The Fellowship of South Carolina Bishops has scheduled a “Listening Post” to hear the concerns and hopes for public education of Allendale residents.
The gathering, organized by the Fellowship’s Public Education Initiative, is scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 11 in the James Brandt Building Auditorium, 398 Barnwell Highway, Allendale.
Their goal is to encourage people of faith to take part in building the best education system possible for Allendale. All are invited to share ideas with the bishops.
The Fellowship of South Carolina Bishops is a special ecumenical relationship among churches led by bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal-Zion, Christian Methodist Episcopal, Episcopal, Lutheran, Roman Catholic
The bishops collectively have been advocating for public education since April 2014, when they issued a joint pastoral letter pledging “our commitment to support the full flourishing of public education in South Carolina.” They expressed concern after the state Supreme Court in November 2017 dismissed a landmark school equity lawsuit, filed in 1993 to force the General Assembly to improve educational opportunities in the state’s poorest public schools.
For more information, contact the Rev. Susan Heath, coordinator of The Fellowship of South Carolina Bishops’ Public Education Initiative, at sheath@edusc.org or 803-771-7800, Extension 108.
