wfn.org | Task Force on "Changing Families" is Named

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14-June-1999 
99223 
 
    Task Force on "Changing Families" is Named 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-A 12-member task force has been appointed by the Advisory 
Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) to develop a General Assembly 
policy statement on "changing families" in the United States. 
 
    The study and policy development was authorized by the 1997 General 
Assembly.  It charged the task force "to examine the issue of changing 
families and changing social structures that affect families, particularly 
focusing on the effects of these changes on children." 
 
    The goal of the group's work will be to develop principles and 
recommendations "to strengthen the church's ministry to families in both 
the church and society in the 21st century. 
 
    The Rev. Belinda Curry, ACSWP associate for policy development, told 
the Presbyterian News Service, "We have set a target date of the 2002 
General Assembly to bring this report."   The task force's first meeting 
will be sometime this fall, she added. 
 
    Members of the "Changing Families" task force are: the Rev. Nancy 
Becker, a member of Wabash Valley Presbytery and the ACSWP; the Rev. 
Barbara Gaddis, a marriage and family therapist from North Central Iowa 
Presbytery; the Rev. Jeffrey Light, a curriculum writer from Northern 
Kansas Presbytery; Amanda Miller, a child advocate from Hudson River 
Presbytery; the Rev. Clarence Page, a certified clinical pastoral educator 
from New Harmony Presbytery; Sarah Reyes, a candidate for the ministry from 
Stockton Presbytery; the Rev. Marnie Abraham Russell, a lawyer and child 
custody hearing officer from Redstone Presbytery; Lois Stroman, an ACSWP 
member from Savannah Presbytery; Jeanne Choy Tate, a PhD. candidate in 
religion and psychology from San Francisco Presbytery; Bernice Thompson, a 
clinical therapist and social worker from Giddings-Lovejoy Presbytery; 
William J. (Beau) Weston, associate professor of sociology at Centre 
College in Kentucky, Transylvania Presbytery; and the Rev. Robert H. White, 
synod executive for the Synod of the Northeast. 
 
    The Rev. Robert J. Hunter, professor of pastoral theology at Candler 
School of Theology of Emory University in Atlanta, will serve as consultant 
for the task force.  ACSWP staff services will be provided by Curry and 
Bonnie M. Hoff. 

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