We have a special announcement about Alvin Blount’s ministry with us in East Tennessee.
If you would like to donate in honor of Alvin’s work with us, please donate to the Becoming Beloved Community fund.
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Alvin Blount:
Greetings, my East Tennessee diocesan family. With a heavy heart, I come to you with news of my future. I will be leaving my post as your diocesan archivist and head of becoming beloved community initiatives to return to Georgia. My home.
I have been offered and accepted a position at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where I will serve as a reference and instruction librarian. Georgia State is a public research university and home to around 54,000 students on six campuses, including downtown Atlanta and five suburbs throughout the metro Atlanta area. I am excited about this opportunity to become a faculty librarian at one of the most innovative and diverse universities in the nation.
I cannot thank you enough for supporting my work in our archives, the Storytelling Initiative, the Virtual Library Resources and programing associated with Becoming Beloved Community.
Bishop Brian Cole:
At the beginning of 2021, Alvin Blount accepted a two year appointment to serve as our Becoming Beloved Community Initiative Director. He is leaving us a few months shy of that, but he has done great work for us. And so, join me in giving thanks for Alvin’s work in a variety of ways. He led pilgrimages to Selma and Trail of Tears, collected storytelling with a variety of folks, curated all kinds of resources, was a blessing to the staff and to you. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Alvin, for your good work. If you want to express this in a tangible way, consider giving a gift in Alvin’s honor to Becoming Beloved Community Fund here at the Diocese of East Tennessee. We’ll show you how to do that at the end of this video.
Again, Alvin has been a blessing to us. We will miss him. But we are celebrating this amazing appointment to Georgia State, to their Clarkston campus and the work he will be doing there. We are proud of the work he’s done here and we’re proud to continue to be associated with him as he leaves us for Georgia.
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