The Joy of Mission – Mission Sunday, Nov. 17
On Sunday, November 17, we welcome the Reverend Dr. Titus Presler to help us celebrate Mission Sunday, a day to consider the Joy of Mission: Building Companionship over Boundaries of Difference. Picking up on that Sunday’s apocalyptic gospel, he will preach at both services on the theme, ‘Dreadful Portents: Mission amid the World’s Turmoil.’ He will also lead the morning’s Adult Forum at 9:15.
Titus Presler is an Episcopal missiologist with experience in India and Zimbabwe. Most recently he was principal of Edwardes College in Peshawar, Pakistan. He is president of the Global Episcopal Mission Network (www.gemn.org) an association of mission activist dioceses, congregations, agencies, seminaries and individuals.
Educated at Harvard College(A.B), General Seminary (M.Div.), and Boston University (Th.D.), he was the academic dean of General Seminary and president of the Seminary of the Southwest. He has also taught at Episcopal Divinity School, Harvard Divinity School, Gaul Theological College in Harare, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He specializes in mission theology and gospel-culture interactions. Former rector of St. Peter’s Church in Cambridge, Mass., he was a researcher for the Global Anglicanism Project and a consultant for the Anglican Indaba Project. Earlier he worked with our Interim Rector Ed Miller at All Saints’ Church in Belmont, Mass.
An honorary canon in the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, Presler is a visiting researcher at Boston University School of Theology. He is vicar of St. Matthew’s Church in Enosburg, Vermont, and coordinates Green Mountain Witness, the evangelism initiative of the Diocese of Vermont. Among many publications, he is author of Horizons of Mission in the New Church’s Teaching Series, and Going Global with God: Reconciling Mission in a World of Difference. He blogs at TitusOnMission.wordpress.com and can be reached at: tituspresler@post.harvard.edu.