Seminary of the Southwest Master in Divinity senior, Tina Francis, was awarded an Episcopal Evangelism Society (EES) Grant for the Spring 2025 grant cycle. A total of six grants were awarded for this cycle. “This spring, we received an overwhelming number of applications from across the Episcopal Church,” EES shared. “After prayerful discernment, our board made the difficult decision to fund the most compelling and clearly evangelistic proposals – those that offer innovation, clarity of vision, and deep resonance with the mission of sharing the Good News of Jesus.”
Tina’s project is titled “Faces of Faith” and she hopes to capture the “diversity of Episcopal life in Texas through photography and narrative.” Tina intends to use social media, workshops, and exhibits to share her work and invite others to join in and create community. “For Tina, evangelism is a ministry of storytelling – honoring the sacred in ordinary people and creating spaces where others feel seen, valued, and welcomed into the Church,” shared EES.
Since 2007, EES has awarded Seminary of the Southwest students, faculty, and staff 23 grants. Projects have ranged from multicultural ministry, global partnerships and mission trips, pastoral care for veterans, video game chaplaincy, and agrarian ministries. You can read more about past Southwest EES grant recipients and their projects on the EES archives webpage.
Francis was recently selected as a member of the 2026 cohort of the Trinity Leadership Fellows program. The full announcement about that honor can be found here.