Helmer, Hoover To Join Council
Episcopal News Service. November 20, 1986 [86247]
NEW YORK (DPS, Nov. 20) -- The Executive Council, meeting at the Episcopal Church Center here Nov. 12-14, elected the Ven. Ben E. Helmer and Judith H. Hoover to join their ranks and the Rt. Rev. Rustin R. Kimsey and the Rev. Robert Wainwright as Episcopal Church alternate delegates to the Anglican Consultative Council.
The open spots on the Council were created by the election to the episcopate of George Bates and the acceptance by George McGonigle of appointment to the Church Center staff. A replacement for the Rev. Donald A. Nickerson, recently appointed executive officer of General Convention is still to come.
Helmer, who has been Archdeacon of Western Kansas since 1982, is also vicar of Incarnation, Salina, and St. Ann, McPherson, Kans. He received his B.A. in 1969 and an M.Div. from the General Theological Seminary in 1973. For the past year, he has been a member and secretary of the Standing Commission on the Church in Small Communities. He was a board member of Coalition 14, 1979-83, and secretary of that organization 1980-82. Since 1984, he has been executive of the Leadership Academy for New Directions (LAND). He chaired the McPherson, Kans. food bank 1983-86 and was school board president, Goodland, Kans. 1979-81. He has had leadership experience with small congregations, regional and diocesan administration, and his special areas of concern are the issues of agricultural and resources crises and their effect on rural ministry.
Hoover, a laywoman from the Diocese of Minnesota, has spent ten years as a volunteer for Minneapolis United Way in allocations, new programs, priority studies, monitoring and long-range planning. For an equal length of time, she has been search consultant for the Diocese of Minnesota. She is a board member of the Minnesota Episcopal Foundation and served as a deputy to the 1985 General Convention. For seven years, she was a management consultant for Camp Fire, Inc. She was a member of the bishop's screening committee for holy orders for four years and coordinator of youth ministry for five. Since August 1986, she has also been Province VI coordinator of youth ministry.
In February 1983, then-Bishop of Hawaii Edmond L. Browning was elected by the Executive Council to the post of Episcopal Representative to the Anglican Consultative Council for three meetings. At the same time, the Council provided that the Presiding Bishop should be the Standing Alternate. With his election as Presiding Bishop, Browning became both delegate and alternate for the Episcopal order. The current election was for an Alternate for ACC-7 and ACC-8, Browning having already served with former Presiding Bishop John M. Allin as Alternate at ACC-6.
At the time of the previous elections for the Anglican Consultative Council, no action was taken to name an alternate for Presbyteral Representative the Rev. Frederick H. Borsch. Therefore, it was necessary at this meeting to provide an Alternate for the next meeting, ACC-7.
Kimsey, the new Episcopal Alternate, is Bishop of Eastern Oregon. He organized the first series of Partners-In-Mission for the Episcopal Church during Executive Council membership, 1969-76. He was elected as Presbyteral Representative to the Anglican Consultative Council for ACC-5, which term was interrupted when he was elected bishop in 1980. He was a member of the deputation for Archbishop Desmond Tutu's installation.
Wainwright, rector of St. Paul's Church, Rochester, N.Y. since 1970, has been a Deputy to five General Conventions and was a member of Executive Council, 1975-82. He was Episcopal Church representative to the Australian Partners in Mission Consultation and attended ACC-5 in New Castle, England in 1981 as the clergy representative. He chairs the Standing Commission on the Structure of the Church.