Four Mission Ministry Staff Named
Episcopal News Service. August 5, 1982 [82180]
NEW YORK (DPS, Aug. 5) -- Four staff appointments in the Education for Mission and Ministry unit at the Episcopal Church Center have been announced by Presiding Bishop John M. Allin.
Mrs. Judith M. Carlson, who has served as an education consultant with the unit for the past year, will take the newly created position of Coordinator of Ministries with Children. Dr. Irene Jackson-Brown, program director and research associate at Howard University in Washington for the past three years, will be Program Resource Developer. The Rev. Mark Harris, Wilmington, Del., has been appointed Coordinator for Ministries with Institutions of Higher Education and the Rev. Canon John T. Docker, program director of the Diocese of Bethlehem, will be the Coordinator for Mutual Ministry Development.
Carlson will continue with the development of resources and the training of leaders for children's ministry. She holds a B.S. degree in elementary education from Ohio State University and is working toward her M.A. degree in Christian education at Princeton Theological Seminary. She has held many parish and diocesan positions in the field of Christian education. She, her husband and two children make their home in Pennington, N.J.
Jackson-Brown, in her position as Program Resource Developer, will develop, write, edit and produce educational resources for the Education for Mission and Ministry unit and for the National Mission in Church and Society unit. In addition to her work at Howard University, she has lectured at the University of Connecticut at Stamford, been an instructor at Connecticut College at New London and the University of Hartford, and been assistant professor at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Wesleyan University, her M.A. degree from Smith College, and her B.Mus. degree from Howard. She is married and has one child.
Harris succeeds the Rev. James J. McNamee, who has taken a parish in Maryland, as Coordinator for Ministries with Institutions of Higher Education. In this position he will be accountable for strengthening the Church's ministry in institutions of higher education and specialized settings. Harris' work history includes editor of Plumbline, a journal of the Episcopal Society for Ministry in Higher Education; Episcopal chaplain at the University of Delaware and the University of Michigan; and a missionary in the Diocese of Puerto Rico. He and his wife, Kathryn Pierce Harris, have one child.
Docker's post calls for promoting and facilitating the theological understanding and practice of the mutual ministry of the laity and the clergy. A native of Reading, Penn., Docker is a graduate of Lehigh University and General Theological Seminary in New York. He has been in his present position since 1976. He and his wife, Georgie, have two sons.