Jubilee Ministries Highlighted
Episcopal News Service. May 5, 1988 [88091]
Barbara Benedict, Director of Communications, Diocese of Colorado
DENVER, Colo. (DPS, May 5) -- Some 125 participants gathered here Apr. 14-17, for the 1988 Jubilee Ministry Annual Conference. Included were Diocesan Jubilee Officers, representatives of Jubilee Centers and Jubilee Interns, as well as committee, commission and advisory board members and staff officers from the Episcopal Church Center.
Keynote speaker was the Rev. Harry Nevels of Emmanuel Church, Cleveland, who reminded his audience that "caring for the poor is more than just doing something for them...it is an opportunity for us to know the Lord."
Among others to address the group was the Rev. Everett Francis of the Standing Commission on the Church in Metropolitan Areas, the body that proposed Jubilee Ministry to General Convention in 1982.
"There is something wrong with our society, the conditions under which we live," said Francis. "The Jubilee program has demonstrated that. The problem is the 'rules of the game.' There are some rules that have to be changed."
Conference participants also heard presentations highlighting various Jubilee ministries, attended seminars and viewed a new video about Jubilee, "Doers of the Word."
The Ven. Michael Kendall of New York City was elected convenor of the Diocesan Jubilee Officers.
There are currently 96 Jubilee Centers in the U.S., so designated "because of out standing programs of mission and ministry for and with poor and oppressed peoples."