Loading...Looking ahead to the special electing convention this June, Bishop Ted Gulick wants to insure that younger generations of Kentucky Episcopalians have a chance to share their hopes and dreams for the Episcopal Church and its leadership with the people who will be voting for the diocese’s eighth bishop.
To that end, he has invited several leaders and participants in college and young adults’ ministries in the diocese to join him for a panel discussion during this convention on Saturday morning, Feb. 27.
As if to signal its importance, the panel discussion, “Generation to Generation: Unique Voices & Different Accents," has a central place on the agenda for the second day of convention. Scheduled from 9:30-10:30 a.m. (CT) in Grace Church’s parish hall, the session will follow morning prayer and the bishop’s annual address and immediately precede the first business session.
The panel will be composed of the canon to young adults ministries, chaplains of campus ministries and their constituents, other young adults’ leaders and one of the diocese’s newest priests, the Rev. Hilary Bogert, who is presently serving in western Massachusetts.
Describing the program as a dialogue, Gulick said the session will give the diocese an opportunity to celebrate our young adults and their leaders, and it promises to be one an exciting and informative event.
Although the diocese, according to the bishop, has one of the highest percentages of total clergy in their 20s and 30s in any diocese in the American church, he anticipates, given the demographics of The Episcopal Church, that most of the electors at the June electing convention will be closer to his age [61]. "Certainly it is not going to be the battle of Episcopal generations, but it will be, I think, an exciting time for the convention as a whole to hear persons primarily in their 20s and early 30s giving their vision of The Episcopal Church and what they would hope for in Episcopal leadership in the future.”
