Teaching: National Network of Episcopal Clergy Association conference set for June 25-27

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori among the speakers

March 06, 2007 [Episcopal News Service] "Our Church Lives" is the theme of this year's conference of the National Network of Episcopal Clergy Association (NNECA,) set to run June 25-27 at the Woodlands Inn in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.

Keynote speakers will include: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop Steven Charleston, president, dean and professor of Theology at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Rev. Michael Battle, associate dean for Academic Affairs and vice president and associate professor of Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia; the Rev. Loren Mead, founder of the Alban Institute in Washington, D.C.; and the Rev. Tex Sample, an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.

Jefferts Schori will both preach and speak to those gathered for the 37th annual conference. Battle, who studied in South Africa under Desmond M. Tutu, the Anglican archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, will also do double duty speaking on the African-American experience in the Episcopal Church during the past 400 years, and preaching.

Charleston, a Choctaw nation citizen, will address issues of justice, spiritual renewal and reconciliation.

Mead will lead a presentation and discussion on "The Once and Future Church" which is also the title of his book, and Sample will speak on "Claiming the Future," an understanding of the culture in which the church exists today.

According to Ken Beason, president of the NNECA, "Our Church Lives" is a "unique—not to be missed--- event." He describes the conference as "an exciting new strategy in NNECA's continuing goal to support its members and their families."

"Conference participants will worship and work in historic Williamsburg," said Beason.

"The creative and thought provoking speakers will address challenges and possibilities for the 21st century church."

Those in attendance will also commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia colony and worship at historic Bruton Parish Episcopal Church.

In addition to the keynote addresses, a series of workshops will feature representatives from the offices of Church Deployment, Ministry Development, Black Ministries and Chaplaincy and as well as the Church Pension Group. Bonnie Anderson, president of the House of Deputies will also lead a workshop.

For information call 541-476-2493.

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