Louisville Institute: Pastoral Study Project Grant Program

Applicant: James Ross Smith

Submitted: September 1, 2013

Part II. Project Summary

The Body of Christ in Times Square:

Creating a Spiritual Home for the Latino Community in an Anglo-Catholic Parish

I.The Question: What does, and what will, an authentic Latino-American Anglicanism look like?

a.Living up to a vision of “catholicity”: a church that is authentically Anglican and authentically Latino, authentically catholic and authentically reformed

b. Using the parish’s history, traditions, and “natural resources” to build bridges to the neighborhood’s Latino community.

c. Service to the Latino community: immigration and education

d. Learning from the Latino community: service, worship and celebration

II. Getting to know our neighbors: the Latino Community in Times Square

a. Study, reading, and research

b. Meeting my neighbors in church and at work

c. Spanish-language study

d. Learning from the models: Latino ministry in the Episcopal Church,

parishes that work

e. Learning from the experts: the sociologists, the non-profits, and the school

f. Learning how to teach: Culture & language, teaching English-language learners.

III. Putting theory into practice

a. Immigration clinic

b. Recruiting volunteers: conversation partners

c. Teaching English-language learners

d. Worship: Spanish-language Mass; healing service; preaching in Spanish—

seeing what works, seeing what’s needed, learning from those who have

gone before

e. Integration of congregations and communities: celebration, culture, art and music