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Newsletter of Berkeley Divinity School
In this issue: The Class of 2010........................1 From the Dean’s Desk..................2 Missions Across the Globe...........3 Capital Campaign....................... 4 Annual Fund Report....................5 In Memoriam............................. 6 St. Hilda’s House........................ 8
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October 2010 Vol. 2, No. 1
Class of 2010: Focusing on faithfulness
L
ast May, fifteen Berkeley seniors celebrated their graduation as they prepared to move into a variety of ministries— from traditional parish settings to school chaplaincy, and from Cathedral-based work with Hispanic and border communities to clergy residencies funded through the Lilly Foundation. While the interests and calls of the Class of 2010 are immensely diverse, graduates share one thing in common: a love of God and a desire to transmit the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In his sermon, Dean Joseph Britton alluded to Charles Merrill Smith’s How to Become a Bishop without Being Religious. As his title suggests, Smith’s tongue-in-cheek work illustrates the best of what a call to lay and ordained ministry yields by depicting some of the worst. In the end, he tips his hand as he asks us to remember that the first and greatest commandment is not to love the Church but to love God. Dean Britton charged the Class of 2010 thus: “Don’t set your sights on
being successful; set them on being faithful.” As a senior class gift, the seniors presented a check for $4,125 to Berkeley, as well as two appropriately scaled candlesticks to use at the weekly Community Eucharist in Marquand Chapel. Seniors also joined with the Berkeley community to provide Hebrew Bibles and Greek New Testaments for classroom use by MAR graduate Joseph Ayeh, who was returning to St. Nicholas Seminary in Cape Coast, Ghana, to teach Bible.
Nora Tubbs Tisdale, Joseph Ayeh ’10, Alfred Tisdale
The Class of 2010 with faculty and staff before the Commencement Evensong