wfn.org | Kansas communicator Kathy Kruger Noble to join UMCom staff

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Dec. 1, 2000 News media contact: Thomas S. McAnally·(615)742-5470·Nashville,
Tenn.     10-71BP{538}

NOTE: A head-and-shoulders photograph of Kathy Kruger Noble is available
upon request.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - A communications staff member of the Kansas West
Annual Conference for the past 17 years has been named to the staff of
United Methodist Communications (UMCom).

The Rev. Kathy Kruger Noble will assume her new position Jan. 8 as a
consultant on UMCom's Conference Resourcing Team (CRT). The CRT assists
church communicators, council on ministries directors, and bishops with
communications needs by connecting them with networks, materials, companies
or resource people who can best help them. 

Noble succeeds Barbara Nissen, who was recently promoted to head CRT after
the team's executive, the Rev. Steven Horswill-Johnston, was tapped to lead
the churchwide "Igniting Ministry" media initiative authorized by the 2000
General Conference. 

Noble, an ordained United Methodist deacon, has an associate of arts degree
from Otero Junior College in La Junta, Colo.; a bachelor of arts degree from
the University of Kansas in Lawrence; and a master of science degree from
Fort Hays University, Hays, Kan. Before joining the United Methodist
Church's Kansas West Conference, she was director of public information for
Colby (Kan.) Community College for nine years, a part-time announcer and
reporter for a Colby radio station, and news editor of the Prairie Drummer
newspaper in Colby.

She has served as president of the United Methodist Association of
Communicators and is active in several professional organizations, including
the Religion Communicators Council, Wichita Press Women, Kansas Press Women
and the National Federation of Press Women. She has received awards for
writing; radio, television and video production; and promotional campaigns.

She is married to the Rev. Don S. Noble, a pastor and member of the Kansas
West Conference.   
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