Seminarians organize to evangelize young adults

Seminarians are organizing for young adult evangelism according to Otis Gaddis III writing at Episcopal Life Online:

In the fall of 2009 a group of seminary students gathered around a table at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale with the desire to facilitate an intentional ministry of large-scale, effective, grassroots evangelism focused primarily on spiritually homeless young adults that would foster the development of vibrant Episcopal faith communities where people could meet Jesus and be transformed into people who co-labor for Jesus’ Kingdom of love and justice.

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When we looked around the church, we noticed small groups of people here and there attempting to engage these issues, but there was no systemic institutional effort to address these problems. So, we decided to do our part to develop that institutional infrastructure by creating an inter-seminary organization: The Episcopal Evangelism Network (EEN).

Our mission is to gather, equip and mentor entrepreneurial missioner seminarians and give them access to the practical training they need to start new mission-oriented communities or to rebuild spiritual communities that have significantly declined; and to create a safe space for progressive Episcopalians to integrate their values with their vocations for evangelism so that they are able to mobilize effectively the large share of progressive Episcopalians in the pews, of whom many themselves are uncomfortable witnessing to the spiritual transformation they experience as they encounter Jesus.

The first gathering of this organization will September 24-25 in Baltimore, MD. More information here.

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