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Note #8740 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

05274
May 19, 2005

Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

	Ernest "Camp" Edwards, 72, who for more than three decades was a
servant and role model for young people in Louisville's toughest
neighborhoods, died on May 17, just five days after being honored as one of
the city's best and brightest neighborhood leaders.

	A native of Louisville, Edwards was nurtured as a child by staff of
the Presbyterian Community Center (PCC), one of the oldest organizations of
its kind in the country. After a stint in the U.S. Army, he graduated from
Bellarmine College in Louisville, and, with financial assistance from the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), earned a master's degree in social work from
the University of Louisville in 1969. 

	Throughout his career, Edwards maintained his connection to the PCC,
as a part-time counselor, director of neighborhood services, social worker,
board member and interim executive director. He also worked in several county
youth programs, taught at a local community college, founded a number of
neighborhood organizations, and at the time of his death was director of
community outreach for Just Solutions, a local mediation service. He was
inducted into the PCC Hall of Fame on May 12.

	Edwards, a member of Grace Hope Presbyterian Church in Louisville,
also served for a time on the staff of Mid-Kentucky Presbytery. 
A funeral service has been set for May 23 at Louisville Presbyterian
Theological Seminary.

# # #	

	The Rev. Paul Galbreath, associate for worship in the Office of
Theology and Worship in Louisville, has resigned to accept a position as an
associate professor of preaching and worship at Union Theological
Seminary-Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, VA. Aug. 31
will be his last day on the national staff.  

	Before coming to Louisville four years ago, Galbreath was pastor of
Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, WA.

# # #

	Shannon Edwards Langley has been named coordinator for global
education and international leadership development in the PC(USA)'s Worldwide
Ministries Division. She will direct the office that works with
church-related educational institutions overseas and runs a scholarship
program intended to aid future international church leaders.

	Langley and her husband, Ben, served as PC(USA) mission co-workers in
the Dominican Republic from 1997 to 2003, when they became
missionaries-in-residence in the church's Latin America and Caribbean Office.

	Before entering mission service, Langley taught high school and
college mathematics. She has a bachelor's degree from Carson-Newman College
in Jefferson City, TN and a master's from Indiana University Southeast. She
is now working toward a certification in teaching English as a Second
Language at the University of Louisville.

# # #

	Elaine A. Matthes has been named coordinator for mission personnel
relations in the Worldwide Ministries Division (WMD). As coordinator of
mission personnel relations, she will administer mission appointments and
reappointments, reassignments, compensation and benefits, and personnel care.

	Matthes, formerly director of children's ministries at Louisville's
Second Presbyterian Church, has also has been a PC(USA) mission co-worker in
Romania, a missionary in residence in WMD, and the chief executive officer of
Evergreen Children's Association in Seattle, WA.
 
	Matthes earned a bachelor's degree at Concordia Teacher's College in
River Forest, IL, and a master's from the University of San Francisco. She
has done additional study at Union Theological Seminary-Presbyterian School
of Christian Education in Richmond, VA.

# # #

	David Tinkle, a longtime and much-loved budget analyst for Mission
Support Services in Louisville, died on May 9, of cancer.

	A funeral service was held on May 12 at Harvey Browne Memorial
Presbyterian Church in Louisville.

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