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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 

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A Quantum Leap in Healthcare Delivery 

Healthcare coordination is now simplified for members whose plans use the Anthem and Cigna networks.

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CPG Connect Fall 2024 Administrative Female

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.

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Meet Our New Trustees

Incoming board members include priests, bishops, and lay leaders with backgrounds in finance, law, and the nonprofit sector.

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Go On, Help Yourself!

An online portal makes life easier for clients of Church Insurance Companies.

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Connecting Across Continents: A Global Link

As technology has made the world seem smaller, Church Pension Group’s connection to that world has grown.

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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

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Vintage Voice: Freedom!

Reflections on what CPG means to the Rev. Bruce Lomas and his family

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From Financial Health to Emotional Well-Being, Help Is at Hand

Utilizing The Episcopal Church Medical Trust’s Employee Assistance Program

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Extraordinary Circumstances, Special Assistance

How CPG’s Fund for Special Assistance can help provide financial relief

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Bishops Crossing Borders: Enlightened, Encouraged, Enriched

Connecting through CPG’s Bishops Conference

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Digital Programming: Make Worship Planning a Breeze

A comprehensive library of liturgical and music resources

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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

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Benefits Update

New dental vendor, changing beneficiaries online, Group Medicare Advantage, and more

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Who Is the Church? Reflecting the Numbers

Fostering understanding through data

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The New Weather Paradigm: Church Insurance on Staying Prepared

Tips for combatting the increasing financial strain

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Book Look: Faith and Finances

Resources for boosting your work

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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

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Lay Resources: More Than Meets the Eye

Lesser-known offerings for retirement planning

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Enduring Peace of Mind

One-on-one retirement and beneficiary assistance—plus transforming healthcare access

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We Hear You!

Our various methods for inviting client feedback

 

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Author’s Corner: Worth It & Wonderful

Bold inspiration for Christian women

 

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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.

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Health Benefits: What’s New

We’re offering enhanced products, services, and resources.

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Church Insurance: Anticipating and Improvising

How do we help set our clients’ minds at ease when their worlds are upended?

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Creative Investing: Music to Our Ears

Our investments include everything from solar energy and carbon allowances to music royalties.

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Author’s Corner: En Español

Church Publishing is expanding our inventory of Spanish-language resources.

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Fall 2022 - Volatility, Values, and Voices

Holding Steady in Volatile Markets

Our investment strategy is both long-term and diversified.

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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.”

 

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CPG and General Convention

Each General Convention re-energizes us at CPG as we learn new ways to help the Church with its work.

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Your CPG Benefits in Action

Clergy, lay employees, and a surviving spouse reflect on making the most of healthcare benefits, financial education, and pensions.

 

 

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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.

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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.

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Checking the Gender Identity Box

To help meet the needs of nonbinary clients, CPG made a change that could spark others.

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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.

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Ready for Life’s Storms: Church Insurance Leads the Way

Our property and casualty insurance team provides assistance even before disaster strikes.

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We Heard You, Benefits Administrators!

Our new self-service My Admin Portal (MAP) helps benefits administrators save time and effort.

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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.

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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.

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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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Comments? Questions? Concerns? CPG is listening. Please reach out to us at corpcomm@cpg.org

 

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