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GA00026
June 25, 2000

Peacemaking program hosts 20th-birthday dinner

	by John Filiatreau

LONG BEACH, 24 – An overflow crowd of more than 150 people gathered in a
Hyatt Regency ballroom Saturday night for a 20th-anniversary celebration
dinner for the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program.

	One highlight of the event was the appearance of a beret-topped
“Frenchman”who introduced himself as “Gen. Assemblie,”and said he was
determined to “make all the dinners” of the 212th Assembly.

	This turned out to be Jim Watkins, the peacemaking program’s associate for
public policy advocate training, who claimed to have “weathered the past 20
years with grace,” although he admitted he was growing “a little gray around
the temples” beneath his chapeau.

	“Gen. Assemblie”discussed various aspects of “Peacemaking, the Believers’
Calling,” with other staff members, including Sara Lisherness, the program
coordinator, and Julia Jones, Nancy A. McNeil, Ed Craxton, Bob Smiley and
Debbie Vial. He also introduced Donald Campbell, director of the
Congregational Ministries Division, who said sweetly that he “never met a
General Assembly I didn’t like.”

	Lisherness said the people who work in or support the peacemaking program
are “those with whom peace begins ... partners with God in restoring a
broken world.”

	“Every Christian is called to do something about the brokenness,” she said,
adding that the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program “for 20 years has been
scratching where folks have been itching.”

	

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