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PFF official is candidate for moderator
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November 13, 2002

PFF official is candidate for moderator

Longtime missionary Harold Kurtz is endorsed by Cascades Presbytery

by John Filiatreau

LOUISVILLE, KY - The Rev. Harold Kurtz, an official of Presbyterian Frontier
Fellowship (PFF), has become the first announced candidate for moderator of
the 215th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
	
Cascades Presbytery endorsed Kurtz's candidacy during a meeting on Nov. 9.
	
Kurtz was ordained as a minister of the old United Presbyterian Church of
North America (UPCNA) in 1951. He and his wife, Polly, worked as UPCNA
missionaries in Ethiopia for 22 years. He later served for 10 years as pastor
of Kenton United Presbyterian Church in Portland, OR.
	
Kurtz is senior associate of PFF, a validated mission-support group of the
PC(USA) that promotes Presbyterian mission among "unreached" peoples around
the world. He was executive director of the foundation from 1984 to 2000. 
	
He and his wife have traveled extensively in recent years visiting mission
projects in Africa, Europe and Asia. They have five daughters and a son.

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