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This is an updated Sunday report.  Please replace the current one.

	This is Jerry Van Marter of the Presbyterian News Service with news from
the 212th General Assembly for Sunday, June 25.

	Following the euphoria of last night’s election of Syngman Rhee as
moderator of the 212th General Assembly, more than 9,000 Presbyterians
trooped into the Long Beach Convention Center Arena this morning for the
opening worship and communion service, which included the commissioning of a
new class of Presbyterian missionaries to places of ministry around the
world.
“For Such a Time as This” was the title of the sermon preached by outgoing
moderator Freda Gardner on Jesus’ words found in Luke 19: 37-44, in which he
warns the people not to miss the hour of their visitation by God.  “Perhaps
we have been born for such a time as this,” Gardner said. “Surely we do not
want to miss the time of our visitation. It could be the time when our sons
and daughters are prophesying, and old women and men are dreaming dreams and
young men and women are seeing visions.  Such has been promised.”  Gardner
asked, “Where is God in such a time as this?  At one end of a stretcher
carrying yet another young person lost to the tragedy of lonely, ugly
streets.  Leading a chain of pre-schoolers to safety from gunfire. Standing
next to the one writing a check for disaster relief.  Among the children
climbing a mountain of garbage to search for something that will sustain
life for one more day.”

	Meanwhile, on a morning more suited to a picnic in the park, 125 supporters
of fuller inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons in
the life of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) gathered in a palm-lined plaza
outside the Long Beach Convention Center Arena to press their cause.  At the
conclusion of the 90-minute rally -- sponsored by Soulforce, an ecumenical
gay rights group – 81 of the protestors, strolled parade-like into waiting
Long Beach Police vans after symbolically blocking an access road into the
Arena and getting arrested.  The rally and arrests were carefully
choreographed so as not to disrupt the worship service and the event outside
was over and done before the benediction was pronounced inside. This was the
third and smallest Soulforce event this summer.  Nearly 200 were arrested at
the United Methodist General Conference in Cleveland last month.  The group
was met by stony silence when it demonstrated outside the Southern Baptist
Convention gathering in Orlando earlier this month.

	Earlier Sunday morning, an event that created a firestorm of controversy
last year – the Women of Faith Awards Breakfast – produced its more
customary celebrative atmosphere as it honored three women for their efforts
to combat economic injustice and oppression.  The recipients are Beverly
Armstrong of Richmond Heights, Mo.; Jerri Rodewald of Corona del Mar,
Calif.; and Artheillia Thompson of Detroit.  Armstrong is hunger action
enabler for Giddings-Lovejoy Presbytery and other community organizations in
the St. Louis area.  Thompson is hunger action enabler for Detroit
Presbytery and other hunger-related organizations in Detroit.  Rodewald is a
founder of the Mary Magdalene Project, a Los Angeles-area program which
seeks to help women wishing to get out of prostitution.

	Sunday afternoon, the race for stated clerk was joined when the Rev.
Winfield “Casey” Jones, a pastor from Pearland, Texas, was nominated to
oppose the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, who has been nominated for a second
four-year term by the Stated Clerk Revi
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Note #5944 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

19-June-2000
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	College News

	by Evan Silverstein

CARLINVILLE, Ill. -- Blackburn College President Miriam Pride was named
recently to fill the elected position of president of the Association of
Presbyterian Colleges and Universities (APCU) – an organization of 68 U.S.
colleges and universities with ties to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). She
will serve from July 1 to June 30, 2001. The president's responsibilities 
include convening the national meeting of the APCU and executive committee
meetings. Pride also will represent the association at a variety of official
activities.
	"My new role with the APCU is an honor," Pride said. "It's a real testimony
to how far Blackburn has come that I can be selected to serve as president
of the APCU – especially considering where Blackburn College was 10 years
ago. It's notice to the academic community ... that Blackburn's sister
institutions see us as a healthy, strong institution."

ALMA, Mich. -- Alma College President Alan J. Stone has announced that he
will retire next year after nearly 13 years at the school. His retirement
will be effective June 30, 2001, Stone said during a May 6 meeting of Alma's
board of trustees.
       Stone said Alma enrollment has risen from 1,000 to 1,400 students in
the past 12 years; the grade point average of enrolling students has gone up
to 3.5 from 3.3; and new students' average ACT score has risen from 24 to
25.5. Moreover, he said, four-year graduation rates have increased  and
annual giving to the school has gone from $3 million to nearly $4.5 million.
	Stone said that he and his wife Jonieta have enjoyed their tenure at Alma
College and are proud of their many successes. Before coming to Alma in
1988, Stone served as president of Aurora University in Aurora, Ill., for 10
years.

	
ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- The North Carolina Association of International
Educators, an organization with about 150 members, has presented its Award
for Excellence in International Education to Warren Wilson College.
	 Warren Wilson was honored for "significant achievement in the
internationalization of the college curriculum; in providing international
opportunities to the students ... and for increasing the diversity of its
student body through recruitment of international students." The award was
presented March 24 during the association's annual meeting at Meredith
College in Raleigh.

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