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Participation in Total Missionary Effort

Diocesan Press Service. August 1, 1962 [I-2]

New opportunities are constantly opening up for the Episcopal Church in the United States to participate in the total missionary effort of the Anglican Communion.

The post recent examples of this opportunity can be seen in the appointment of the Rev. and Mrs. Edwin E. Harvey to work on the United Theological College faculty in Bangalore, India. They will be working under the Church of South India. Also, the appointment of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. John A. Bailey to the faculty of St. Paul's Theological College in Limuru, Kenya, is another example. They will be working under the authority of the Church of the Province of East Africa.

The United Theological College in Bangalore is one of the key institutions for the training of Christian workers in the Church of South India. Founded in 1910, the College issues both a Bachelor of Divinity degree and is now developing a growing program for post B.D. training. The College is developing also, courses for the training of lay leaders, and it has been one of the key institutions in the Church of South India, preparing candidates in regular theological courses and special courses, in laymen's courses, and in special courses for Y.M.C.A. secretaries. Its graduates are at work all over India, Ceylon, and several other countries of Southeast Asia. Mr. Harvey served under the Methodist Church Board in India for three years before coming into the Episcopal Church. He now goes back with a knowledge of India, having completed a year at Virginia Theological Seminary and at the University of Jacksonville as the Episcopal Chaplain.

The establishment of the Church of the Province of East Africa is one of the major Anglican miracles of our decade. Composed of the Diocese of Zanzibar, Masasi, Southwest Tanganyika, Central Tanganyika, Kenya, it occupies one of the most strategic areas of any Anglican Province in the total Anglican Church. Dr. and Mrs. Bailey and family will be going to one of the important centers of theological education in that Province when they go to St. Paul's Theological College in Limuru. Since September 1959, Dr. Bailey has taught in the Department of Religion of Colorado College and has become an assistant professor. Ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church in June 1900, and a graduate of Harvard University, he goes to serve on the faculty of this inter-Anglican Seminary with high credentials.

By making these two appointments, the Overseas Department has taken another step forward in the National Council's program of expanding our participation in inter-Anglican work. Other examples of this strategy can be seen in the cooperation that the Overseas Department has entered into in the appointment of personnel and the granting of funds to such places as the International Christian University in Japan; Chung-Chi College in Hong Kong; Trinity College in Singapore; University Settlement in Bombay; Women's Christian College in Madras, India; the Diocese of Uganda in East Africa and the Diocese of Damaraland in Southwest Africa.