By saying yes to The Diocese of Atlanta pilgrimage to Ghana in March 2023, Jailynn Smith traveled more than 10,000 miles round trip in two weeks that changed her life.
Pathways Profiles: Jailynn Smith
Pathways Profiles: Jacob Clifton Albritton
At the 2023 Pride Eucharist sermon at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Albritton described themself growing up Catholic with plans for the priesthood. Coming out shook their faith.
Pathways Profiles: The Rev. Isaías A. Rodríguez
Every Hispanic clergy person in The Diocese of Atlanta can be traced to Isaías A. Rodríguez, because he recruited them.
Pathways Profiles: Karol Kimmell
Karol Kimmell, All Saints’ Atlanta’s Director of Children and Youth Choirs for 26 years, believes that children belong in every facet of worship and community.
Pathways Profiles: Hispanic Ministries
New opportunities are significant partly because US Census data show that Hispanic people in the United States are leaving the Catholic church and becoming religiously unaffiliated.
Pathways Profiles: Rev. Dr. Horace Griffin
Before being called into the Episcopal priesthood in 2005, Horace L. Griffin served as a Baptist minister. During his college days, he wrote and preached sermons against homosexuality.
Pathways Profiles: Harry Groce
The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta and volunteer Harry Groce. Only 28, he brings a lifetime of international travel witnessing the power of relationships across borders.
Pathways Profiles: The College for Congregational Development
Parishes considering CCD should contact The Office of Congregational Vitality to confirm they are ready to make the commitment to vitality through CCD.
Pathways Profiles: Bliss Peterson
Bliss Peterson was terrified that she would say or do the wrong thing to someone who grieved. But pastoral care training was required to become a licensed lay minister.