New Stewardship Post Is Filled
Episcopal News Service. April 14, 1983 [83067]
NEW YORK (DPS, April 14) -- Laura Edna Wright, a member of the Church Center staff for the last four years, has been named to the recently authorized post of Associate for Stewardship.
Presiding Bishop John M. Allin made the appointment April 1. The General Convention, which met in New Orleans last September, authorized a second person in the stewardship office beginning this budget year.
Wright will be responsible for conducting diocesan workshops, coordinating department activities and assisting in preparation of stewardship educational programs and materials with the Rev. Henry Free, the stewardship officer.
Wright joined the Church Center staff in 1979 after a career in business. She was serving as administrative assistant to Stewardship Executive, the Rev. Thomas H. Carson Jr., when she was named to the new post.
A life-long Episcopalian, she is a member of the Church of the Redeemer in Astoria, N.Y., a member of the vestry and a trained stewardship consultant for the Diocese of Long Island.
The appointment comes at a time when many dioceses are showing a renewed interest in stewardship and are taking up the enthusiastic affirmation of the last General Convention that the tithe is the basic standard of giving of the Christian. In acknowledging that standard, the bishops and deputies pledged to work toward it in their personal giving and to encourage it within their parishes and dioceses.
Wright is the first woman to serve as a stewardship officer for the Church Center.
She is a widow with two adult children.