Ministry for Persons with AIDS
The MS Episcopal AIDS Committee provides emergency services, counseling and prevention education. That is all funded by our service funds, through Hearts Against AIDS and donations.
We take a lot of patients and caregivers to the Province IV HIV Retreat at Kanuga every year. We have grown from one car making the trip to a big busload! We use our administrative budget to pay for the bus and try to raise money for scholarships for patients.
We desperately need scholarship money. The registration is $175, and covers all meals, room and board for the three days. Many of our patients live on disability and can't afford all their own expenses. Each year many of them have never been out of the state before!
We had the biggest group ever last year and have more applications this year than last!