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Note #6163 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

24-August-2000
00299

Corrections and clarifications

	In response to a General Assembly action regarding the number of women
entering and leaving pastoral ministry, the Office of Churchwide Personnel
Services in Louisville has released the following information:

* between 1994 and 1999, the number of women serving congregations as
pastors and associate 	pastors increased by 319.  During the same time, the
number of men serving congregations as pastors and associate pastors
declined by 993.

* at the end of 1999, there were 1,228 male inquirers and candidates in the
Presbyterian Church 	(U.S.A.) and 1,226 female inquirers and candidates.

	# # #

	"Assembly in Brief 2000" reported that the 212th General Assembly "called
for a task force to study the doctrine of the Trinity, giving special
attention to finding inclusive-language terms for the persons of the
Trinity."
	The Assembly instead called for the study to proceed ". . . with particular
attention to the need to recover terms and images that refer to the being of
the persons of the Trinity, as stated in ‘Definitions and Guidelines on
Inclusive Language'" of the PC(USA).

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