Perry Appointed Education Executive
Episcopal News Service. October 30, 1986 [86235]
NEW YORK (DPS, Oct. 30) -- Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning has announced the appointment of the Rev. David W. Perry as Executive for Education for Mission and Ministry at the Episcopal Church Center here.
Perry, who has been director of religious education at All Saints Church, Pasadena, Calif., since 1982, is known to many throughout the Episcopal Church from his years (1973-82) as national coordinator for the Office of Christian Education in the unit of which he will now be executive. He succeeds D. Barry Menuez, who, earlier this year, was appointed by Browning as Senior Executive for Mission Operations.
Born in Salem, Ore., Perry, 45, attended William and Mary College for two years and received a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Oregon in 1963. He received an S.T.B. from the General Theological Seminary in 1966 and was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in that year.
Perry served as General Missionary in Oregon in 1966 and as assistant at Christ Church, Lake Oswego, 1966-71. He was a member of the diocesan council and chaired the Diocese of Oregon Department of Christian Education 1969-70 and was director of Christian Education from 1971 until taking up his first post at the Episcopal Church Center. While in Oregon, he worked actively in ecumenical religious education, organizing local resource groups throughout the western part of the state, and, while on national Church staff, he continued his ecumenical work, serving on the World Council of Churches' Education Working Group 1977-82.
Creator of "Father Fletcher's Christian Education Quiz," a monopoly-style Christian Education board game, Perry was co-editor of the AWARE Religious Education Resource Notebook, edited Homegrown: Christian Education Planning and Programming in the Local Congregation and was co-author of To Care Enough, an intergenerational hunger curriculum.
Perry married Fredrika Ann Wood in 1965, and they have two sons.