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17-February-2000 
00076 
 
    Dua Steps Down as Women's Ministries' Head 
    for New Mexico Post 
 
    by Evan Silverstein 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - On Wednesday, the National Ministries Division (NMD) said 
goodbye to the Rev. Barbara Dua, associate director for the denomination's 
Women's Ministries Program Area. She will soon depart for a position as 
executive secretary of the New Mexico Council of Churches in Albuquerque, 
N.M. 
 
     "Barbara has given unselfishly of her talents and resources," said the 
Rev. Curtis A. Kearns Jr., the NMD director. "Her contributions to the 
division and the council will certainly be missed. We wish her Godspeed, 
and say a heartfelt 'thanks' for the ministry she has provided." 
 
    Dua assumed her current post as leader of the program area in April 
1997. Prior to joining the national staff she served as associate pastor at 
First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, N.C., and had previously served as 
pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Wooster, Ohio. She was also 
campus minister at the College of Wooster. 
 
    "It has been great serving with you...and getting to know you," Dua 
said when her departure was announced during the NMD meeting. 
 
    Her stay as associate director was not always pleasant, especially when 
it came to matters involving the National Network of Presbyterian College 
Women (NNPCW), which Dua oversaw. Conservative critics had charged during 
the 1998 General Assembly that the Network's programs and resources 
violated denominational policies and the church constitution in the areas 
of ordination, human sexuality and theology. A move then to eliminate 
NNPCW's funding failed, and a task force was appointed to recommend 
corrective measures. 

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