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The Church Army Conducts Annual Meeting

Diocesan Press Service. February 24, 1970 [84-5]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Church Army in the United States began 1970 with the election of a new board of trustees, which included for the first time several officers, as well as the commissioning of a new Captain and Sister.

The Church Army, a missionary agency of the Episcopal Church in evangelistic, pastoral, social service and educational work throughout the United States, faced an acute financial and organizational crisis during 1969, but is now taking concrete steps to improve its situation. Both facts were brought out during the Annual Meeting in New York City on January 27 by Mr. Lorraine F. Pitman of Westport, Conn., out-going president.

Among the steps being considered, and reported on at the annual meeting, are a larger voice for the officers (Captains and Sisters) in the affairs of the Church Army, closer cooperation with the Church Army in other provinces of the Anglican Communion, and the re-institution of Church Army training, possibly on an ecumenical basis.

Also proposed to the Board of Trustees by the Officers of the Army was the sponsorship of a summer program for student volunteers beginning in 1971 and a longer program, similar to VISTA, for young adults. Since Church Army officers generally work in such places as inner-city ghettos, among migrant workers and on Indian reservations, there would be many opportunities for such volunteer service.

Preceding the annual business meeting two new officers, Joseph Stevenson of Tacoma, Wash., and Margaret Ann Albert of Jersey City, N.J., were commissioned by the Rt. Rev. John E. Hines, Presiding Bishop, as "Evangelists. " They were then commissioned by the senior officer present, Captain William Avery of White Earth, Minn., as Captain and Sister respectively, within the Church Army.

The commissioning took place during a Choral Eucharist in the Chapel of Christ the Lord at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City, at which the Rt. Rev. Arnold M. Lewis was chief celebrant.

Newly elected Officers of the Board of Trustees include the Rev. Dr. H. Boone Porter, professor at General Theological Seminary, New York City, President; J. Henry Wendt of Montclair, N.J., and Mrs. Thomas J. Collings of Sea Cliff, N.Y., Vice Presidents; Sister Brooke Bushong, C.A., of Brooklyn, Secretary; and Captain Howard Galley, C.A., Treasurer. Captain Galley also serves as Administrator of the National Office of the Church Army at 815 Second Avenue, New York, N. Y.