The story of the Margaret Coffin Prayer Book Society, a very Bostonian institution, is itself very Bostonian. Margaret Coffin was a devoted Episcopal woman of Boston in the early 19th century. As a favorite personal good works project, she liked to give away prayer books to people who could not afford them. Her project is carried on today by the group that bears her name.

Margaret Coffin’s legacy is a “mustard seed” story as well as a Boston curiosity. It is mission strategy of the most personal kind. Her modest effort to promote wider appreciation and circulation of the prayer book has continued to grow and bear fruit worldwide through the 19th and 20th centuries and now into the 21st.

For more information, contact:
The Rev. Marshall Hunt, president
PO Box 1205
East Harwich, MA 02645-6205

The Rev. Richard Loring, clerk
114 Badger Terrace
Bedford, MA 01730