News Brief
Episcopal News Service. September 14, 1978 [78255]
One hundred eighteen youths recently completed a six-month vocational training program at Trinity College here under a program sponsored in part by the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief. The program offers training in tailoring, food industries, electronics and electricity and commercial and industrial arts for indigent young men and women who are not already in school. It is part of a major effort by the college to improve the lives of the thousands of poverty-stricken people who inhabit the core city around the college and cathedral.
The Episcopal Church's Task Force on Women will hold its 1978 Open Conference on the Ministry of Women on Nov. 2-4 in Cleveland, Ohio. The three-day conference will include skills identification, workshops, worship, the arts and theological reflection; all geared to help women examine and affirm the variety of lay and ordained ministries. Information on the Conference may be obtained from Dr. Anne Harrison at the Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017
The Ven. Courtland M. Moore, archdeacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, was elected to chair the steering committee of the Conference of Diocesan Executives during a midsummer planning meeting at Seabury House here. Elected with Archdeacon Moore were; the Ven. Canon William G. Penny of the Diocese of Long Island, vice chairman; Walter Berberian of the Diocese of Central New York, treasurer; the Ven. Arthur B. Williams of the Diocese of Ohio, secretary; the Rev. Canon C. Harry Christopher of the Diocese of Colorado, programmar, and the Ven. Canon Robert Davis, Diocese of North Carolina, coordinator.
The Rt. Rev. William Alfred Franklin, who resigned this year as Episcopal Bishop of Colombia, is returning to his native England as assistant bishop here. Ordained in England in 1940, he spent virtually all of his ministry in Latin America, first as a member of the Church of England and, since 1965 as a priest of the Episcopal Church. He was consecrated Bishop of Colombia in 1972 and served there until his resignation for missionary strategy early this year.
Miss Mildred Capron, a retired Episcopal Church missionary in China, died recently in Jackson, Wyo. Miss Capron began her work in China in 1921 as an assistant in the business office of the American Church Mission in Anking and Sga Shanghai. She returned from China in 1935 and served until 1948 as secretary-treasurer in the Church office in Wyoming.