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12-July-1996 
 
                    Fill-in Leaders Announced 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Outgoing General Assembly Council (GAC) executive director 
the Rev. James D. Brown has announced appointments to two vacancies created 
by actions of the recent 208th General Assembly in Albuquerque. 
 
     Brown, whose confirmation to a second four-year term as executive 
director was defeated by the Assembly, announced his appointment of the 
Rev. Frank Diaz as acting executive director, effective immediately.  For 
the past seven years Diaz has been associate director for GAC operations. 
 
     Brown's term expires Sept. 16.  The GAC Personnel Subcommittee has 
launched a search for an interim executive director, who will start work 
Oct. 1. 
 
     Brown has also named Gwen Crawley, who retired last year, as interim 
director of the GAC's Worldwide Ministries Division (WMD).  Crawley 
temporarily fills the post vacated by the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, who was 
elected General Assembly stated clerk in Albuquerque.  She begins her new 
assignment July 22. 
 
     At the time of her retirement, Crawley was the associate director for 
global service and witness in WMD. 
 
     The GAC will name a search committee when it meets in September to 
recommend a new division director, who must be elected by the Council and 
confirmed by the General Assembly. 

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