Canterbury Club

The Canterbury Club gathers college students from Berry, Shorter, and Georgia Highlands College for weekly meetings throughout the academic year.  The student-designed program of activities offers a creative mix of opportunities for worship, service, and fellowship.  Canterbury Club is a community of faith in action, always open to new members and new ideas.  Contact: The Reverend Janice Bracken Wright, (706) 291-9111 or janicewright001@bellsouth.net.

APRIL CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

Sunday, April 11                      Canterbury Club t-shirt sales           before 10:00 service St. Peter’s

                                                          &  Lunch after church     

 

Tuesday, April 27                    Dinner at Janice’s house                  6:00 pm

 

MARTHA BERRY WAS AN EPISCOPALIAN:

Long overlooked as one of the smallest Religion in Life groups on the Berry College campus, the Canterbury Club is celebrating its unique heritage with a new campaign sure to raise a few questions, if not eyebrows.

On Tuesday, February 23, students, faculty and staff passing through Krannert Center from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. were greeted by a simple but important message on t-shirts and a large burgundy banner:  Martha Berry was an Episcopalian.

Indeed, Martha McChesney Berry (b. October 7, 1865) was baptized at St. Peter’s Church on April 2, 1881, and confirmed here on October 29, 1882.  The Episcopal faith of her family and upbringing helped shape both her vocation as an educator and the direction her schools would take. 

While the Berry Schools were never directly affiliated with the Episcopal Church, we find that Anglican influences abound—from the architecture of the three chapels to the guiding principles of educating the head, heart and hands.

Academic excellence, opportunities for worship, and service to others in the community continue as hallmarks of the Berry approach to college life.  Canterbury Club members exemplify the type of students in which Martha Berry would have taken great pride.

And so, Canterbury Club members celebrate our kinship with the college’s founder and guiding light.  Perhaps others will see our shirts and ask, “Just what is an Episcopalian?”  We’ll stand a little bit taller as we answer!

If you would like to show your support for our Canterbury Club members by wearing the special “Martha Berry was an Episcopalian” t-shirt, you may order one (or more) through the church office: $15 each, please specify S M L or XL.

 

Janice Bracken Wright†