Church Army Society Plans Recruiting Drive
Episcopal News Service. May 31, 1979 [79179]
NEW YORK -- The Church Army Society will launch a major recruiting drive at the Episcopal Church's 1979 General Convention this fall in Denver.
Society members gave final approval for the drive -- which has been in preparation for some months -- at their annual meeting here in late May. Part of the plans include accepting applicants trained in diocesan lay training institutes and similar programs.
The Society also began planning to mark the celebration (1980) of the 50th anniversary of Church Army work in this country. A missionary team from the parent Church Army in England came to the U.S. in 1927 and began work which resulted in incorporation of an independent American society in 1930. The Society maintains strong ties with Church Army organizations throughout the world.
Throughout its history, the Society, a lay missionary unit of Anglicanism, has served in the widest variety of rural, urban and educational ministries.
The present reorganized structure of the Society was effected in 1974 at the same time as the establishment of the National Institute for Lay Training. The two organizations severed formal ties with each other earlier this year and each continues to work in accordance with its distinct purpose.
Capt. Robert Jones of Brockton, Mass. was reelected president.