Education Coordinators Review Programs
Episcopal News Service. April 23, 1981 [81136]
New York -- Christian education coordinators from the nine Episcopal Church provinces met here recently for a three-day program that brought them into close contact with the Church Center Education for Mission and Ministry staff.
Bishop Elliott Sorge, executive for that unit, and nearly every member of the staff that supports work in evangelism, lay ministry, youth and college work spent an afternoon with the Regional Religious Education Coordinators to review the varied networks and integrate education into all facets of the unit's work. The coordinators serve as part time field staff for national Christian education program, working with dioceses and provinces to develop resources. There are two coordinators for each province.
Presiding Bishop John M. Allin joined the group briefly to receive a copy of Making Sense of Things, a 1981 Seabury Press book exploring a theology of Christian education. The Rev. David Perry, Christian education staff officer, edited the book and Allin expressed appreciation for their work and for the authors of the volume.
In related activities, the coordinators:
- reviewed plans for the 1981-82 Church School Missionary Offering which will focus on children in the city;
- studied a draft of a paper on adult education and plans for work in this area for the next year;
- learned that the Christian education office will publish resources on Hispanic Christian Education and a survey of diocesan human sexuality educational programs in May.