CPG Connect Archive
Read past issues of CPG Connect featuring resources to support your well-being and articles exploring CPG benefits and our work supporting those who serve the Church.
CPG Connect Fall 2024 - New Benefits Solutions
A Quantum Leap in Healthcare Delivery
Healthcare coordination is now simplified for members whose plans use the Anthem and Cigna networks.
Spotlight: A Real People Person
Administrator Alina Martinez, Director of People Services and Operations for the Diocese of Florida, shows us what CPG looks like from her side of the desk.
Meet Our New Trustees
Incoming board members include priests, bishops, and lay leaders with backgrounds in finance, law, and the nonprofit sector.
Go On, Help Yourself!
An online portal makes life easier for clients of Church Insurance Companies.
Connecting Across Continents: A Global Link
As technology has made the world seem smaller, Church Pension Group’s connection to that world has grown.
CPG Connect Winter 2024 - Did You Know?
Fidelity and CPG: Helping You Fund Your Future
Resources for setting and achieving your financial goals for retirement
Vintage Voice: Freedom!
Reflections on what CPG means to the Rev. Bruce Lomas and his family
From Financial Health to Emotional Well-Being, Help Is at Hand
Utilizing The Episcopal Church Medical Trust’s Employee Assistance Program
Extraordinary Circumstances, Special Assistance
How CPG’s Fund for Special Assistance can help provide financial relief
Bishops Crossing Borders: Enlightened, Encouraged, Enriched
Connecting through CPG’s Bishops Conference
Digital Programming: Make Worship Planning a Breeze
A comprehensive library of liturgical and music resources
CPG Connect Fall 2023 - Counting on Us
New Leaders
Welcoming Michael J. Hood, our Chief Investment Officer, and the Rev. Canon Arlette D. Benoit Joseph, Senior Vice President and Church Relations Officer
Benefits Update
New dental vendor, changing beneficiaries online, Group Medicare Advantage, and more
Who Is the Church? Reflecting the Numbers
Fostering understanding through data
The New Weather Paradigm: Church Insurance on Staying Prepared
Tips for combatting the increasing financial strain
Book Look: Faith and Finances
Resources for boosting your work
Spring 2023 - An Array of Resources
What Lay Employees Can Do Now
Canon Hardy on what lay employees can do to boost their financial outlook
Lay Resources: More Than Meets the Eye
Lesser-known offerings for retirement planning
Enduring Peace of Mind
One-on-one retirement and beneficiary assistance—plus transforming healthcare access
We Hear You!
Our various methods for inviting client feedback
Author’s Corner: Worth It & Wonderful
Bold inspiration for Christian women
2022 Year-End Issue - Looking Back, Moving Forward
Building on 2022
CPG leaders reflect on key ways we have worked with The Episcopal Church and consider what’s in store for next year and beyond.
Health Benefits: What’s New
We’re offering enhanced products, services, and resources.
Church Insurance: Anticipating and Improvising
How do we help set our clients’ minds at ease when their worlds are upended?
Creative Investing: Music to Our Ears
Our investments include everything from solar energy and carbon allowances to music royalties.
Author’s Corner: En Español
Church Publishing is expanding our inventory of Spanish-language resources.
Fall 2022 - Volatility, Values, and Voices
Holding Steady in Volatile Markets
Our investment strategy is both long-term and diversified.
Continuity—with Fresh Perspectives
“I’m pleased to lead trustee support for CPG in helping reduce the stress that clergy and lay employees may feel about their retirement and ongoing healthcare.”
CPG and General Convention
Each General Convention re-energizes us at CPG as we learn new ways to help the Church with its work.
Your CPG Benefits in Action
Clergy, lay employees, and a surviving spouse reflect on making the most of healthcare benefits, financial education, and pensions.
Church Publishing Author Honored at the White House
The words—and actions—of Church Publishing author Catherine Meeks, PhD, have reached all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Spring 2022
Lay Pension Parity: A Collaboration with General Convention
Parity between clergy and lay pensions is a topic on the minds of many of our clients.
Checking the Gender Identity Box
To help meet the needs of nonbinary clients, CPG made a change that could spark others.
Questions Answered: The CPF Board Zeroes In
Collaboration with the Church, pension parity, and the role of compassion in decision-making are just a few of the topics covered by three board members.
Ready for Life’s Storms: Church Insurance Leads the Way
Our property and casualty insurance team provides assistance even before disaster strikes.
We Heard You, Benefits Administrators!
Our new self-service My Admin Portal (MAP) helps benefits administrators save time and effort.
Vintage Voice
The Church Pension Fund: Putting Time on My Side
Clocks have always regulated my days: time to get kids up and to school, complete hospital rounds, see office patients, return calls, finish charts, and make evening rounds before finally heading home.
Worshipping Online: New World, New Risks
Online services allow congregations to reach people near and far, yet financial risks loom if churches fail to take precautions.
Winter 2021 – Living Our Values
Around the Church
From educational webinars for individuals to virtual conferences for administrators, our resources provide support.
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