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Intensive Hispanic Ministries Course June 20-24, 2005

Participants in 2004 Session

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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 second annual Hispanic Ministries course June 20-24. Designed for lay and ordained persons, the course does not require proficiency in the Spanish language since instruction will be in English. The course is identical to an elective class that Case teaches to seminary students.

The Diocese of Texas will award eight CEUs (theological/academic) upon completion of this course.

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, the importance of Hispanic Episcopal mission, traditions of funding, 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. For more information, email Jaime Case or phone him at 512.477.2644.

Since its founding in 1980, the Center for Hispanic Ministries has advocated for and supported ministry and evangelism to Hispanics. The Center is the only such provincial resource in the Episcopal Church.
Case considers himself a TCK (Third Culture Kid) who was raised by missionary parents from the U.S. in the Philippines and then returned to this country for college study. A 1994 graduate of the Seminary of the Southwest, Case is executive director of the center, Deputy of Hispanic Ministry in the Diocese of Texas and a member of the seminary's associated faculty. Prior to becoming executive director, 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.