Province VII's Center for Hispanic Ministries will offer an intensive course this June at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest for those preparing for mission to Latinos living in the United States.
The Rev. Jaime Case, center director, will present the Hispanic Ministries course June 21-25. Designed for lay and ordained persons, the course does not require proficiency in the Spanish language since instruction will be in English.
The course will cover the Latino/Hispanic in the U.S., popular religious traditions, the church year celebrations, pastoral care, and Christian education. Topics such as cultural engagement, why Hispanic Episcopal mission, traditions of funding, using demographics, and values, authority and culture will also be explored.
Cost of the week - including housing and food on campus - is $600. A $100 non-refundable deposit is due by May 1. The class is a two credit hour equivalent course.
Case was named executive director of Province VII's Center for Hispanic Ministries - the only such provincial resource center in the Episcopal Church - last year. Prior to that appointment, he was vicar of San Francisco de Asis mission in Austin and executive director of El Buen Samaritano, the parish's outreach ministry, for nine years. Case, who grew up in the Philippines with missionary parents, has a multicultural view buttressed by diversity, culture, language and mission.
For more information, contact Case at jaime_case@sbcglobal.net or 512-477-2644.
