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14-November-1996 
 
 
96457    Speakers Set, Registration Materials Available  
                        for Phewa Biennial 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Based on Proverbs 17:22 -- "A joyful heart is good 
medicine" -- the 1997 Presbyterian Health, Education and Welfare 
Association (PHEWA) biennial conference will explore the joy and fun of 
serving others, often in impossible circumstances. 
 
     Registration packets for the Jan. 16-19 conference in Charlotte, N.C., 
are now available from the PHEWA office in Louisville.  The theme for the 
conference is "Holy Humor, Sacred Laughter, Awesome Feast." 
 
     The conference preacher is the Rev. Sam Mann, pastor of St. Mark's 
Presbyterian Church and United Inner City Services in Kansas City, Mo. 
 
     Keynote speaker is the Rev. Bailey Phelps, a storyteller, writer, 
musician, poet and Presbyterian pastor.  Phelps, a member of the Cherokee 
Nation, uses sacred and secular stories to encourage a deeper biblical 
understanding of human nature. 
 
     Also featured in plenary presentation will be the Rev. Curtis Jones, 
pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in Baltimore and a leading 
community organizer and housing advocate in the city. 
 
     They will be joined by the Rev. Jana Childers, professor of homiletics 
and speech communication at San Francisco Theological Seminary.  She will 
perform her one-woman show, "Berries Red," written by Pat Schneider.  The 
play interweaves the stories of several women's lives, from a bishop's 
wife's lament to the matter-of-fact philosophy of the daughter of slaves, 
from a five-year-old's view of tenement life to the hard-bitten outlook of 
a survivor of domestic violence. 
 
     Participants will also have a choice of 28 skills-building workshops 
from which to choose for a variety of social welfare ministries.  And on 
Jan. 18, the John Park Lee Award Luncheon will honor a chosen leader in 
social welfare ministry in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). 
 
     More information is available by calling Colleen Bowers, PHEWA's 
interim executive director, at (502) 569-5794. 
 
     PHEWA is an association of 10 social welfare ministry networks in the 
Presbyterian Church. The networks are Community Ministries and Neighborhood 
Organizations (COMANO), Presbyterian AIDS Network (PAN), Presbyterian 
Association of Specialized Pastoral Ministries (PASPM), Presbyterian Child 
Advocacy Network (PCAN), Presbyterian Health Network (PHN), Presbyterian 
Network on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (PNAODA), Presbyterian Serious 
Mental Illness Network (PSMIN), Presbyterians Affirming Reproductive 
Options (PARO), Presbyterians for Disabilities Concerns (PDC) and Urban 
Presbyterian Pastors Association (UPPA). 

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