Associated Parishes Annual Meeting
Diocesan Press Service. June 11, 1973 [73150-A]
The Council of the Associated Parishes, Inc. held its annual meeting in Bardstown, Kentucky, May 11-14. The Associated Parishes, or "AP"', is a group including about two thousand associate members, with a Council of thirty clergy and lay persons from all over the United States and Southern Canada.
The Councils engaged in a theological and historical study of the ordained ministry led by the Rev. David Babin, Professor of Pastoral Theology at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, and the Rev. H. Boone Porter, Executive Director of Roanridge, and took part, with much enthusiasm in a practical discussion of the perpetual diaconate and the non-stipendiary priesthood under the leadership of the Rev. Kenneth D. Thompson, well-known self-supporting clergyman in the Diocese of Kentucky.
The Council elected Dr. Porter to its presidency for the next two years. Other new officers are: Vice President, the Rev. William A. Wendt of Washington, D. C., Secretary, the Rev. Lawrence H. Rouillard of Durham, New Hampshire; and additional Executive Committee member, Dr. Jean Smelker of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Council strongly reaffirmed its commitment to the theological and practical revitalization of worship within the Church. AP calls upon its members, and upon all Churchmen, to take seriously the significance of worship and to support the continuation of trial use, as provided by Canon Law, for the next triennium.