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Notes about people
03261
June 12, 2003

Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

	
The Rev. John S. McClure, professor of ministry, homiletics and liturgics at
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary has been named senior professor
of preaching and worship at Vanderbilt University's divinity school, a
program founded by David G. Buttrick. McClure begins his new teaching
responsibilities this fall in Nashville.
	
McClure, a prolific writer, is a leading proponent of "collaborative
preaching," a method which includes laity in sermon brainstorming and
development outlined in his book The Roundtable Pulpit: Where Leadership and
Preaching Meet. 
	
McClure holds degrees from the University of the South, the University of
Glasgow, Fuller Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary. He
is a member of the American Academy of Religion and is currently president of
the North American Academy of Homiletics.
	
McClure is also an accomplished rock and roll and blues musician who, when
recently asked who he would like to change places with for one day,
unhesitatingly responded, "Eric Clapton." 

		 # # #

The Racial Ethnic Ministries Program Area of the National Ministries Division
has named the Rev. Teresa Chavez Sauceda as associate for racial justice and
advocacy. She succeeds the Rev. Otis Turner, who recently retired. 
	
 A member of San Francisco Presbytery, Sauceda has been active for a number
of years in the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s anti-racism efforts, most
recently as a consultant for the church's Anti-Racism Program and as an
anti-racism facilitator.
	
Sauceda was formerly executive director of Manos Unidas Community Center, a
community ministry program affiliated with the Iglesia Presbiteriana de la
Misisn of San Francisco which serves the Latina/o immigrant community in San
Francisco. She has also served in several teaching positions, including
adjunct faculty at San Francisco Theological Seminary and teaching assistant
at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA.

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The Interim Ministry Network, a professional association, has named the Rev.
Robert Cassell, a Presbyterian pastor from Valencia, CA, the winner of its
2002 Award for Excellence.
	
Cassell, a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh
Theological Seminary, has conducted six interim pastorates and is active in
the network, as well as its Presbyterian counterpart, the Association of
Presbyterian Interim Ministry Specialists.
	
He is currently interim pastor for First Presbyterian Church of Newhall, CA. 

		   # # #

The Rev. Lou McAlister East of Greensboro, NC, began work May 1 as Southeast
regional coordinator for the Covenant Network of Presbyterians.  
	
In this new position, East will help connect Covenant Network supporters in
the synods of Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Living Waters and assist them
in carrying out the Network's announced strategies of informing, networking,
and advocating for "a church as generous and just as God's grace."
	
East has served the church as a parish pastor since her ordination in 1995,
and before that as a clergy spouse.  She recently completed six years as
associate pastor of Graham (NC) Presbyterian Church. She also helped start
North Carolina Presbyterian Pilgrimage and Presbyterian Arise, lay renewal
retreat programs.
	
As the Covenant Network job is half-time, East will devote her other energies
to the steering committee for the Epiphany New Church Development in
Greensboro, a ministry of Salem Presbytery. 
	
The Covenant Network has also hired Anitra Kitts Rasmussen for the newly
created position of Director of Communications. Rasmussen, an elder at Rose
City Park Presbyterian Church, Portland, OR and an M.Div. student at San
Francisco Theological Seminary, will work closely with the Covenant Network's
Executive Director and Board to develop effective communication and
educational materials in support of the Covenant Network's vision of "a
church as generous and just as God's grace."

		 # # #

The Rev. John Niles Bartholomew, retired synod executive for the Synod of the
South Atlantic and chair of the Committee on the Office of the General
Assembly, has accepted an invitation to head to the last frontier.
	
Beginning July 1, Bartholomew will serve for three months as interim pastor
of  the Wrangell Presbyterian Church, a remote in Alaska Presbytery. 

		 # # #
	
The Rev. Elam Davies, pastor emeritus of the Fourth Presbyterian Church
of Chicago, who helped it build a major church?sponsored community services
institution on the city's Near North Side, died June 6 in Bethlehem, PA,
where he had retired in the 1980's. He was 86.
	
While serving as pastor from 1961 to 1984 as pastor of the prominent downtown
church, Davies started the outreach programs that became the church's Elam
Davies Social Service Center, which offers services like mentoring children
after school, tai chi
classes and geriatric assistance. Begun in the 1960s, the center is supported
by the church, foundations, individual donations and hundreds of volunteers.
	
Davies, a native of Grovesend, Wales, served two pastorates in Wales and at
First Presbyterian Church of Bethelehem prior to going to Chicago. After
retiring in 1984, he served as interim pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church in New York City in 1987.
	
Davies is survived by his wife, Grace Owen Davies; a daughter, Judith
Schneider of Chicago; and one granddaughter.

		# # #

The Rev. Jay Rock has joined the staff of the Worldwide Ministries Division
in Louisville as coordinator for interfaith relations. He begins his new work
Sept. 1.
	
A longtime Presbyterian Church (USA) mission co-worker, Rock for the past 16
years has been seconded to the Interfaith Office of the National Council of
Churches. 
	
Rock is a graduate of Duke University and received an M.Div. and an M.A. in
Christian theological studies from San Francisco Theological Seminary. He
also holds a Ph.D. in the history and phenomenology of religion from the
Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. He is a member of San Francisco
Presbytery.

		  # # #

Ann Walle, a Presbyterian from Larchmont, NY, has been named  the first
director of marketing and communications for Church World Service, an
ecumenical relief and development agency affiliated with the National Council
of Churches.
	
With more than 18 years' experience in communications and marketing, Walle
was most recently director of marketing and communications for the American
Museum of Natural History in New York.	

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