Church School Missionary Offering to Support Intercultural Encounter
Diocesan Press Service. January 8, 1968 [61-4]
The 1968 Church School Missionary Offering, if not contributed to a diocesan objective, will go to support projects specifically chosen to provide encounter between people, across lines of culture, faith and nation, as suggested by this year's study theme, "Christ and the Faiths of Men."
Typical of projects chosen are the International Christian Youth Exchange; the International Fellowship Program of Brent House, Chicago; and the Religious Cultural Institute in Hawaii. ICYE provides young people, 16 to 18 years old, with the opportunity of living for a year in another country, living with a family, attending school and participating in the life of parish and community. It brings foreign students to America and sends American students abroad. The International Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Episcopal Church Council at the University of Chicago, is a residential fellowship program in graduate studies. It seeks to bring together small groups of Anglican scholars from outside the United States to help them pursue their own studies and to explore with them the implications of intercultural encounter as a basis for lay ministry. The Hawaii based Religious Cultural Institute is part of the East-West Center where scholars from many Pacific lands are pursuing professional and political studies. It will add a religious dimension to these studies and encourage discussion and research between Christian Churches and non-Christian religions of the East.
As in the past, offering boxes are available through the Seabury Press, but promotion is limited to the supportive material provided in the 1968 Mission Study materials.