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Title: New and Returned Volunteers for Mission Citation: Executive Council Minutes, Nov. 16-18, 1983, New York, pp. 54-62. Committee: World Mission

Resolved, The following persons be acknowledged as new appointments as Overseas Volunteers for Mission:

Mrs. Katherine Bailey, a resident of Chappaqua, NY, and a communicant of St. Paul©s Darien, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve at the Clinica Medical Familia, San Juan in Reynosa, Mexico. Mrs. Bailey is a school nurse and is taking her vacation time to serve six weeks as a consultant and nurse in this very important clinic on the border of Mexico with . Since this appointment happened over the summer, she has already served and returned. A report is in the Returned from the Field list; Mr. Kedron Barrett, of Concord, New Hampshire and a graduate of St. Paul©s School in Concord, and a student of Yale University is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a Fraternal Worker with the Evangelical Church of West Berlin. We are anxious to see how this appointment goes, for it may indeed be a source of many appointments in the future if positive; Miss Ann Frances Benton, a graduate of Harvard University and a ®rst year medical student at Columbia University, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a medical student assistant in hospitals and clinics in the Diocese of Central Tanganyika. This appointment is a summer appointment, and Miss Benton has already served and is returned to her studies at Columbia University; Miss Deanna Ruth Dickerson, a communicant of the Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC is appointed to serve as a teacher at Holy Trinity School, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, she holds a degree in Education with a concentration in Spanish language. She also speaks French and Creole, and we know will do an excellent job there in Haiti; Mr. Ian Theodore Douglas, postulant of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, holding both M.Div. and Master of Education degrees, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve pastoral internship at the Centre de Darbonne in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He will work under Pere Lafontant doing all sorts of pastoral work and ministry to young people; Mrs. Bonnie Jean Fisher, a communicant of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Kingman, Arizona, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve a one year term of service as a teacher at St. John©s School in Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Mrs. Fisher has taught with distinction in the schools in Arizona; Mrs. Christine Geer, a student at the Virginia Theological Seminary, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve for the summer as an Administrative Assistant to Bishop Yohanda Madinda of the Diocese of Central Tanganyika. In this assignment, Miss Geer hopes to gain valuable insight into the mission of the church, and also to establish more ®rmly her calling to be a minister of our church; The Rev. Robert E. Hood, professor of Church and Society at the General Theological Seminary, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve a three months

Archives Research Report, EXC111983.47 Page 1 of 7 period at the Institute of Church and Society and the Center for Applied Religion and Education in Nigeria. Professor Hood will serve as a visiting lecturer and researcher in the area of African Religion and Spirituality. We look forward to his report on his return; The Rev. Joshua Soichi Kominami, a priest of the Diocese of Kobe, Japan, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as the assistant to the Rector of St. Mary©s Parish, Los Angeles, California, with special assignment as missioner for the Japanese-speaking ministry of that parish and of the Diocese of Los Angeles. This is an excellent example of how a Church overseas can act as partner to the Episcopal Church, USA; The Rev. Darry Kyong Ho Lee is appointed a Volunteer for Mission from the Diocese of Los Angeles to the Diocese of Busan Korea. Father Lee will serve as a priest in the diocese, and will learn cultural and language skills for use among Korean persons on his return to the USA; Mr. Eric Linder, of the Diocese of Michigan is appointed a Volunteer for Mission, to serve as a teacher at St. John©s School in Puerto Cortes, Honduras. He will also serve as Assistant to the Headmaster of the school. Mr. Linder has an excellent record as a teacher at the University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe, Michigan; Mr. John Ashley Null, a student at Berkeley Divinity School from Salina, Kansas, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a summer missionary in the Diocese of West Buganda, Uganda. Mr. Null expects to work among the youth of the Diocese of West Buganda; Miss Karen Panton, a communicant of Grace Episcopal Church in Flushing, New York, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to work with Cross Roads Africa on a building project team that will be working on a primary school in Wusi, in the Taita Hills of Kenya. Miss Panton is a student at Barnard College in New York City; Miss Michelle Rougeau, a nurse from Detroit, Michigan and a communicant of the Church of the Messiah in Detroit, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a nurse at the Christian Health Center in Ilesha, Nigeria. She will serve a term of six months beginning in mid July 1983. The ®rst six months of Miss Rougeau©s term will be an experiment to see if she would like to stay longer. We are anxious to hear the results; Miss Ana Maria Soto, the daughter of Onell Soto on the staff of the Episcopal Church Center, and a communicant of St. James Episcopal Church in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve in the Christian Education Program of the Diocese of Central Brazil. Miss Soto will have the opportunity of moving from church to church and working among social programs in order to gain a maximum amount of experience and to add her special gifts and talents in a broad area of the diocese. Miss Soto is a graduate of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee; The Rev. Henry H. Sturtevant, former Vicar of St. Clement©s Episcopal Church in New York City and a Youth Counselor at Covenant House in New York City, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission, to serve as Director of "Project Cultural Diversity & Cultural Unity" of the Diocese of Nicaragua in Managua. Fr. Sturtevant will involve himself in many ways with government and church and cultural institutions to seek ways to use indigenous culture as a medium in worship. He is already hard

