Allin Fellowships To Be Inaugurated
Episcopal News Service. December 4, 1986 [86263]
ST. LOUIS (DPS, Dec. 4) -- The inauguration of the Allin Fellowships, in honor of former Presiding Bishop John M. Allin, has been announced by the Allin Fellowship Committee, the Rt. Rev. William A. Jones, Jr., Bishop of Missouri, chairman.
The fellowships will provide "an opportunity for intercultural and interconfessional encounter and study abroad" for four Episcopal Church leaders annually. Recipients will attend the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland, for either a two-week course or a graduate-level course appropriate for seminary professors.
Allin Fellows selected each year will include a newly consecrated bishop, a seminary professor, an experienced priest and a seminarian. The Fellowships cover travel expenses, tuition and room and board at the Institute. Fellows will be asked to report their learnings first to the Fellowship Board and then to their constituents. The effectiveness of the Fellowships will be measured by the greater participation of the Episcopal Church beyond the Anglican Communion, Fellowship committee members stressed.
The rationale of the Fellowships is that problems and challenges faced by the Church can no longer be viewed as isolated local issues. The global community created by God has social, economic, political, technological, commercial and religious interconnections. Leaders in the Episcopal Church need to see this interconnection of the "household of faith" in the world by working, living, studying and praying with church leaders from beyond the Anglican Communion.
The deadline for applications is Jan. 15, with awards to be announced by March 1, 1987. Application forms may be requested from the Allin Fellowship Committee, Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, 1210 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO, 63103.
Members of the committee, in addition to Jones, are the Very Rev. James C. Fenhagen, Dean of General Seminary; the Rev. Preston T. Kelsey, executive director, Board for Theological Education; and Judy Bartholomay, member of the Boards of Directors, Episcopal Church Foundation and the Ecumenical Institute.