Two Priests Join Education Staff
Episcopal News Service. January 21, 1988 [88011]
NEW YORK (DPS, Jan. 21) -- The Presiding Bishop has appointed two priests -- the Rev. Sheryl Kujawa and The Rev. Nathaniel Porter -- as coordinators, respectively, for youth ministries and ministry in higher education, in the Education for Mission and Ministry Unit.
Kujawa, who has been youth missioner for the Diocese of Massachusetts since 1983, will be responsible for developing educational resources and programs for junior high and high school age children and for coordinating the network of adult workers in this field. In addition to her diocesan work, Kujawa has carried on the same role for Province I since 1985.
A graduate of Marquette University, she also holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, the Episcopal Divinity School, and Harvard Divinity School, and is a candidate for a doctoral degree from Boston College. She is a member of the American Historical Association, the National Episcopal Historians' Association, and the Episcopal Women's History Project.
Porter moves to the Church Center after 15 years as chaplain at Howard University. As coordinator, Porter will work with the Episcopal Society for Ministry in Higher Education and with the Society's eight regional coordinators, to help raise the visibility, of and develop programs and resources, to support, college chaplaincies.
Porter, who has served as a regional coordinator for the Society, has also served on the Presiding Bishop's Board Advisory Committee on Higher Education.
Porter earned his undergraduate degree at South Carolina State College and his theological degree from the Philadelphia Divinity School. He has also earned a doctoral degree from Howard's Divinity School. He has held parish cures in North and South Carolina, and in Illlinois. He has served as an officer in the Union for Black Episcopalians, the Coalition for Human Need, and on peace and racism commissions in his diocese. He has been active in community and governmental affairs and serves on the Bishop Tutu Scholarship committee.