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         Nashville, Tenn. (615) 742-5470              Jan. 9, 1997

'Confessing Movement' names Indiana
state senator as executive director

                 by United Methodist News Service

     Indiana State Senator Patricia Miller has been elected
executive director of the Confessing Movement within the United
Methodist Church.
     The movement was launched in Atlanta in 1994 by 102 United
Methodists who reaffirmed "the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ
as revealed in scripture and asserted in the classic Christian
tradition and historic ecumenical creeds."
     At a second meeting in Atlanta April 1995, more than 900
church members issued a "Confessional Statement" declaring that
"Jesus Christ is the Son, the Savior, and the Lord, according to
the Scriptures."  The movement has urged other United Methodists
to join in the confession.
     Miller will assume her duties May 1 with offices in
Indianapolis.  She is an active member of Old Bethel United
Methodist Church in Indianapolis and has been active in the South
Indiana Annual Conference.  A member of the Indiana Area Committee
on the Episcopacy, she was a delegate to the past two General
Conferences and past three North Central Jurisdiction conferences. 
She is married and has two children and one grandchild.
     "Pat Miller is the right person at the right time and she
brings outstanding organizational skills to the Confessing
Movement at a time when grassroots organizing is essential," said
the Rev. John Ed Mathison in a Jan. 9 release.  Mathison, pastor
of Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church is one of the
movement's organizers and chairs its board.
     Meeting in Memphis Jan. 3, the board appointed a Theological
Commission to "reaffirm Wesleyan theology as established in the
Doctrinal Standards of the United Methodist Church."  The Rev.
Leicester Longden, pastor of Trinity United Methodist Church in
Lansing, Mich., was elected chairman of the commission.  Members
of the group are the Rev. Thomas Oden, a faculty member at Drew
University Theological School, Madison, N.J.; the Rev. Mark Horst,
pastor of Park Avenue United Methodist Church, Minneapolis; the
Rev. Joy Moore, staff member at Trinity United Methodist Church,
Lansing, Mich.; and the Rev. Billy Abraham, Perkins School of
Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
     Vice chairman of the Confessing Movement board is the Rev.
William Bauknight, Christ United Methodist Church in Memphis,
Tenn., and Mary Daffin, an attorney from Houston.
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