Doug Bailey - Sunday, October 16, 2005 (streaming audio)


Doug Bailey spoke to the St. Luke's community during a forum on Sunday, October 26, 2005 on the topic of urban outreach ministry. An exciting and dynamic speaker, Doug identifies the welfare of the poor and marginalized in our midst as indicators - God's messengers - of the health or disease of the broader community and culture...

Doug Bailey spoke to the St. Luke's community during a forum on Sunday, October 26, 2005 on the topic of urban outreach ministry. An exciting and dynamic speaker, Doug identifies the welfare of the poor and marginalized in our midst as indicators - God's messengers - of the health or disease of the broader community and culture. Formerly the rector of Calvary Church (Memphis), Doug is presently Executive Director of the Center for Urban Ministry, Inc. in Winston-Salem and Associate Professor of Urban Ministry at the Divinity School at Wake Forest University. Memphis' Calvary Church was a parish in decline upon Doug's arrival in 1978. In tandem with efforts to revitalize the city after the urban crises of the 1960s and 1970s, Doug worked to bring life and soul to this downtown Memphis parish. Major emphasis was placed on congregational development and growth, as well as the formation of imaginative urban ministries. In those two decades, Doug founded or co-founded such wide-ranging and vital ministries as the Calvary Street Ministry for the homeless, the Samaritan Counseling Center, Teen Job Services employment program, and Calvary and the Arts noonday concert series. Under Doug Bailey's rectorship, Calvary Church became the fastest growing Episcopal congregation in the Diocese, and is recognized as one of the most dynamic and thriving Episcopal churches in America.


Posted: Sun - October 23, 2005 at 11:54 PM          

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