Episcopal Press and News
News Brief
Episcopal News Service. May 19, 1983 [83096]
(DPS, May 19) -- The Design Team for the 1984 International Episcopal Youth Event held their first meeting in March at Cedarkirk, here in the Diocese of Southwest Florida. Twenty-one young people and adults from each of the Church's nine Provinces met for two days to discuss programs and set goals for the Conference. August 6-10, 1984 is the date announced by Bobbie Bevill, Youth Ministry Coordinator at the Episcopal Church Center. Site for the Event will be Oklahoma State University at Stillwater, Okla. The cost of the Conference will be about $175 per person. This will include room, meals and program expense.
(DPS, May 19) -- The Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy announced today the election of former seminary dean, the Rev. G. Cecil Woods, Jr. as president of its board of directors, replacing Bishop James K. Mathews, retired United Methodist Bishop of the Washington, D.C. area, who had served as President of the Board since the founding of the Center in 1976. Woods served from 1969 to 1982 as Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va. He was from 1958 to 1969 a member of the theological faculty of the University of the South, ("Sewanee"), Sewanee, Tenn. He is a past Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Washington Theological Consortium and is currently serving as a member of the board of directors of the Presiding Bishop's Fund For World Relief and as a trustee of the Episcopal Radio-Television Foundation. "Cecil Woods has served on the Board of the Center for the past three years with distinction," said Dr. Alan Geyer, Executive Director, in making the announcement. "The Board, the staff, and friends of the Center are all delighted that this wise and dedicated Christian statesman has agreed to give active leadership to the work of the Center."
(DPS, May 19) -- The largest national program ever undertaken in the history of the Anglican Church of Canada, "Anglicans in Mission," which is now in its final stage, has passed its target of $40 million. It was announced today by the program's national director, the Rev. Canon W. Ebert Hobbs, that reports in from the dioceses to date indicate that $41.5 million has been committed by the church members. The church has spent nearly three years in mission planning, study and organization to decide "What is God calling the Anglican Church to do in the '80s?" The national and diocesan programs resulting from those discussions will be supported by the funds raised in this final phase of the program. Four of the church's 30 dioceses will not be carrying out this final phase until the fall of this year. In commenting upon the success of the program to date, he declared: "We are particularly thrilled at this point, to realize this is only an interim report. About one-half of the Anglicans in Canada have yet to be approached to be part of 'Anglicans in Mission.'"
(DPS, May 19) -- Archdeacons, treasurers, directors of program, canons to ordinaries, placement officers, and other senior diocesan officers assembled from all over the U.S. and parts of Canada for the annual meeting of the Conference of Diocesan Executives (CODE). The meeting was held April 11-15 at Our Lady of Florida Center, a Roman Catholic retreat and conference center. Taking "Hope in Troubled Times" as its theme, the meeting had the Rev. Charles L. Winter of Loyola University in New Orleans as its keynoter. The Rev. H. Boone Porter, editor of The Living Church, served as chaplain. Representatives of the Church Pension Fund and certain other agencies were present as resource persons. Participants took part in workshops on such topics as church insurance, ministry for refugees, clergy burn-out, and computer usage. The Ven. Mark S. Sisk of the Diocese of New York was reelected chairman of CODE, and Mr. Edward L. Freeland, administrative assistant to the bishop of Alabama, was reelected secretary.
(DPS, May 19) -- A massive mailing, aimed at all members of the networks of the National Mission in Church and Society section of the Episcopal Church Center, is going out this spring to test interest and response to the General Convention's affirmation of the Jubilee Ministry. Public Policy Issues consultant Nancy Deppen said that the questionnaire is designed to help Church Center staff begin to create a mechanism to reach all Episcopalians concerned about public policy issues and action. The enabling resolution passed by Convention requires the Church to develop "an active network able to respond quickly and significantly on public issues of peace and justice." Deppen said the mailing is timed to catch people before parish activities slow down for the summer. She hopes to have a quick response so that the staff can have the material collated and the start of a network in place in the fall.
