Mary Foster ParmerMary Foster Parmer is director of Invite Welcome Connect at the Beecken Center in the School of Theology of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She is past director of the Gathering of Leaders, a national leadership gathering of young piscopal clergy. Parmer has served as lay deputy to four General Conventions of the Episcopal Church, and she currently serves on the Task Force on Clergy Leadership Formation in Small Churches. Read More Read Less