Learn About Our Community

Exhibitors

Find this year’s exhibitors on the plaza at Grace Cathedral next to check in and your breakfast/lunch.

The Diocese of California

DioCal will be on the plaza with this year’s swag and helpful handouts and flyers with resources for you to use! 

La Comisión Hispana/Latina

La Comisión Hispana/Latina desarrolla y celebra la comunidad entre la gente Episcopal Hispana/Latina en la Diócesis de California, apoyando el liderazgo y facilitando la comunicación.

Y en las palabras del Credo Hispano de Justo González, “…porque creemos, nos comprometemos a creer por los que no creen, a amar por los que no aman, a soñar por los que no sueñan hasta que lo que esperamos se torne realidad.”

Trans + Non-Binary Working Group

The Trans + Non-Binary Working Group is a group of lay and ordained members of the Diocese of California working together through advocacy, liturgy, to improve the lives of the transgender, non-binary, and Two Spirit people in communities. In this time of heightened violence and marginalization toward gender nonconforming people, we strive to disrupt anti-trans rhetoric and theology in this institution, the Diocese of California.

Diocesan Commission on Peace, Justice and Hunger

The Peace, Justice and Hunger Commission will have materials on the church’s support for refugees and on other social justice issues.

SpiritCare Ministry to Seniors

A ministry supported by Christ Church, Portola Valley and Woodside

SpiritCare Ministry to Seniors serves over 80 care communities for older adults in the San Francisco Bay Area with worship services, Holy Communion and activities.

Diocesan Disaster Preparedness & Response Committee

The Diocesan Disaster Preparedness Committee supports congregations and individuals in being prepared for potential disasters and supports building organizational and individual resiliency.

Confirm Not Conform

A confirmation program developed by members of the staff of St. John’s, Oakland

In development since the early 2000s, Confirm Not Conform is a comprehensive confirmation program that encourages youth to explore, articulate, and own their faith—through the study and practice of Scripture, sacraments, creeds, prayer, and service. Used in over 1,000 congregations all over the nation and world.

474 digital pages. Includes four folders with 22 PDFs and ten editable Word documents:

  • A full set of 15 lesson plans with detailed instructions and carefully developed content
  • A Getting Started Guide
  • A Quick Start Guide
  • Mentor/Parent/Guardian Handbook
  • Denominational Customization Guide—for Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and UCC faith traditions
  • I Commit Liturgy
  • Retreat Guide
  • I Confirm Service and Celebration Handbook
  • A range of editable Word templates for you to use, from waivers to letters to calendars

Publishers Table

Mira Lowitz

Member of St. Peter’s, Redwood City

Mira Lowittz, a member of the Stellamos Youth Chorus at St. Peter’s in Redwood City, is author of three published books in three different genres: poetry, youth fiction, and children’s literature. She is a senior at Sequoia High School in Redwood City, active in multiple choral groups including Stellamos andThe Stellas, both of which she co-founded, and the esteemed Peninsula Girls Chorus. She was an organizer of a recent choir camp organized by Stellamos to teach music theory and organize concerts with a group of indigenous children on the remote west side of Kaua’i. Mira works part-time at Ragazzi Boys Chorus. Mira is proud of her Ilokano and Jewish heritages.

Paul Fromberg

Rector of St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco

Paul Fromberg is the author of The Art of Disruption: Improvisation and the Book of Common Prayer. (New York, Seabury Books, 2021) and The Art of Transformation: Three Things Churches Do That Change Everything. (New York, Church Publishing, 2017).

Lindsey Crittenden

Member of All Saints’ in the Haight, San Francisco

Lindsey Crittenden is the author of THE WATER WILL HOLD YOU: A SKEPTIC LEARNS TO PRAY. Her short fiction have won awards and appeared in Cimarron Review, Glimmer Train, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and performed onstage and streamed live through Word for Word Performing Arts Company, The New Short Fiction Series, and Stories on Stage. Her personal essays and memoir have appeared in Best American Spiritual Writing, Image, Cimarron Review, the New York Times, Real Simple, and the Washington Post.

