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Notes about people
04015
January 13, 2004

Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

	Citing the pressures of "two-city living," the Rev. Joanna M. Adams
has resigned as co-pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago. For the
past two years, Adams has served the historic Chicago congregation with the
Rev. John M. Buchanan.

	Adams moved to Chicago from Atlanta while her husband, Al, remained
in Atlanta. "The personal price (we) have paid in conjunction with two-city
living is simply too large to sustain going forward," Adams wrote in her
resignation letter to Fourth church.

	Her resignation, effective Dec. 31, was approved by the congregation
on Jan. 4.

		    # # #

	After nearly two decades of service on the faculty and as director of
the library at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (LPTS), the Rev.
Milton "Joe" Coalter has resigned to become librarian and professor of
bibliography at Union Theological Seminary/Presbyterian School of Christian
Education in Richmond, VA. He will begin his new work in the fall of 2004.

	During his tenure, Coalter led the expansion and automation of the
White Library at LPTS, introduced a compact shelving system that increased
the library's capacity and integrated the seminary's professional and
academic technology systems.

	Coalter is perhaps best-known as co-director of  The Presbyterian
Presence, a seven-volume study of Presbyterians in the 20th century which he
co-authored with then LPTS president the Rev. John Mulder and the Rev. Louis
Weeks, a former LPTS professor who is now president of Union/PSCE.

	Coalter also currently serves on the Presbyterian Church (USA)
Theological Task Force on the Peace, Unity and Purity of the Church.

		     # # #

	The Congregational Ministries Division has announced that Gregory R.
Cohen will join its Church Leader Support Team as associate for older adult
ministries, mission program and funding. In addition to the programmatic work
of the Older Adult Ministries Office, he will be responsible for raising
funds to endow the office's work.

	A Presbyterian elder, Cohen formerly served on national staff as
associate for special gifts in the Mission Funding Office of the General
Assembly Council. He has also worked as an executive for the Boy Scouts of
America and the Apple Patch Community, a residential facility for adults with
mental disabilities.

	Cohen began his new work Jan. 8.

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