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Spring 2025 Newsletter | In the Community: Advocacy
In this issue, you’ll read how members of our ECS-NJ Advisory Council are helping migrants protect their rights with Red Cards, a vital resource from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. You’ll also get a glimpse into the growing impact of the St. John Community Garden, where fresh food and fellowship are taking root. Each story reflects how, together, we’re building communities of care, dignity, and hope.
Keeping Up with the Latest
Thorme to Resign as ECS-NJ Executive Director
“ECS-NJ has grown from an idea into a strong and vital initiative serving God’s people and responding to human need across our diocese.”
Giving During the Holidays and Beyond
Several years ago the people of St. Raphael the Archangel in Bricktown came to an understanding of what it means to live into our baptismal vows.
Important Information on NJ FamilyCare/Medicaid Eligibility—Please Share!
By next Spring 2.3 million New Jersey residents will need to complete eligibility reviews to determine if they still quality for NJ FamilyCare/Medicaid.
Fall Grant Applications Open
All the Info You Need on How to Apply for Grants. Video: Grant Application Workshop from ECS-NJ; Fall Grant Applications Due Sept. 8
Food Insecurity & ECS-NJ
They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water. - Isaiah 49:101 in 12 households in New Jersey experienced food insecurity in 2020. ...