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Council post 
Date: July 30, 1999
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
E-mail: CWillis@oc.disciples.org
on the Web: http://www.disciples.org

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	ST. LOUIS (DNS) -- The Rev. Patrice L. Rosner, vice president and 
director, Congregational Ministries Department, Christian Board of 
Publication (CBP), has accepted a call to become the director of the 
Ministries in Christian Education of the National Council of Churches 
of Christ, effective January 2000.  Rosner  will continue in her 
position at CBP into December 1999.

	Ministries in Christian Education is a cluster of program ministries 
within the National Ministries Unit (NMU). It is the NCCC arena in 
which member communions work to develop ecumenical Christian 
education and congregational ministries. The committees within MCE 
address aspects of curriculum and leadership, racial/ethnic 
educational and congregational ministries, special learning settings 
and special learning needs, and family and age-level ministries. The 
director serves on the management team of the NMU, as well on other 
NCCC committees and inter-unit task groups. 

	In her 22 years at Christian Board of Publication, Rosner has been 
instrumental in the development of curriculum and congregational 
program resources for CBP and its partners in cooperative publishing 
ventures. Her curriculum development involvements include: Bible 
Discovery, Journey Through the Bible, Discipleship Alive, Living the 
Word, Children's Bible Series, Vacation Venture Series, and The 
StoryTeller Series. In 1996 she was named editorial director of Bible 
Quest, a cooperative curriculum for all ages that includes 10 
publishing partners. Rosner coordinated more than 130 leader 
development events and editorial projects, and recruited and 
supervised more than 200 curriculum writers. She authored the book 
Consider the Children: Planning for Young Children during Worship.

	Since October 1998 Rosner has served as the convener of CBP's 
dismantling racism team, in participation with the efforts of the 
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to dismantle institutional 
racism. She is a member of the Christian Theological Seminary board 
of trustees and a member of the executive board of the Association of 
Professors and Researchers in Religious Education. She is a former 
president of the Association of Christian Church Educators. Her 
community involvement in St. Louis includes being elected to three 
three-year terms as a member of the Pattonville Board of Education.  
Currently she serves as vice president of the board. She is a deacon 
in her congregation, Overland Christian Church, St. Louis, Mo. 

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