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Note #7967 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

Notes about people
03430
October 6, 2003

Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

The Rev. Amy McClain has resigned as associate development director for the
Mission Initiative: Joining Hearts & Hands.

She is the second key staff member in recent months to leave the five-year,
$40 million campaign to raise funds for overseas missionaries and new church
development and church redevelopment in this country, particularly racial
ethnic and immigrant churches. Ron Lundeen, the campaign director, resigned
last month, to take a faculty and development position at Hartford Seminary.

With Lundeen's departure, the travel demands on McClain jumped from 30% to an
estimated 90% of her time. "I am not able to do this," she told colleagues at
the Presbyterian Center, expressing regret that she couldn't stay with the
campaign.

McClain's last day was Oct. 6.

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On Oct. 26, the Rev. Sergio Ojeda will be inaugurated as the new president of
Seminario Evangelico de Puerto Rico. The seminary is in covenant relationship
with the Presbyterian Church (USA).

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The Congregational Ministries Division has announced the appointment of the
Rev. Tricia L. Tedrow as Associate for Curriculum Development for Youth and
Young Adults in Congregational Ministries Publishing (CMP).

Tedrow, a graduate of Whitworth College and Austin Presbyterian Theological
Seminary, joins CMP after serving two pastorates, in West Monroe, LA and
LaGrange, TX.

She joins the CMP staff on October 20.

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One of the World Council of Churches' new interns for 2003-2004 is Lisa
Yablonsky, a Presbyterian from New Jersey.

Yablonsky, a recent graduate of Pennsylvania State University, will be
working with the public information team at the Ecumenical Center in Geneva.
One of her colleagues there will be Presbyterian minister Theodore A. "Theo"
Gill.

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