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GAC honors 2 for church service
04085
February 14, 2004

GAC honors 2 for church service
by Evan Silverstein

LOUISVILLE-Two former national staff members of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
were recognized here on Feb. 13 during the regular winter meeting of the
General Assembly Council (GAC).

Acting on the recommendation of the National Ministries Division Committee
(NMDC), the GAC commended the ministries of the Rev. Floyd N. Rhodes Jr. and
the Rev. A. Michael Warren.

Rhodes served for nearly two years as the PC(USA)'s interim associate
director of higher education in the National Ministries Division before
retiring last month.

"Floyd has served with distinction, providing stability during a transitional
period, supplying capable and competent management, and offering spiritual
leadership and guidance to the organization as a whole," NMDC said in its
recommendation.

Warren left the PC(USA)'s national staff at the end of last year after
serving in Churchwide Personnel Services (CPS) since Jan. 2001. While with
CPS, he provided consultation, training and resources to presbytery
committees on ministry (COMs), as well as to ministers and congregations. He
is now interim pastor of East Brentwood Presbyterian Church in East
Brentwood, TN.
"One of Mike's special contributions has been to emphasize 'Building Healthy
Pastoral Relationships,' recognizing that the COM is called to be the steward
of pastoral relationships," NMDC said.

Rhodes has been an assistant pastor in New York and pastor of congregations
in Los Angeles, Princeton, NJ, Wilmington, DE and Cleveland, OH. He also has
worked for the Chicago Presbytery and the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta.
Rhodes served on the GAC for six years and was a commissioner to the
"re-uniting General Assembly of 1983. He was vice moderator of the 211th
Assembly in Fort Worth, TX, in 1999.

He also is a former adjunct professor at the Interdenominational Theological
Center (ITC) in Atlanta, where he taught Presbyterian Church history and
polity to students of Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminar.

Warren earned a M.Div. degree from Union Theological Seminary and
Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, VA, and a Doctorate
of Ministry from McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. He has served as
pastor of Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church in Huntington, WV, and as an
associate executive presbyter of Salem Presbytery.

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