Esther Cohen

As she nears retirement, Esther Cohen recounts her 20-year journey at Episcopal Relief & Development, highlighting the organization’s evolution from a small team to a global force, emphasizing gratitude for the collective vision and efforts that enabled its growth and impact.

Esther brought out her very first cookbook and shares some special family memories. Warning: you may get the urge to bake a whole bunch of cookies!

In this blog, Esther Cohen shares her feelings about time speeding by and reflects on the growth of Episcopal Relief & Development.

  It was the fourth Sunday in Advent, and our Christian Education team wanted to do something a little “different” for the children’s sermon.  After all, the children were restless, Christmas was just around the corner, and it certainly seemed like a good opportunity

I don’t have too many memories of Advent from my childhood (the sense of waiting and preparation that I recall as a child came from the more secular concerns about new toys and a holiday meal!) but we did have a crèche, and it was put out in the living room with great ceremony every