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25-July-1996 
 
 
 
96266         GAC Executive Committee Okays Formula  
                        For GAC Committees 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Acting quickly in response to the 208th General Assembly's 
decision earlier this month to expand the size of the General Assembly 
Council (GAC), the Council's executive committee has approved a plan for a 
corresponding increase in the size of the GAC's committees. 
 
     The Assembly approved a recommendation from its Quadrennial Committee 
on Review to expand the membership of the Council by adding an additional 
25 seats designated for presbytery representatives.  Those new seats plus 
the addition of the moderator of Presbyterian Women (PW) as a full member, 
a move that was approved by a majority of the presbyteries during the past 
year, increases voting membership on the GAC to 97 persons.   
 
     Thus, beginning with its Sept. 25-28 meeting, the Council will include 
the current and two immediate past moderators of the General Assembly, 16 
members from synods (one from each), 50 members from presbyteries (up from 
25, on a rotating basis), 25 at-large members, two youth/young adult 
members and the PW moderator. 
 
     To incorporate the new members, the executive committee voted to 
increase membership on the executive committee from seven to nine persons; 
the three division committees -- Worldwide Ministries, National Ministries 
and Congregational Ministries -- from 15 to 21 persons; the Corporate and 
Administrative Services Committee from seven to nine persons; and the 
internal audit committee from three to five persons. 
 
     GAC liaison assignments to other entities will remain the same as 
currently: one person each to the Board of Pensions, the Presbyterian 
Church (U.S.A.) Foundation and the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation; and 
three persons each to the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy and 
the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly. 
 
     The current General Assembly moderator is not assigned to a committee 
or as a liaison. 
 
     The GAC's nominating committee meets July 25-26 in Chicago to put 
together a proposed slate of committee and liaison assignments for the 
Council to approve in September. 
 
     Also during its July 17 conference call meeting, the executive 
committee 
 
          heard the proposed time-line for selection of an interim 
executive director of the GAC 
          concurred with GAC chair Youngil Cho's appointment of the Rev. 
Frank Diaz as acting 
          executive director between now and the hiring of the interim 
executive director 
          reviewed the plans for election of search committees for a new 
installed GAC executive 
          director, to succeed the Rev. James D. Brown,  and director for 
the Worldwide 
          Ministries Division, to succeed the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, who 
was elected stated 
          clerk 
          heard Cho's initial plans for a celebration to honor Brown's four 
years of service as 
          GAC executive director -- the celebration will take place Sept. 
28 during the GAC 
          meeting. 

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