Archives Research Report, EXC111983.47 Page 2 of 7 at work and has won many friends both among the church people and in the community; Mr. Vincent A. Tarducci, a communicant of Emmanuel Church, New Port, Rhode Island, and a Deacon in training in the Permanent Deacon©s program of the Diocese of Rhode Island, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve a six months internship as a Deacon in Training under the supervision of the Venerable A.H. Huggins, Archdeacon of Grenada, St. George©s, Grenada, West Indies; Miss Kyshia Alexandra Whitlock, of Charlotte, North Carolina is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a teacher at La Escuela Del Espiritu Santo in Tela, Honduras. Miss Whitlock is an elementary school teacher and has ®nally been able to gather enough support to make her volunteer service a reality in Honduras; and be it further

Resolved, That the following persons have been appointed Domestic Volunteer for Mission:

Miss Katherine M. Aiken, a student at Wellesley College, from the Diocese Massachusetts is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as Coordinator of the City Camp of the Church of the Messiah in Providence, Rhode Island, which takes place during the summer. Miss Aiken has had a variety of experiences working with young people in both parish and community settings. She is the second volunteer to hold this position; Mrs. Carol Barton, a communicant of St. George©s Episcopal Church in Grif®n, Georgia, and a teacher at Barnesville Academy is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a Community Worker at the Highland Educational Project for a period of three months. If all goes well with this appointment, Mrs. Barton is considering overseas appointment; Mr. E. Gray Beasley, a graduate of Oklahoma State University, and a communicant of St. Luke©s Church, Bartlesville, Oklahoma is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve for a year as a Community Work at Emmaus House in , Georgia. Mr. Beasley will work with children and tutoring, and will also assist in various projects in the neighborhood around Emmaus House; Mrs. Joyce Callaghan, a communicant of the Cathedral in Boise, Idaho, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve at the Long Island Refugee Resettlement Project in Brooklyn, New York and later as a Child Care Worker at St. Jude©s Ranch for Children in Boulder City, Nevada. Mrs. Callaghan has already served successfully as Rector/Secretary and Program Assistant at the Long Island Refugee Resettlement Project, and is presently preparing for her new assignment at St. Jude©s Ranch; The Rev. Ernest W. Cockrell, Rector of St. Gabriel©s Church in Marion, MA, is appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as an Interim Rector for St. John©s Church, Idaho Falls, Idaho for the summer of 1983. Father Cockrell will be accompanied by his family, and they will all serve in various ways in the community of Idaho Falls, as he assumes his summer duties. Father Cockrell seeks to serve as an exchange Rector each summer and this is the ®rst time he has served as a volunteer for Mission here in the USA; Mr. William F. Dingus, a graduate of Rice University, and a communicant of the Episcopal Church in Pampa, Texas, will serve as a Community Worker at Emmaus House. Mr. Dingus says of himself that "he can ®x anything or at least he is not

Archives Research Report, EXC111983.47 Page 3 of 7 afraid to try." He majored in geology, and will have much hands-on experience in ®xing things in the community around Emmaus House; Mr. John C. Hauser, the son of the Rt. Rev. Stanley F. Hauser, of the Diocese of West Texas, has been re-appointed a Volunteer for Mission to serve as a Community Worker at Good Samaritan Center in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Hauser previously had served part of a one-year term in Nicaragua, and has been serving since that time at Good Samaritan Center; Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Walworth, communicants of Christ Church in Puyallup, Washington, are appointed Volunteers for Mission to serve as lay missionaries at the Shoshone mission at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. The Walworth©s will be giving leadership training and developing lay ministry on the reservation. Mr. Walworth is a Vocational Agriculture Instructor and Mrs. Walworth has served as a Dental Assistant and a Computer Technician; and be it further

