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Note #6595 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

11-June-2001
GA01036

Sunday worship offering totals more than $32,000

by Nancy D. Borst

LOUISVILLE, June 11 - The offering taken during the opening service of
worship Sunday for the 213th General Assembly totaled $32,470.45, according
to the Office of the General Assembly.

The offering will be divided among six causes identified by the Rev. Syngman
Rhee, Moderator of the 212th General Assembly. They are:

* Bongsoo Noodle Factory, a food ministry in North Korea; 

* First Presbyterian Church, Paoli, Indiana, to help it rebuild from a
devastating fire;

* Taiwanese New Church Development and the Korean Presbyterian Church of
Louisville, to support Taiwanese- and Korean-American ministries;

* Maxwell Street Legal Clinic, Lexington, Ky., to assist in hiring a paid
attorney for the mushrooming need for legal services for low-income clients,
particularly immigrants;

* Hispanic Ministry in the Presbytery of Western Kentucky, to help
congregations develop programs to respond to this need;

* International Student Aid at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary,
to help financial needs of international students

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