Episcopal Communicators to Meet in Williamsburg
Episcopal News Service. February 16, 1989 [89026]
NEW YORK (DPS, Feb. 16) -- The annual conference of Episcopal Communicators will be held in Williamsburg, Virginia, April 17-20. Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning will be the keynote speaker, addressing the opening session of the conference on the implications of the Mission Imperative on communication in terms of today's Church.
At a later session, Sonia Francis will discuss national plans and strategies relating to this mission imperative and the ways in which those involve communicators. Francis is Executive for Communication at the Episcopal Church Center in New York,
The Rev. Herbert O'Driscoll, rector of Christ Church in Calgary (Canada), will be theologian-in-residence for the conference. He will offer daily meditations relating the ministry of communication to its scriptural and theological bases. O'Driscoll's participation in the conference was made possible by a grant from the Episcopal Church Foundation.
The format of the conference includes a wide variety of workshops on both electronic and print communication, led by acknowledged specialists in their fields, as well as sharing sessions at which communicators from various parts of the country can learn from each other new solutions to common problems in their work.
Special events during the conference will include Choral Evensong at Bruton Parish Church in Colonial Williamsburg and a closing Eucharist at Jamestown Tower Church and the Robert Hunt Memorial.
Episcopal Communicators is an organization of people involved in the ministry of communication in the Episcopal Church at national, diocesan, or parish levels. founded in 1971 as NET-11, the organizations now includes more than 130 members who represent most of the dioceses of the Church.
The annual conference is a time for skills building; learning about events and movements in the Church; re-inspirations, renewal, and recommitment; and mutual sharing and support for communicators.
This year's conference will be held at the Fort-Magruder Inn in Williamsburg, and will open with a reception and dinner on Monday evening, April 17, and conclude with a picnic lunch following the Eucharist at Jamestown on Thursday, April 20.
Full details and a conference brochure may be obtained from Ruth Nicastro, President, Episcopal Communicators, P.O. Box 2164, Los Angeles, California 99051. Tel. (213) 482-2040.