Resolved, That the following volunteers be recognized as having returned from the ®eld or completed their term of service:

Miss Katherine Aiken, who comes from Truro, MA, served this summer as Camp Coordinator for the City Camp of the Church of the Messiah in Providence, Rhode Island where she served with distinction. The Rev. Walter C. Simmons sings her praises and asks for a volunteer just like her for next year; Mrs. Katherine Bailey, who hails from the Diocese of New York, has returned from a month and half of service at the clinic in Reynosa, Mexico. Bishop Romero said that she was of great value in organizing the clinic©s records and method of handling patients. She also went to Monterrey to consult with the dioceses regarding the clinic at Ninos Heroes, which is a suburb of Monterrey. Mrs. Bailey entered into the life of the parish and the clinic and the surroundings beautifully, and was of great value in communicating the work of the clinic to the sister parish across the boarder, St. John©s, McAllen; Mr. John Bauer served as Financial Advisor to the Diocese of Liberia and to Cuttington College for a period of one year. Mr. Bauer is a retired banker and a long time church leader in the Diocese of Eastern Oregon. Mr. Bauer has submitted a lengthy report on his experiences and work as a Volunteer for Mission. Archbishop Browne found his services extremely helpful in both locations; Mr. Walker Brents, III has completed a year of service as a volunteer coordinator at St. Anselm©s Emmigrant and Refugees Community Center in Garden Grove, California. Mr. Brents has submitted an excellent report on his year of service, and the center reports that his service was extremely helpful and has asked for a volunteer to replace him; Miss Susan Broaddus has completed two years of service as a bilingual secretary in the Bishop©s of®ce in Bukavu, Zaire. During her tour of service, she became responsible for managing the Bishop©s of®ce upon the sudden death of Archbishop Ndahura. She continued service with Bishop Diropka who replaced Bishop Ndahura. Miss Broaddus at present is preparing herself for further ministry by study of scripture and theology. She did a superb job as a volunteer in a very dif®cult situation;

Archives Research Report, EXC111983.47 Page 4 of 7 Mr. Ian Brown, a volunteer from Jamaica, has completed his services as a Volunteer for Mission working with the Long Island Refugee Resettlement Project. Mr. Brown continues to live with Fr. Kenyon©s family and to attend college in Brooklyn. Mr. Brown©s long term goal is to study theology and to become a priest; The Rev. Ernest Cockrell, of Marion, MA, has returned from serving a summer interim pastorate at Idaho Falls, Idaho at the request of Bishop Birney. Father Cockrell©s desire for summer placement within the USA and the need of the Church in Idaho Falls worked out just perfectly, and we are sure that a great deal was accomplished in this interim period; Miss Maria W. Eddy, of Tarrytown, New York, has returned from service at the Highland Educational Project in Northfork, West Virginia. During her term of service, she ministered to the elderly and the shut-ins and developed a youth ministry. She is now enrolled at Berkeley at Yale Divinity School where she is studying for the Episcopal ministry. All reports on Miss Eddy©s work are outstanding; The Very Rev. O.C. Edwards returned from sabbatical leave of three months which he spent in Nigeria studying the theological seminaries of our church and other churches in the area. His report is an excellent overview of the theological work being done in that part of Africa, and gives excellent recommendations for the relationships between Province V and the Province of Nigeria in the ®eld of theological education; Mrs. Christine Geer spent this summer working as Administrative Assistant to Bishop Madinda of the Diocese of Central Tanganyika. A student at Virginia Seminary, Mrs. Geer hails from the Diocese of Rhode Island; Mr. Gustaf Charles Hansen, son of the Rev. Harry W. Hansen, a missionary in Japan, has returned from a year of teaching English as a second language in the Diocese of Hokaido, Japan. We are awaiting a brie®ng report from him at the present time, but all indications are that his work was very successful. He is presently studying for a doctoral degree in Canada; The Rev. Alan Jones has returned from a sabbatical leave that he spent as a professor of Ascetical Theology at St. Julian©s Center in the Province of Kenya. His work there was excellent, and proved of great value to our missionaries and volunteers when he led a retreat at the Center for all serving in Africa. We plan to ask Fr. Jones to lead a retreat for our missionaries and volunteers in Central America and South America in the coming summer, based on the experience in Africa. We are grateful for his service; Miss Linda L. Kerr has completed a most extraordinary four-year term of service at the Ecole de Theologie de Butare, Rwanda. She served with distinction, teaching many young African Theological Students who have now been ordained to the ministry due to her efforts. She was very well received by all of her fellow faculty and the students acclaimed her as an excellent friend and teacher. She is presently studying at Berkeley Divinity school in New Haven, working toward the M.Div. Degree; Mr. William Killough completed a year of service at the Long Island Refugee Resettlement Project in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Killough served with distinction with refugees of many nationalities and was a leader in the staff of the Center. Mr.

