Part 2: Keynote Address by the Rev. Ethan Lowery My first call out of seminary - where I still am - was a campus ministry restart. The ministry had a thirty year history and was shared between three churches, but it had essentially folded during COVID. I had a board that had no idea what their job was. I had one returning student who was so burned out from holding the ministry together that she was about to quit. I learned that 80% of the people in my three sponsoring congr

Excerpt of the Keynote Address by The Rev. Ethan Lowery My name is Ethan Lowery. I'm an Episcopal priest and campus minister in Fredericksburg, Virginia, about an hour south of Washington DC. And before I was ordained. . . I was a youth minister just over the hills in Orinda, I was a seminarian at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and I was Mary Lim's intern at Genesis from 2018 to 2020. . . My story with Genesis started twelve years ago - I was an Episcopal Service