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Date: 13-Jun-96 
 
96237                   Notes about People 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
     On May 26, Teri Thomas, general presbyter for National Capital 
Presbytery, and the Rev. John "Jack" Wineman, executive presbyter for 
Winnebago Presbytery, were married in Washington, D.C. 
     In keeping with the middle governing body theme, the wedding was 
performed by the Rev.  Roger Harp, executive presbyter for Homestead 
Presbytery, and the Rev. Jill Hudson, executive presbyter for Whitewater 
Valley Presbytery. 
     Wineman has resigned from the Winnebago Presbytery post and the 
newlyweds will make their home in the Washington area. 
 
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     The Rev. Mark Wendorf, associate for social welfare organizations in 
the National Minstries Division in Louisville and executive director of the 
Presbyterian Health, Education and Welfare Association (PHEWA), has 
announced his resignation, effective July 9, in order to accept a call as 
assistant professor for urban ministry at McCormick Theological Seminary in 
Chicago. 
     Wendorf has headed PHEWA for the past five years.  Prior to that he 
was an urban pastor in Cincinnati.  In a letter to the PHEWA board of 
directors, Wendorf insisted that his resignation was unrelated to recent 
criticism of PHEWA. "You know me well enough to know that I do not run from 
any struggle," he wrote. 
     Wendorf cited the opportunity to return to Chicago, where he began his 
career in urban ministry, his love for the Chicago Cubs, and the chance "to 
immerse myself in urban ministry and to create an urban ministry program" 
as the reasons for his move. 

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