Archives Research Report, EXC111983.47 Page 5 of 7 Killough has returned to the Diocese of where he has accepted a job in private industry; Mrs. Gail H. McDonald has returned from a two-year tour of service as a teacher at St. John©s School in Puerto Cortes, Honduras. Mrs. McDonald taught the ®rst, third and fourth grades during her tour, and was active in the Sunday School of St. John©s Church as well. During her term of service, Mrs. McDonald was married to a SAMS missionary and they now have returned to Ambridge, PA where Mr. McDonald is studying for the ministry. Mrs. McDonald is presently teaching school; Mrs. Sheryl McGrath, a professor of nursing at Staten Island University School of Nursing and a communicant of the Diocese of Long Island, served as a chaplain intern for the summer at St. Luke©s Hospital in Boise, Idaho. She was supervised by the Rev. Koji Hayashi the chaplain of the hospital, and gained a great deal of pastoral insight which she will use in training her nurses at Staten Island University. The reports on her work have been excellent, and we are delighted to have had the opportunity of having a nursing professor operating in a chaplaincy situation through the Volunteers for Mission program; Mr. Ashley Null served a summer internship with Bishop Senyonjo of the Diocese of West Buganda. His work included youth ministries and work at a summer camp at Lake Nabugabo. Mr. Null has returned to his studies at Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven; Mr. Wallace E. Palmer has returned after three years of service at Project LIFE in Mariscos, Guatemala. During his time at Project LIFE, Mr. Palmer was able to activate a clinic and to draw support from a wide base in the USA. Mr. Palmer had major surgery near the end of his term and he needed time to recover and has returned to the USA where he is now deciding the next steps in his career; Miss Karen Panton served a summer term with Crossroads Africa with a team building a school in Wusi, Kenya. While on the project Miss Panton was able to meet with Anglicans and to worship with them on Sundays. She commented that going to church in Kenya was similar to going to church in the Diocese of Jamaica. She had a wonderful time, and the school got built; Miss Suzanne Pohto has completed a one-year term as secretary to Sister Leslie Ann at Holy Trinity School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Sister Leslie Ann found her services invaluable, and recommended that she be considered for another appointment in another locale in Haiti. We are in the process of re-appointing her to the new location; Mr. David Simpson completed his term as coordinator of the Long Island Refugee Resettlement Project, and has returned to full time work in the insurance industry. He at present is assisting the Diocese of New York in reorganizing its refugee resettlement programs; Mr. Stephen F. Templeton has returned from a summer©s work at the clinic in Ninos Heroes which is a suburb of Monterrey, Mexico. Both Mr. Templeton and Bishop Romero report that the experience was excellent and that much was accomplished during this time. Mr. Templeton has returned to the University of the South to complete his degree there, and we look forward to hearing great things of his leadership in the Episcopal Church in the future; The Rev. Julio Torres was terminated as a Volunteer for Mission after nine months of service with Project LINK, a refugee program of the Diocese of Nicaragua for

Archives Research Report, EXC111983.47 Page 6 of 7 Salvadoran people. Fr. Torres is canonically resident and under the care of the Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio; Mr. Carl Turner, a Volunteer for Mission from Durham, England, completed a two year term of service at the Cathedral in Milwaukee, WI where he served as a lay missioner under the Dean of the Cathedral. A report from Mr. Turner shows that he had an excellent experience and that he has decided to study for the ministry on his return to England. Reports from the Diocese of Milwaukee give an excellent report on his work there; Mr. John Wortham, who was the ®rst Volunteer for Mission under the present program, completed his service after ®ve years of work as a nurse in Honduras. He ®rst served as a nurse in St. Mark©s clinic in San Marcos, Honduras and later moved to Proteccion where he started a clinic and was in charge of out stations from that clinic that served remote native population. Mr. Wortham remains in Proteccion with his wife and family.

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