Lenten alms 2026: Gifts for life
Episcopal Relief & development
This year our Lenten Alms will be donated
to Episcopal Relief & Development (ERD). ERD established in 1940, works in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East, to provide humanitarian assistance. Since 2000 ERD emphasizes its disaster relief work, including in the USA and programmatic focus on integrated community development; reaching more than 2.3 million people directly through their programs.
This program approach is based on an integrated model that addresses poverty, hunger, disaster, and disease. Working with Anglican and ecumenical partners, ERD collaborates with local communities, around the world, as they find solutions to help people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. This approach is rooted in working with communities over time to leverage their own resources and expertise for sustainable growth.
Gifts for Life in Action
With every Gifts for Life purchase, you help facilitate healthier, more fulfilling lives for those in communities struggling with poverty, hunger and disease. See your Gifts for Life at work in the lives of people across the globe. Click on the link below to see impact stories.
GIFTS FOR LIFE - OUR LENTEN GOAL
Help us build a life-changing gift to sustain communities in need around the world; providing milk, eggs, cheese, fruit for nutrition and income plus clean water to prevent the spread of illness and disease.
GOAT Give sustainability — as goats are hardy, reproduce quickly and can be raised in many climates to produce staple items such as milk, cheese and manure for farming. ($80 per goat)
COW With a milk-producing cow, a family has a steady supply of nourishment and can sell surplus milk to better provide for themselves. ($65 per share, $630 per cow)
FLOCK OF CHICKENS Help train families and community groups to raise poultry and sell surplus stock and eggs in the marketplace. ($25 per Share, $135 per flock)
PIG Offer families financial security and access to food by training them to raise and sell pigs, which reproduce quickly and are ready for market in just six months. ($20 per share, $100 per pig)
GIFTS FOR LIFE
Update as of March 8th 2026:
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GIFTS FOR LIFE
Goat
Give the gift of sustainability with goats, which are hardy, reproduce quickly and can be raised in many climates to produce staple items such as milk and cheese, and provide manure for farming.
$80 (for one goat)
GIFTS FOR LIFE
Flock of Chickens
Animals are often at the center of investment and income generation. Empower families to make their own financial choices with a flock of chickens to raise additional poultry and sell surplus stock and eggs in the marketplace.
$25 (for a share)
GIFTS FOR LIFE
Beehives
Bees pollinate field crops, which leads to increased food security and helps provide their keepers with a reliable source of income.
$35 (for one hive)
Pig
Offer families financial security and access to food by training them to raise and sell pigs, which reproduce quickly and are ready for market in just six months.
$20 (for a share)
Cow
With a milk-producing cow, a family has a steady supply of nourishment and can sell surplus milk to better provide for themselves.
$65 (for a share)
life during lent
Take time each day to:
PRAY Lenten Meditations - 40 Days of Gratitude Lenten Journal or ERD
STUDY and reflect on the Baptismal Covenant. Learn more about the Gifts of Life Program and the needs of the poor around the world
FASTING & FEASTING Fast from eating out; Feast on making and enjoying a simple meal together
ALMSGIVING Set aside the money saved through fasting to give to Gifts for Life