2017 New York City

Immigration, Going Out and Coming In: ​Ministries, Transitions and Change in the Episcopal Church

BROCHURE
St. Michael's Episcopal Church on the Upper West Side hosted many Conference activities. Over 50 participants attended the 2017 Conference of the National Episcopal Historians and Archivists. Most activities center around St. Michael's Episcopal Church at 99th and Amsterdam.

The Keynote Speaker was the Rt. Rev. Allen K. Shin. Bishop Shin, Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of New York. Dr. R. Bruce Mullin was preacher at the Opening Eucharist. Participants were able to take a field trip to Mid-Town Beauties: St. Thomas Church (1823) and Church of St. Mary the Virgin (1868), or Beginnings and History Witness: Trinity Church (1697) and St. Paul Chapel (1766) or  A Church Cemetery for All People: St. Michael’s Cemetery (1852)

Presentations included

• “For Every Churchman a Foreign-Born Friend”: The Foreign-Born Americans Division and the Episcopal Church’s Ministry to Immigrants, 1920-1930, Gardiner H. Shattuck
• Virginia Episcopalians Welcome Foreign Refugees: 1950s Style, Julia E. Randle
• Welcoming the Stranger: Refugee Resettlement in the Diocese of Olympia, Diane Wells
• ​Why Churches Should Pay their Archivists: The Practical Value of their Work, Wayne Kempton
• Collaboration with Ancestry.com: Pros, Cons and the Actual Facts, Wayne Kempton, Richard Mammana and panel conversation
• Faith Journeys of Immigrant Ancestors, Faith of Our Fathers, Joyce A. Fletcher Menard
• The Episcopal Church in Hawai’i: Immigrants Became the Majority, Willis H. A. Moore
• Bishop Kemper’s German Ancestors at Trinity Church, Chester Neumann
• From Outcasts to Episcopalians: 18th and 19th Century Germans in New York, Kim Byham
• ‘A Staff of Curates Chiefly Canadian:’ William Stephen Rainsford  and the migration of clergy between the Dioceses of Toronto and New York, 1882-1906, Jonathan S. Lofft

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A Conference Luncheon featured Luncheon Speaker, Nell Braxton Gibson. An afternoon was spent on the campus of General Theological Seminary as it celebrated its Bicentennial and included a Christoph Keller, Jr Library Tour with Rare Books and Archival Display, Chapel of Good Shepherd: Architecture and Iconography, and the General Annual Garden Party and Evensong. Participants enjoyed a concert by John Cantrell, organist and choirmaster of St. Michael's Episcopal Church on a 55 rank, three manual, Von Beckerath organ, built in 1967.