Maryann is excited to be a shepherd for EPF’s Young Adult Delegation to General Convention in 2015. Since then she has become even more involved with EPF through the young adult retreat and the Urban Pilgrimage. She is the Executive Site Director for Urban Pilgrimage to help sustain existing Urban Pilgrimage sites and build up new leaders to create new sites for the pilgrimages.
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Do you need some EPF brochures, bumper stickers or t-shirts? Talk to me. I also handle memberships and donations at EPF. I have been on staff since 2012 and a member since 2006. I am so blessed to work with the wonderful folks that support the Episcopal Peace Fellowship. This has been a wonderful opportunity for me to learn and grow and to continue my activism.
Ph: 312-922-8628
Through the years, I have served as the VTS chapter convener, on EPF’s first Young Adult Presence at General Convention and EPF’s National Executive Council. In 2012 I became the Executive Director following in the footsteps of the courageous and prophetic Jackie Lynn. I am certainly living proof that Episcopal Peace Fellowship truly does support, train and lift up young adult peacemakers. I am incredibly grateful for the flexible schedule that allows me to better balance my priesthood with my motherhood.
On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million black slaves in the United States and recasts the Civil War as a fight against slavery.
The proclamation was a presidential order and not a law passed by Congress, so Lincoln then pushed for an antislavery amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ensure its permanence. With the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865, slavery was eliminated throughout America (although blacks would face another century of struggle before they truly began to gain equal rights).
Lincoln’s handwritten draft of the final Emancipation Proclamation was destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 1871. Today, the original official version of the document is housed in the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
