like to donate to the Endowment Board you can click the button below.

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St. Matthew’s has been part of the life of Fairbanks since 1904, and is housed in a historic log building, near downtown Fairbanks, just across from the Chena River.

We offer a Holy space to rest for a bit and engage with our diverse congregation, worshiping in the Episcopal tradition.

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What to Expect What is the Episcopal Church

During the summer months we hope to be doing Mass on the Grass as long as the weather cooperates. When the weather is not so great we will go inside the Church with. Our beautiful building is old and has no air ventilation, therefore all indoor services at this time will require masks to be worn.

When we are inside for worship we are live-stream our services. Please join in our worship opportunities.

Love God, Love Your Neighbor...Practice Kindness, it's contagious... and... wash your hands. We will return to our regular worship when it is safe to do so.

Online Worship

We are grateful, at St. Matthew’s, to have parishioners who speak languages other than English.

Some of our Indigenous members have volunteered through the years to lead the Lord’s Prayer or the Nicene Creed, for example, in the language of their hearts – perhaps the first language they learned as babies…the language spoken in their homes…

We invite parishioners to pray in the ‘language of their hearts’ – which may be English, or Koyukon, or Gwich’in, or French, or Spanish, or... Hearing the familiar words prayed in a language other than our own, simultaneously, brings a sense of fullness, that enhances our worship.

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THANK YOU to all who continue to support the life and ministries of St. Matthew's. With your generosity, we are able to continue our ministries of, among others, offering cold-weather gear to those who need, offer food for the hungry, upgrade our ability to offer live-streamed services, and offer support and 'connection to many in Fairbanks and beyond!

Stewardship is how we nurture St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and our worshiping community. It is how we carry forward a faith community that was given to us by those who came before, and that we are responsible for handing off to future generations. Click the button below to read the 2022 Stewardship Letter or you can simply click the pledge now button.

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