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Church Army Annual Meeting Held

Diocesan Press Service. February 1, 1974 [74023]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Church Army in the U.S.A., the only official body of Lay Evangelists within the Episcopal Church, held its Annual Meeting on Tuesday, January 22, in New York City.

The Rev. Dr. H. Boone Porter, President of the Society's Board of Trustees, and the Rev. Logan E. Taylor, National Executive, have announced that in addition to the usual necessary business, consideration of reports and the like, eight members of the Society's Board of Trustees were elected.

Trustees elected were: The Rt. Rev. Quinton E. Primo, Jr., Suffragan Bishop of Chicago; the Rev. George E. Ross, rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Akron, Ohio; Captain William Paddock, Church Army, Development Officer, Diocese of Southern Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio; the Rev. Captain Donald L. Wright, Church Army, Rural Dean (priest- in-charge of nine congregations in five counties in southwestern Virginia), Java, Va.; Mrs. Edward Cosden, Management Consultant, New York City; Sister Margaret Hawk, Church Army, Lay Evangelist, Pine Ridge, S.D.; Ms. Olive Mae Mulica, Staff to Task Force on Women of the Lay Ministries Program, Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, New York City; Captain Robert Andrew, Church Army, minister-in-charge, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Vermillion, Ohio.

The Rev. Logan E. Taylor, National Executive of The Church Army, stated in his report to the Annual Meeting that all elements of the work of the Society are progressing very well and that he feels the work of The Church Army is emerging on a new day of service within the Church and the world in its mission as a "group of people working with people showing God's Love" in all areas of life. Father Taylor reported the demand for Church Army Officers has far exceeded the supply of Officers available for assignments. During 1973, three new Officers were Commissioned. The new Training Program opens February 4, 1974 at The General Theological Seminary with seven trainees. Although Church Army classes will be held in facilities of General Seminary they will be separate from Seminary classes.

The National Executive reported he had travelled 437,852 miles in 11 months in a program of visitation to Church Army Officers scattered across the nation, had visited 37 dioceses, made 62 speaking engagements telling the Church Army story. His visitations will continue in 1974.

The Church Army was started in England in 1883 by the Rev. Wilson Carlile, invited to the United States in 1925 by a group of American Bishops to conduct the "Bishops' Crusade " which was so successful The Church Army was invited to stay. In 1927 the first training school was started. Church Army was incorporated in 1930, officially recognized by General Convention in 1931, and placed under the jurisdiction of the Presiding Bishop. The Presiding Bishop is Honorary Chairman of The Church Army's Board. The Church Army defines itself as a Society of Christians committed to the widest possible social and evangelistic ministry.

Church Army Officers and Interns serve in a broad variety of ministries, from parishes and missions to such institutions as mental hospitals, homes for the elderly, in areas of migrant workers, inner city ministries, American Indians in the Dakotas and Alaska.