Church Publishing, Incorperated

CPI is providing a handout with all the books published through them from authors in the Diocese of California. The handout will also include a disocunt code if you wish to purchase their books.

The Rev. Pamela Cranston

Member of Holy Cross, Castro Valley

Ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1990, Pamela Cranston has served several San Francisco Bay area churches and hospices for the past thirty years.

Her books include: Clergy Wellness and Mutual Ministry (2000), a novel The Madonna Murders (2003), Coming To Treeline: Adirondack Poems (2005) and Searching for Nova Albion (Wipf and Stock, 2019).

She lives in Oakland, California, with her husband, Ed.

Whyte Rose & Violet, Scribes

Vocational Deacon in DioCal

Whyte Rose & Violet, Scribes is a Publisher of Fantasy, Historical, and Literary Fiction
Berkeley, California, Ellen L. Ekstrom, Founder and Author

Christopher L. Webber

Retired Episcopal Priest

Christopher L. Webber, Episcopal priest, will be selling books: biographies of abolition leaders and assorted books concerning church teaching.

Ministry & Institution Fair

Find this Ministry and Institution Fair in the Chapter house, adjacent to the plaza at Grace Cathedral.

Braid Mission

Braid Mission is a diocesan institution that makes a lasting impact in the lives of youth in foster care through a mentoring program that helps build trusted and supportive relationships. Braid volunteers work in teams to create a positive, stable environment where healing can take place. This unique team model helps provide consistency for youth and flexibility and friendship for volunteers.

Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco

Episcopal Community Services (ECS) has provided essential services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness in San Francisco since 1983, utilizing a holistic approach that addresses the multiple causes leading to homelessness. This past year, we served more than 13,000 people across four counties in the San Francisco Bay Area, guided by our mission to help homeless and very low-income people every day and every night obtain the housing, jobs, shelter, and essential services each person needs to prevent and end homelessness.

School for Deacons

Learn how we form Deacons for the Diocese of California through affordable, innovative programs that form deacons proficient in bringing the needs, hopes, and concerns of the world to the Church and in showing the Church how to serve the world.

The Bishop’s Ranch

The Bishop’s Ranch is a place of rare beauty where hospitality nourishes spirit, body, and mind. We host retreats, conferences, summer camps, and programs for groups and individuals from the Diocese of California, other churches, and nonprofit organizations. With 40 guest rooms, 8 meeting spaces, a dining hall for 120, and 365 acres of Ranch Lands, we welcome nearly 6,000 guests each year.

Episcopal Impact Fund

Episcopal Impact Fund delivers trust-based philanthropy to expand access to dignified housing and break the cycle of poverty for families, youth, and young adults in the Bay Area. Through grantmaking, advocacy, volunteer initiatives, and faith-based affordable housing development, we’re working toward a Bay Area where every person has the resources and opportunities they need to thrive.To learn more and join our community, please visit https://www.episcopalimpact.org/.

St. Dorothy’s Rest Camp and Retreat Center

Since 1901, St Dorothy’s has served as an institution of the Diocese of California to provide “a place of rest” in a redwood forest in Sonoma County. We operate year-round as a camp and retreat center, and cater to all kinds of community-centered groups whose mission aligns with ours: church groups, recovery communities, artists and writers groups, families, civic and volunteer organizations all make up the patchwork quilt of faith, hope, love, and luck that is the community of St Dorothy’s.

At the heart of our mission is Summer Camp, and especially camp for children whose lives have been impacted by illness or the social diseases of poverty and discrimination. We partner with Bay Area children’s hospitals and healthcare organizations to offer unique camps for children living with major organ transplant; and we partner with community organizations like YES and Braid Mission to make room in all our Summer camps for children who might otherwise never attend camp.

Ecumenical House

Ecumenical House is a progressive, ecumenical Christian Ministry inspiring God’s love, compassion, and justice at San Francisco State and City College of San

Stanford Canterbury

Come visit the Stanford Canterbury booth to show your love for campus ministry!