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07454 July 24, 2007
Notes about people
by Jerry Van Marter Presbyterian News Service
The Revs. Bridgett Green and Vanessa Hawkins have been named coordinators in the Racial Ethnic and Women's Ministries/Presbyterian Women program area of the General Assembly Council in Louisville. They began their work last month after having served as acting co-directors of the program area prior to the hiring of the Rev. Rhashell D. Hunter as its permanent director earlier this spring.
Green will coordinate programming for women's advocacy; the National Network of Presbyterian College Women; racial justice and advocacy, racial ethnic schools and colleges, and the Racial Ethnic Young Women Together (REYWT) office.
Hawkins will coordinate programming for racial ethnic ministries, which includes the Black, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, Korean, Middle Eastern and Native American congregational enhancement offices, and new immigrant ministries.
Green is a graduate of Davidson (N.C.) College and Princeton Theological Seminary. She was ordained in 2005 by the Presbytery of Charlotte and has served as REYWT associate for two years.
Hawkins is a graduate of North Carolina Central University, the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Va., and Johnson C. Smith Seminary in Atlanta. She was ordained in 1998 to a campus ministry position for South Carolina State University and Claflin College in Orangeburg, S.C. She also served for four years as a PC(USA) mission co-worker in South Africa before serving a pastorate in Dublin, Ga., and then coming on national staff as associate for black congregational enhancement.
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The Rev. Karl B. Travis, a longtime leader in Presbyterian Men, has been named pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth, Texas. He began his new call July 23.
Travis, 43, was previously pastor of Grosse Ile Presbyterian Church, of Grosse Ile, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. A graduate of Trinity University in Texas and San Francisco Theological Seminary, he began his ministerial career at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Roswell, N.M., in 1991.
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Julia Piper Beckwith, who was long active in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) at all levels, died May 21 in Parsons, Kan.
During her years of service, Beckwith was program chair for the former United Presbyterian Women's national meeting in 1961; a PC(USA) delegate to the World Council of Churches in New Delhi; a trustee of the Presbyterian Foundation, a member of the General Assembly Council, a board of directors member for Presbyterian Life magazine, national vice-president of Church Women United and treasurer of the National Council of Churches.
A memorial service was held in Parsons on June 9.
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