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ill you seek and serve Christ in all
(Book of Common Prayer, p. 305)
This familiar question from the
Baptismal Covenant reminds us
that, as missionaries in the 21st
century, our loving service to the
world involves encountering
Jesus as much as it involves
bringing Jesus. Through missionary service, particularly in and
among the needy and vulnerable,
we meet the Risen Christ and
experience the transformation of
our own souls even as we seek to
bring healing and transformation
to a hurting world. The Missionary
Society strives to make missionary
service available and practical for
as many Episcopalians as possible.
Our goal is that missionary ser-
vice be a normative experience for
Episcopalians within a generation.
The General Convention budget
for the current triennium
challenges us to make missionary
service even more widely available,
particularly to young people. In
response, the Missionary Society
is on track to double the size of the
Young Adult Service Corps – our
volunteer team of young-adult
overseas missionaries – by the
end of the triennium. Over the
course of the first half of the
triennium, we’ve sent 45 youngadult missionaries into the world,
and have expanded the cultural
and socioeconomic diversity of