News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. August 12, 1963 [XII-7]
SERVICE FOR DEAF
Moving hands sang hymns and anthems, preached the sermon, and pronounced the benediction June 23 at the National Cathedral in Washington.
Approximately 2,000 persons from 46 nations were present to participate in a worship service for the deaf, the first of its kind ever to be held in the National Cathedral.
A large portion of the participants were educators of the deaf who in June were attending an International Congress on Education of the Deaf at Gallaudet College. For them, the service was an example of how to communicate a sense of worship and the words of the Gospel in sign language.
WORKSHOP IN N. C.
A four-day summer workshop designed for study and examination of the church in the world was held June 10-14 at St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, N. C.
The workshop--a Summer School for Religious Education is sponsored annually by the National Council and is directed by the Rev. Dr. Tollie L. Caution, associate secretary for Negro Work in National Council's Division of Domestic Mission.
STUDENTS SAIL FOR JAPAN
A group of 30 American and Canadian college students sailed June 23 from San Francisco to Kobe, Japan, aboard the maiden voyage of the largest passenger liner constructed in postwar Japan, the "Sakaru Maru (Cherry Blossom)"
The 30 students, all Episcopalians, participated in a month-long work-camp project under the sponsorship of the Holy Catholic Church in Japan. A similar group of Japanese students will join them at the work-camp site in Tarumi, Japan, where, among other things, they will construct a dormitory for Sao Paulo School.