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12-November-1996 
 
 
96451         Deadline Nears for Ecumenical Service  
                        Recognition Awards 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--The Worldwide Ministries Division and the Presbyterian 
Church's Department of History are co-sponsoring a mission history project 
designed to document Presbyterian mission activities around the world in 
the 20th century. 
 
     The goal of the project, as authorized by the General Assembly Council 
in September 1995, is "to enable the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to more 
effectively discover, identify, secure, preserve and coordinate 
documentation related to the Christian movement in those areas where it is 
engaged in mission, in order that the PC(USA), its partner churches and 
related ecumenical agencies may engage in research and writing which will 
guide mission policy in the coming century." 
 
     A Task Force for Missionary Documentation has been established to 
assess the current status of documentation of Presbyterian mission 
activities around the world, to develop a system for the ongoing collection 
of mission activity documentation, to coordinate the compilation of mission 
activity documentation and to oversee the conversion of mission activity 
documentation into a written history. 
 
     The task force is asking that those persons in the Presbyterian Church 
(U.S.A.) and its partner churches who are currently engaged in the 
documentation, writing and publication of mission history contact the Rev. 
Robert Abrams in the Worldwide Ministries Division, 100 Witherspoon Street, 
Room 3227, Louisville, KY 40202-1396.  His e-mail address is 
Bob_Abrams@pcusa.org 

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