<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/winter-2012/taking-ministry-education-inner-city.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Taking a Ministry of Education to the Inner City</title><excerpt>Preston Hannibal ’71 avidly watched his father at work as an Episcopal priest and chaplain of his primary school.“I was fascinated with his job,” Preston says. He also admired the chaplain at UCLA, whose vital ministry clearly made an impact on students.“During the civil rights movement, I was surrounded by faithful men and women who lived out their faith daily, and I wanted to love Jesus the way they did,” Preston says. He earned a degree in sociology at Westmont, graduated from Bexley Hall Seminary in New York, and entered the Episcopal priesthood intent on becoming a college chaplain.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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