Conference on Aging To Bridge Generations
Episcopal News Service. December 12, 1978 [78353]
Isabel Eaumgartner, Editor
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In your family and in your church family, how are older members situatedIn your community, what is the outlook of oldeAnd what ways can Christians devise to deal more helpfully with that most natural human process, the process of aging?r people? and regarded?
Clues to answers to these and related questions will be sought here Feb. 19-21 at a nationwide ecumenical conference on Aging and the Family: Today's Opportunity for the Church.
The Conference hopes to gain information, to plan for expanded ministries among older people, and to stimulate back-home response to needs of the aging.
While the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee and the Episcopal Society for Ministry on Aging (ESMA) are key sponsors for the event, lay people and clergy of all churches and of all ages will participate. Workshop topics range from intergenerational communication to second careers for the retired to hospice care for people with life-threatening illnesses.
Three people of special competence and of national reputation in this field will make addresses:
- The Rev. Herbert Lazenby, executive director of San Diego's Episcopal Community Service
- Virginia Seminary professor emeritus Mrs. Marion Kelleran who heads the worldwide Anglican Consultative Council
- and the Rev. Dr. Elbert Cole
Methodist clergyman who founded and now heads The Shepherd's Center in Kansas City, Mo.
At the conference site, the Downtown Sheraton, 100 rooms have been reserved. Partial scholarship aid for one person from each of the 93 Episcopal dioceses will be available from ESMA, Rural Route #1, Box 23, Milford, NJ 08848; diocesan bishops will allocate this aid.
Other conference information can be secured now from the Rev. Dr. Edward L. Landers who directs the coordinating agency, Urban and Regional Ministry, 900 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn. 37203.