Jaime Briceno, our Recruiter and Digital Missioner, attended the Global Mission 
Conference held April 11-13 at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. The theme of the conference was Mission Connects Us: God, World, Church. “Mission begins with God . . . and reconciliation is the heart of God’s mission,” said keynoter Robert Heaney, director of Virginia Seminary’s Center for Anglican Communion Studies (CACS).
At GEMN’s Annual Meeting, Jaime Briceno was elected to the 12-member Board of Directors. (The new Board elected its officers: president, Titus Presler of the Diocese Vermont and Bridges to Pakistan; vice president, Grace Burton-Edwards of the Diocese of Atlanta; secretary, Suzanne Peterson of the Diocese of Ohio; and treasurer, David Kendall-Sperry of the Diocese of Ohio).
Established in 1995, GEMN is the Episcopal Church’s one freestanding network of global mission activist dioceses, individuals, organizations and seminaries. Cosponsoring the 2018 conference, in addition to the Center for Anglican Communion StudiesCACS, were the Diocese of Virginia, the Diocese of Ohio, and St. Stephen’s Church, Richmond, Virginia. Learn more abour GEMN and the GEMN conference here: http://www.gemn.org/2018-conference-highlights-vts/