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Conference on Ministry Held in Atlanta

Diocesan Press Service. June 28, 1974 [74184]

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Absalom Jones Theological Institute in Atlanta, Georgia was the scene of a Conference on the Ministry held May 17-19 and sponsored by the bishops and the Committee on Recruitment and Equal Opportunity of the Fourth Province of the Episcopal Church.

Absalom Jones Theological Institute is the Episcopal Church affiliate of the Inter-denominational Theological Center in Atlanta.

The Conference was held for men and women, 32 years of age and older, who wished to explore a delayed vocation in the ministry as worker priests, in the diaconate, in the regular priesthood, the lay ministry, and other vocations.

The 41 men and women who attended are now engaged in various vocations and professions. They are workers in the national government, state and, city workers, social service agents, and others.

Fourteen of the 18 dioceses of the Fourth Province sent representatives, as did the School of Theology of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee; St. Augustine's College, Raleigh, North Carolina; the Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Absalom Jones Theological Institute.

Many of the persons at the Conference brought their families to "read, mark, and learn " what it was all about. The sessions held for wives were led by Mrs. Quinland Gordon (Myrtle) and Mrs. Michael Randolph (Joy).

The Conference was a part of the Fourth Province's program of outreach to recruit minority persons for the ministry.

The Conference staff and leaders were: the Very Rev. Quinland Gordon; the Rev. Dr. Robert A. Bennett; the Rev. Dr. John M. Gessell; the Rev. Canon Henry Grant; the Rev. Canon Nelson W. Pinder; the Rev. Ronald Fox; the Rev. Michael P. G. C. Randolph; Mr. Perry Barrington, Jr.; Mr. William Rucker. The Rev. Edward Rodman, Mrs. Randolph and Mrs. Gordon were consultants.