Presiding Bishop Will Visit Black Congregations in Four States
Episcopal News Service. June 26, 1992 [92148]
As part of his efforts to underscore the church's fight against racism, Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning will visit black congregations and community organizations in four states, July 23-27.
"The tour will enable the presiding bishop to make personal contact with priests and laity responsible for ministries of several outstanding congregations in the African-American community," said the Rev. Harold Lewis, staff officer for black ministries. Lewis and members of his staff arranged the trip and will accompany the presiding bishop.
First stop will be St. Luke's in New Haven, Connecticut, the third oldest black parish in the Episcopal Church, founded in 1854. Browning will participate in the noon-hour feeding program and celebrate the Eucharist and preach that evening. He will also visit the senior citizens program at St. Andrew's Church.
On July 24, the team will visit Episcopal Outreach of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, an outreach program cited by President George Bush as one of the "thousand points of light." After touring the facilities, Browning will address summer campers and preach that evening at St. Cyprian's Church in Georgetown.
The presiding bishop will celebrate Eucharist, preach and baptize young people from the community during the July 25 visit to Emmanuel Episcopal Center, a diocesan outreach center in inner-city Memphis, Tennessee. That afternoon he will preach at an ecumenical service at the National Civil Rights Museum, built on the site where Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated.
Final stop on the tour will be Chicago, where Browning will celebrate and preach at the July 26 rededication of St. Edmund's Church and officiate at the dedication of an apartment building rehabilitated to provide housing for low to moderate income families. On the morning of July 27, the presiding bishop will deliver a meditation at the neighborhood feeding program at Sts. George and Matthias and then visit a Head Start program and shelter for battered women operated by St. Thomas Church.
[For further information, contact the Rev. Harold Lewis at (212) 9225208.]