The Children's Mission of St. Paul and St. James

Every year since 2001, at the annual LIGHT AND PEACE AWARDS DINNER, we have honored people in the community who have made a difference in the lives of children, by presenting the Light and Peace Award for service to children, and the Children’s Mission Volunteer of the Year Award. .

2001
The Right Reverend Clarence Coleridge, retired Bishop of Connecticut and founder of the Bishop's Fund for Children, and Euna Coleridge, lifelong advocate for children and youth.
Volunteer of the year: Sally Fleming.

2002
Edward Zigler, Yale Child Study Center, founder of Head Start.
Volunteer of the year: Lee Howard.

2003
The Rev. Bonita Grubbs, Executive Director of Christian Community Action.
Volunteer of the year: Josh Brown.

2004
The Right Reverend Arthur Walmsley, retired Bishop of Connecticut, lifelong advocate for children and youth, former rector of St. Paul's.
Volunteer of the year: Elizabeth Elston.

2005
Susan Hulsman Bingham, founder and director of the Children's and Liturgical Opera of Connecticut.
Volunteer of the year: Delta Sigma Alpha Fraternity, University of New Haven.

2006
Frank Cochran, for his pro bono advocacy for the Children's Mission in its dispute with the Department of Public Health.
Volunteer of the year: Nanci Henchcliffe (Beulah Enterprises).

Children's Mission Steering Committee

The Children's Mission Steering Committee is made up of local community leaders and advocates for children.

The Rev. Barbara Cheney, Rector of St. Paul & St. James, serves ex officio.
Jane Lee is our Treasurer.
Other members are:
Susan Amussen
Tess Beck
Alicia Brooks
Sally Fleming
The Rev. Kathryn Greene-McCreight
Nanci Henchcliffe
Tom Sharp
The Rev. Betsy Starbuck
Jane Splawn

Children's Mission Advisory Board

Enola Aird

Robert W. Reeder III (Partner, Sullivan and Cromwell)

The Rev. Bruce Shipman

The Rt. Rev. Arthur Walmsley (Retired Bishop of Connecticut, Light and Peace Award recipient, 2004)

Beulah Enterprises is an online store featuring toys for imaginative spiritual play. As Executive Director Nanci Henchcliffe says, "Beulah is a Christian toy store, but it is also an alternative toy store. Nothing that needs batteries. Nothing plastic." There are special sections for baptism and baby gifts; toys for Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter; our very own wooden playsets featuring priest, people, and altar … the Good Shepherd … Jesus, disciples, and the holy women; as well as a wonderful selection of books, music, and gifts; and BEULAH LAND, Gretchen's feltboard storytelling kits.

Profits from Beulah Enterprises support the Children's Mission.

We continue to have a relationship with St. Thomas' Day School. The school families collect books and groceries for us, and one of our children has enrolled at the school, which is eager to bring diversity to their student body.

In 1998, we established an official partnership with Trinity Episcopal Church in Newtown, CT. We offer prayers for each other, and they take a special interest in our programs, providing volunteers and financial support.

The Children's Mission of St. Paul and St. James gratefully acknowledges the generous support of many benefactors, including:

The Episcopal Diocese of Connectiut (Bishop's Fund for Children and Mission Development Fund) The Tudor Foundation, Greenwich, CT The City Missionary Association of New Haven Trinity Church, Newtown, CT

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven Trinity Church, Wall Street, NY (New Haven) Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Cheshire, CT

Episcopal Relief and Development St. John's Episcopal Church, West Hartford, CT Trinity Fund of Norwalk, CT Yale/ Berkeley Divinity School

Christ Church, Roxbury, CT The Louis Calder Foundation, New Canaan, CT The Robert S. Kaplan Foundation, New York, NY The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., White Plains, NY

St. John's Episcopal Church, Washington, CT St. Thomas's Church, Hanover, NH Christ Church, New Haven Video Imagination (North Haven)

Christ and Holy Trinity Church, Westport, CT St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Mamaroneck, CT First Church of Christ (Center Church), New Haven Christ Church, Guilford, CT

St. John's Episcopal Church, Washington, CT St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Hanover, NH Zion Episcopal Church, North Branford, CT Christ Church, Redding Ridge, CT

Christ Church, New Haven St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Madison, CT The William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, Hamden, CT ... and many other congregations and individuals near and far.

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The Episcopal Diocese of Connectiut (Bishop's Fund for Children and Mission Development Fund)	The Tudor Foundation, Greenwich, CT	The City Missionary Association of New Haven	Trinity Church, Newtown, CT
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven	Trinity Church, Wall Street, NY (New Haven)	Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven	St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Cheshire, CT
Episcopal Relief and Development	St. John's Episcopal Church, West Hartford, CT	Trinity Fund of Norwalk, CT	Yale/ Berkeley Divinity School
Christ Church, Roxbury, CT	The Louis Calder Foundation, New Canaan, CT	The Robert S. Kaplan Foundation, New York, NY	The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., White Plains, NY
St. John's Episcopal Church, Washington, CT	St. Thomas's Church, Hanover, NH	Christ Church, New Haven	Video Imagination (North Haven)
Christ and Holy Trinity Church, Westport, CT	St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Mamaroneck, CT	First Church of Christ (Center Church), New Haven	Christ Church, Guilford, CT
St. John's Episcopal Church, Washington, CT	St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, Hanover, NH	Zion Episcopal Church, North Branford, CT	Christ Church, Redding Ridge, CT
Christ Church, New Haven	St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Madison, CT	The William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, Hamden, CT	... and many other congregations and individuals near and far.