Episcopal School Week
Diocesan Press Service. September 3, 1963 [XIII-12]
Note to editors:
Episcopal School Week will be observed Oct. 27 - Nov. 3. This is an appropriate time to run a story about the Episcopal schools in your own diocese. The Episcopal School Week Committee member for your diocese will be in contact with you shortly. He is prepared to assist you in gathering information concerning Episcopal schools in your area.
It is a matter of deep concern to both clergy and schoolmen that many faithful communicants know so little about the schools of our church. The Unit of Parish and Preparatory Schools of the Department of Christian Education and the Episcopal School Association believe that Episcopal schools are vital agents of both educational and evangelical work in the church. In the interaction of altar and classroom, there exists a unique relationship which they believe permits the development of the whole child.
More than 70, 000 pupils currently enrolled represent a major missionary action of the Episcopal Church. If education is the process by which persons are prepared for life and death, then churchmen need only be reminded of church schools as one means of meeting a common task. The schools of the Episcopal Church pursue a corporate ambition to lead and teach boys and girls so that they may be at home' in God's world, may accept the redeeming work of our Lord Jesus Christ, and may put themselves at the service of His Holy Spirit, Who shall lead us in all Truth.
A STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDING BISHOP
From every side doubts and criticisms are expressed concerning American education: there is not enough training in science; the humanities are being crowded out of our curricula; the fall-out at the high school level is increasing. Whether or not these things be true, the fact remains that it is the task of the Church to promote sound learning, to inculcate high moral standards in our youth, and to give them the compassion and breadth of vision to see all men as equal before God, and all truth as God's revelation.
Our Church is emphasizing this task again this year by the observance of Episcopal School Week, beginning Sunday, the 27th of October. I ask you to pray for our schools, that students and teachers may be guided by the Holy Spirit.