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Affirmation News: August 2003

Affirmation Names Male Co-Spokesperson

Welcome Ken Rowe

The National Affirmation Council is pleased to announce the selection of the Rev. Ken Rowe of San Francisco to the role of co-spokesperson at our Richmond, VA , meeting in April, 2003. Ken will join the Rev. Peggy Gaylord who is currently our other co-spokesperson.

Ken has had a long history with Affirmation and has taken a significant leadership role in many of our activities. He has advised our external strategy work in many areas and led the communications effort over the past few years. He has been Affirmation's delegate to the National Religious Leadership Roundtable. It meets under the auspices of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, which includes some of the leading theologians and activists in our movement across the denominations and the nation. With his strengths and background, he was an obvious choice for this prestigious and challenging role as co-spokesperson for Affirmation.

Ken was ordained an elder in the Minnesota Annual Conference in 1994. He earned his master of divinity at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC, in 1992. He served small rural parishes as well as an inner-city Minneapolis congregation, which included an on-site homeless shelter and food shelf. Since 1999, Ken has taken further academic training and worked in a variety of social issues and community building. A unit of the San Francisco United Way currently employs him in national justice work.

Source: This story appears in the Affirmation Newsletter, Spring 2003 (PDF Format, 295K).
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As an independent voice of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer people, Affirmation radically reclaims the compassionate and transforming gospel of Jesus Christ by relentlessly pursuing full inclusion in the Church as we journey with the Spirit in creating God's beloved community. We affirm a Gospel of respect, love, justice and mercy for all. Affirmation is an activist, all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization with no official ties to The United Methodist Church.