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Episcopal News Service. February 19, 1999 [99-009K]
Scott T. Evans has become the first lay person to serve as president of Province IV of the Episcopal Church. She's a member of St. Stephen's Church in Durham, North Carolina, and seven times has been a deputy to General Convention from the Diocese of North Carolina Evans was elected to a three-year term as vice-president of Province IV in 1997 when Bishop Edward L. Salmon of South Carolina was elected president.
Due to health issues, Salmon recently resigned. Evans will fill his unexpired term until June 2000.
Her vice-president post will be filled by election at the summer meeting of the Province IV Synod at Kanuga. According to national canons, because the president is a lay person, the vice-president must be a bishop and will serve on the Presiding Bishop's Council of Advice.
James Kelsey was elected bishop of Northern Michigan on the first ballot during the diocesan convention February 6. The two other candidates, who finished far behind in the voting, were Katherine Glenn, vicar of the Episcopal Mission in San Luis Valley in the Diocese of Colorado, and Meredith Hunt, canon at the cathedral in the Diocese of Michigan.
Kelsey, who is ministry development coordinator for the Diocese of Northern Michigan, is a graduate of the General Theological Seminary. He served in the Dioceses of Vermont and Oklahoma before arriving in 1989 in Northern Michigan, where he established a diocesan-wide strategy for cluster ministries.
He will succeed retiring Bishop Tom Ray. Kelsey and his wife, Mary, have three children ranging in age from 16 to 20.
Kelsey will be consecrated July 24 in Marquette.
The Episcopal Church Foundation has announced that Fred Osborn has joined the Foundation as its director of gift planning. He will be responsible for providing leadership in the Foundation's program of philanthropic services for all churches and Episcopal entites. Osborn's previous position was as director of development for the Nature Conservancy of New York.
He is a seasoned lay professional having worked in financial administration for the Dioceses of Massachusetts, Maine and Connecticut and as director of the former Office of Planned Giving at the Church Center. He was the first director of the Foundation's national support program for planned giving.