Bishop's Mission Corps
The Bishops Mission corps is a Youth Program created by the Episcopal Diocese in Mississippi. Our purpose is to educate college aged adults about service and mission, as well as providing a means for vocational reflection. Visit our website for more information.
As always if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. You may send an email to jhcarter@olemiss.edu
In the summer of 2006 a group of seven people (six young adults in their early 20s and a priest), at the initiative of the Bishop of Mississippi, spent forty days together at the Gray Center near Canton, Mississippi, living as an experimental Christian community informed by the insights of Benedictine wisdom and tradition. Each day involved intentional times of prayer, manual work, study time, silence and rest.
There were two major projects:
1] Camp Caritas, a summer camp program for the children of prisoners;
2] regular visits to Yazoo City at the edge of the Mississippi Delta, looking at the opportunities and challenges facing many people in Mississippi, and considering how the Church might best serve in that context.
Out of that forty day experience came a plan for how the Bishop's Mission Corps might develop in the future. There are very many economically disadvantaged cities in Mississippi, struggling with a variety of social problems.
COSTS: The Diocese of Mississippi subsidizes most of the costs associated with the Bishop's Mission Corps, an indication of the extent to which the Bishop and the Diocese consider it to be a very significant new endeavor in our mutual life and work. It is important that this opportunity and the resources allocated to it are used as wisely as possible. There is a particular concern that applicants and participants are committed to this venture, and do not pull out at the last minute as other opportunities for the summer arise. Therefore, applicants are asked to contribute $250 with their application, payable to the Diocese of Mississippi. Any applicants who are not accepted as participants will have their $250 returned immediately; otherwise, the $250 is non-returnable.
For further information please email Rev. Tim Jones at tim@saintpaulscorinth.org or telephone him at (662) 286-2922
APPLICATIONS: Applicants need to send a letter to: Bishop's Mission Corps, PO Box 1225, Corinth, MS 38835. Please download and complete the application form provided .
