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GA99126 
25-June-1999 
 
 
         Assembly Vote on Mission Coordination Committee 
  Report Continues National Network of Presbyterian College Women 
 
 
FORT WORTH- After thorough discussion that involved a variety of opinions, 
the 211th General Assembly voted to concur with recommendations from a 
special General Assembly Council (GAC) review committee  and the Assembly 
Committee on Mission Coordination to continue the National Network of 
Presbyterian College Women (NNPCW) with some reservations.  There will be 
more guidance and more opportunities for review and accountability. Funding 
will be provided and the network will be staffed, but controversial study 
materials will no longer be printed or circulated.    New resources will be 
made available.    
     The Rev. Douglas Oldenburg, moderator of the 210th General Assembly, 
who served on the review committee, said in introductory remarks to the 
report, "We need to hear our young college women, who are women of faith, 
struggling at times with their faith just as we did in college."   
     Marilyn Washburn, a commissioner from Greater Atlanta Presbytery, said 
during the discussion: "They want supervision and support.  Let's give it 
to them and then give it to our sons and then to our sons and daughters 
together."  The network will be lodged in the Women's Ministry Program Area 
until a campus ministry study is completed. 
 
                 MIDDLE GOVERNING BODY RELATIONS 
 
     The Assembly agreed with the Assembly Committee on Mission 
Coordination to express its gratitude to the Special Committee on Middle 
Governing Body Relationships for their work in exploring the patterns of 
relationships among governing bodies and for their creative approach to new 
possibilities.  They agreed to instruct the GAC and the Committee on the 
Office of the General Assembly (COGA) to proceed with the consultation 
process that examines and encourages relationships within and among the 
General Assembly, synods and presbyteries, and to bring a report and any 
necessary or desirable recommendations to the 213th General Assembly 
(2001).    
     An amendment was proposed and defeated that would have deleted a 
comment about the feasibility of moving to a three governing body system.   
 
                  COMPENSATION POLICY GUIDELINES 
 
     A recommendation to create an Advisory Committee on Churchwide 
Compensation was approved.  The committee shall report annually through 
COGA on matters related to churchwide compensation management.   
     In other business, the Assembly  dealt with overtures and 
commissioners' resolutions that had been referred to the Mission 
Coordination Committee.  An overture from the Presbytery of Missouri Union 
on social policy witness was disapproved.  Overture 99-59 from the 
Presbytery of Palisades regarding access to resources for evangelism and 
new church development was referred to the GAC.  A commissioners' 
resolution on review of the Women's Ministries Program area was also 
referred to the GAC.  The Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy will 
receive a referral on a commissioners' resolution regarding the 
denomination's policy statement on "Problem Pregnancies and Abortion."     
 
Jane Hines 

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