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Evangelism and Higher Education
GA04056
June 29, 2004

Evangelism and Higher Education

by Nancy D. Borst

RICHMOND, June 29 - How to grow the PC(USA) was the top priority of the
Committee on Evangelism and Higher Education, which discussed five overtures
related to evangelism and voted to recommend that the full Assembly:

*Endorse the "Alpha" evangelism program and continue publishing "Alpha: From
a Reformed Perspective" and making supplemental materials on the Holy Spirit
available on the Internet;

*Approve three overtures calling for more intentional evangelism, especially
with racial-ethnic and immigrant fellowship groups, in keeping with the
denomination's established goals of increasing racial-ethnic and immigrant
membership.

The committee expressed verbal support for the idea of launching a quarterly
mission magazine written by and for youth in the church, but balked at the
estimated start-up cost of $500,000. The commissioners voted to send the
matter to the General Assembly Council for exploration. The GAC is to report
back to the 2006 Assembly.

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