April 16, 2025

In light of recent tragic events in Gaza and, especially, the Palm Sunday attack on the al-Ahli Hospital, a ministry of our siblings in the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Jerusalem, I write to remind you to be especially generous this Good Friday to the Episcopal Church’s annual special collection in support of the life-giving ministries in the Anglican Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East (including the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem). Please click on the following links for more about the attack and this annual collection.

• Letter from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe on bombing of al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza

• American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem: PALM SUNDAY ATTACK ON AL AHLI ARAB HOSPITAL IN GAZA

• Good Friday Offering Creating new relationships in and among the Christians of the Middle East

If you can’t attend a Good Friday service in which this special collection is being taken, please make a donation online at:

or mail your check to:

The Episcopal Church

P.O. Box 958983

St. Louis, MO 63195-8983 

(noting in the Memo: “Good Friday Offering”)

Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Yours in Christ Jesus,

Bishop Bob

The Right Reverend Robert L. Fitzpatrick

Bishop Diocesan 

The Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i

The Episcopal Church in the Hawaiian Islands, Guam and Saipan