The Church Army Society, Inc. Is Organized
Diocesan Press Service. October 20, 1975 [75364]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Successor to the evangelistic work of The Church Army in the U.S.A. is The Church Army Society, Inc. (Maryland). This is the organization of men and women who have been commissioned Evangelists by the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and who work in various aspects of church and missionary efforts in the United States.
The training activities formerly carried forward by The Church Army in the U.S.A. are now being operated by The National Institute for Lay Training which now trains persons for the mission and ministry of the laity in the church of their choice, rather than for the Episcopal Church only.
The chairman of the Board of The Church Army Society, Inc., is Sister Margaret Hawk, C.A., of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The president is Captain William Paddock, C.A., of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Society's office is at 815 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017.
The Society will continue all the field activities of The Church Army including placement services. Workers are available for full time or short term work in various specialties. There are more than 60 men and women who are members of The Church Army Society. They are trained in evangelism, commissioned after experience in the field, and they work where called in numerous aspects of the ministry of the Church.
The Church Army was organized in London, England, in 1883 by the Rev. E. Wilson Carlile and has branches throughout the Anglican Communion. There have been Church Army workers in the United States since 1925.