DIOCESE OF DELAWARE
The Diocese of Delaware web page: www.dioceseofdelaware.net
The Bishop of Delaware: The Rt. Rev. Wayne P. Wright
The
Diocese of Delaware delegates to GEM are:
The Rev. Canon Joseph Tucker, revmrstucker@aol.com
The Rev. Max Wolf, max@allsaintsparish-rehoboth.org
The
Diocese has a World Mission Committee.
Companion
Diocese: Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, Scotland
The Bishop, some clergy and lay parishioners have visited Scotland. The bishop hopes to visit in July when he attends the Lambeth Conference.
A Sierra Leone Mission Fund has been established to support The Rev. and Mrs. Tucker's three month mission trip to the Bo Anglican Diocese in Sierra Leone. They started a womens' and girls' learning and work center in one of the oldest parishes in the Diocese of Bo and hope to follow up with a trip in early 2009.
Missionaries from the
Diocese of Delaware:
Every year for the last 7, St. Thomas's combined EYC and ECM (University of Delaware) has sent a mission trip to South Dakota called FaithJourney. FaithJourneyers travel cross country in vans to the town of Eagle Butte on the Cheyenne River Reservation where, for 7-9 days they work with Habitat for Humanity, run a Vacation Bible School, and learn about Lakota culture. Last year, the also started an afternoon literacy program for families. The VBS curriculum was written by teacher and adjunct professor of Education Laurie Palmer (lpalmer@udel.edu) and represents a remarkable new approach to using Bible school in mission work. It brings Christianity together with Lakota religion, emphasizing the many ways in which the two dovetail. Ms. Palmer's curriculum integrates the methods of Godly Play, retelling Bible stories in Lakota terms and contexts. In the past two years, Faith Journeyers have also begun to learn to sing hymns from the Lakota Hymnal, and have learned by heart the Doxology in Lakota, two decisions which have significantly deepened the already warm relationship between Faith Journey and the people of Eagle Butte. Many of St. Thomas's kids have grown up with and in Faith Journey, returning to South Dakota 4, 5, 6, and even 7 times.
Also from the Diocese of Delaware are
 | Caroline Humphries from Immanuel Highlands who serves in the Dominican Republic under the auspices of SAMS. |
| Dan and Brenda Borger, serving in the Solomon Islands, with Wycliffe Bible Translators, supported through Immanuel Highlands. |
| Caroline Hub from Ascension Claymont, serving in South Africa with the Volunteer for Mission program of the Episcopal Church Center. |
| Ms. Audrey Walters, serving in Belgium with the Young Adult Service Corps of the Episcopal Church Center. |
| Ms. Christine A Housel, Volunteer for Mission, SWITZERLAND |
The Constantin Mircea Dan Foundation of Romania and several parishes in the Diocese have worked together on a student exchange. Last year one student from St. James Millcreek Hundred, one from England, and one from Belgium will spend two weeks in Bucharest learning about the Foundation's charitable work and visiting persons helped by the Foundation. Two years ago two college students from Romania took part in Faith Journey and visited parishes in Delaware.
The Rev. Mark Harris has been named Canon for International Covenant Relations of the National Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John in Quezon City, the Philippines. Resident in Delaware, in this post he will be working on the development of an endowment fund for the National mission office of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. He will travel regularly to the Philippines for consultation on this work.
Missionaries to the
Diocese of Delaware:
Bishop Toto from Zanzibar made a two week preaching and teaching visit in 2003.
Several short mission trips from our Companion Diocese in 2002. Bishop Maari, Bishop of Kampala, Uganda, The Rev. Canon Ricardo Potter of the Diocese of the Dominican Republic and The Rev. Yvan Francois, priest of the Diocese of Haiti are all making short preaching and teaching visits to the Diocese in the summer and fall.