1938-03-01 00:00:00

Committee for German Refugees Established

1938-03-01 00:00:00

Henry St. George Tucker Takes Office as the 19th Presiding Bishop

"When we think there was no room at the inn for him who came to minister to man's pain and suffering, then surely we do not wish to deny the suffering millions of mankind today the ministry, which only the church can give. "

1939-09-01 00:00:00

World War II Begins

1940-03-01 00:00:00

Presiding Bishop’s Fund for World Relief (The PB Fund) Established

1940-06-09 16:02:04

PB Fund Expands

1943-03-01 00:00:00

PB Fund Approved to Make Appeals in Own Name

1945-09-02 00:00:00

World War II Ends

1946-03-01 00:00:00

Henry Knox Sherrill Takes Office as the 20th Presiding Bishop

"The hungry have ben fed; the naked have been clothed; the sick have been healed; prisoners have been visited; the homeless have been resettled, and the Church of Christ has been strengthened."

1946-04-01 00:00:00

Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill champions the PB Fund

1951-03-01 00:00:00

Hurricane Charlie

1952-03-01 00:00:00

Disaster Response

1952-07-01 00:00:00

Kern County Earthquake

1953-07-26 00:00:00

The Cuban Revolution Begins

1956-04-01 00:00:00

Special Appeal for Refugees

1956-10-23 00:00:00

Hungarian Revolution

1958-03-01 00:00:00

Arthur C. Lichtenberger Takes Office as the 21st Presiding Bishop

"Each of us is involved in the struggle for racial justice, some by the circumstances of conflict in which they live; others less directly but nonetheless actively; all by our prayers, our citizenship and our giving. For it is a mark of our freedom already given in Christ Jesus to share in the reconciliation of men in our nation."

1960-03-01 00:00:00

Emphasis on Rehabilitation and Development Work

1961-03-01 00:00:00

Promoting the PB Fund

1965-01-01 00:00:00

John E. Hines Takes Office as the 22nd Presiding Bishop

"Against even the worst of possibilities, must be set the inescapable obligation of Christians, that the Body of Christ must be prepared to offer itself up for the sake of the healing and the solidarity of the whole human family, whatever its religious or racial identities. Especially must the Body of Christ risk its own life in bearing and sharing the burdens of those who are being exploited, humiliated, and disinherited!"

1965-03-01 00:00:00

Presiding Bishop Hines on Birth Control, Hunger and Poverty

1965-03-01 00:00:00

The Cuban Exodus

1966-03-01 00:00:00

Presiding Bishop Hines Asks for Support

"Pilot birth control clinics are currently being sponsored in places both overseas and inside the United States by our Church, I am requesting that the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief double the funds made available for this program in their immediate years ahead."

1967-07-01 00:00:00

Thousands Starve in Biafra

1967-07-01 00:00:00

Reaching Out on Behalf of Biafran Refugees

1970-03-01 00:00:00

The First Authorized Women Members Join the House of Deputies

1973-03-01 00:00:00

Warnecke Report Sets Vision

1974-03-01 00:00:00

John Maury Allin Takes Office as the 23rd Presiding Bishop

"Remember the boy with five barley loaves and two fishes –and, five-thousand people? No matter how large the crowd, no matter how small the resources seem, when each one of us brings them to the Lord, they always seem to multiply. The miracle today may be that when two or three of us get together, add up our talents, and add them together in the Lord's Name, they become the miracle of feeding. 'How many loaves have you?'"

1974-03-01 00:00:00

Alleviating Hunger

1974-03-01 00:00:00

Program for Spiritual and Economic Recovery in El Salvador Launched

1974-03-01 00:00:00

Eleven Women Presented for Ordination in Philadelphia

1975-03-01 00:00:00

Refugee Crisis in Southeast Asia

1976-03-01 00:00:00

Schott Report Recommends Name Change

1976-03-01 00:00:00

National Hunger Officer is Appointed

1976-03-01 00:00:00

General Convention Supports Economic Protest of Apartheid

1976-03-01 00:00:00

General Convention Approves the Ordination of Women

1978-01-01 00:00:00

Refugees Flee Vietnam

1978-03-01 00:00:00

PB Fund Becomes an Independent Private Volunteer Organization

1978-03-01 00:00:00

Refugee Crisis in Uganda

1978-08-01 00:00:00

Presiding Bishop Allin Responds to Ugandan Crisis

1979-03-01 00:00:00

Creation of Joint Commission on Peace

1979-03-01 00:00:00

Resettlement of Refugees from Southeast Asia

1979-03-01 00:00:00

Three Major Refugee Crises

1979-06-01 00:00:00

PB Fund Responds to Refugee Crisis in Uganda

1979-06-01 00:00:00

PB Fund Aids Refugees

1980-03-01 00:00:00

Major Response to Disasters and Famine

1982-03-01 00:00:00

General Convention Officially Commends the Brandt Report

1983-01-01 00:00:00

Famine in Ethiopia

1983-03-01 00:00:00

Ethiopian Famine Appeal

1983-03-01 00:00:00

Second Sudanese Civil War

1983-06-01 00:00:00

Sudan Project Assists Refugees