Save the Date

Meaningful Conversations*
Thursday, April 26th
6:30-8:30 p.m.

with guest speaker
Bill Bolling
Founder and Executive Director, Atlanta Community Food Bank

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall
435 Peachtree Street NE

*A series of inspiring speakers who inform our thinking on today’s issues that nourish our spiritual and mental health.

Click here to read why Bill Bolling was named the 2012 "Georgian of the Year" by Georgia Trend Magazine.

TACC would like to extend a special thank you to all the folks that contributed to our 2011 Annual Fund Campaign.  Because of your generosity we were able to hire a CPE Director to expand CPE offerings and train more students, sponsor a summer unit of CPE in Kingston, Jamaica (see previous post), and complete an ambitious five-year strategic plan that ensures TACC is self-sustaining, abreast of community needs, and a good steward of its resources.  Without the effort and gifts of so many we would never realize our mission.  Thank you!

Meaningful Conversations

Thanking for attending the first of our new speaker series with Rev. John Thomas.  Please stayed tuned for our next event in April 2012.

Coming of Age in the Age of Technology

Thursday, October 27th

with guest speaker

 The Rev. John Taliaferro Thomas

Head of School, St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School

Today's young people are coming of age in a time in which technology brings incredible advances yet significant disadvantages.  Rev. Thomas will discuss this tension through a spiritual lens of formation, sacred space, and communion.  As a former chaplain, priest, and now Head of school, Rev. Thomas is a strong proponent for educating and developing students in mind, body, and spirit and he will invite us to creatively engage the young people in our lives.  Join us for a delightful and educational evening.

TACC Launches First-ever CPE Program in Jamaica

In 2009 The Rev. Dr. Marjorie Lewis, a faculty member at United Theological College of the West Indies (UTCWI) in Kingston, came to TACC to take her first unit of CPE. Marjorie loved her CPE experience so much that that when she became President of UTCWI last year she was determined to provide CPE to her students. Kingston has a growing urban context with many of the issues of poverty, homelessness and mental illness that are similar to the urban context in which TACC’s CPE students work in Atlanta. Although CPE has never been done in the West Indies Marjorie knew that clinical placements in Kingston would be rich places of learning for her students. And so TACC sent out the word that a CPE Supervisor was needed to go to Jamaica. Soon Rev. Deryck Durston, Associate Director of the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education called to volunteer his services. On June 1, 2011, the first unit of CPE in the West Indies began on the campus of UTCWI. There are 7 students in the group and each of them are providing pastoral care in 5 clinical sites which include a psychiatric hospital, a residential care facility for babies and children whose parents have died with AIDS and other outreach services to marginalized adults and children. The unit will go through the summer and Deryck is already reporting that the students are eager and grateful for the experience.