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Date: March 4, 1997
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
Email: CWillis@oc.disciples.org
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     INDIANAPOLIS (DNS)-- A Lexington, Ky., pastor has been nominated to lead
the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) General Assembly, beginning in July.

     The Rev. Michael W. Mooty, senior minister, Central Christian Church,
Lexington, has
been nominated as moderator. Nominated as first vice-moderator is Zola M.
Walker, director of
development and church relations, Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins, Texas.
Also named is Dr.
Donald T. Lucey, Raleigh, N.C.,who would serve as second vice-moderator. 
 
     Elections will be during the July 25-29 General Assembly, to be held in
Denver. If
elected, they will serve two-year terms that expire at the conclusion of the
1999 biennial gathering.

     Mooty has served the Lexington congregation since March 1995. He
previously served
pastorates in Dallas, Chattanooga, Erlanger, Ky., and Winston-Salem, N.C. The
moderator
presides at meetings of the General Board and Administrative Committee. If
elected, Mooty would
preside at the 1999 General Assembly, scheduled to meet in Cincinnati.

     The nominee is a member of the board of directors of the Christian Board
of Publication
and the board of trustees of Lexington Theological Seminary. He has previously
served as chair of
the Week of Compassion Committee, and as chair of the board of directors of
the Board of Church
Extension. Mooty also served two terms on the General Board and on the board's
Administrative
Committee.

     A graduate of Davidson (N.C.) College and Lexington Theological Seminary,
Mooty has
continued his education at Princeton (N.J.) University; Wake Forest
University, Winston-Salem,
N.C.; LTS and Hebrew Union, Cincinnati.

     He and his wife, Sarah, have two sons.

     Zola Walker has been a part of the Disciples-related Jarvis College staff
since last spring,
but was employed by the school in the late 1960's and again in the late
1970's. She has 17 years
experience in higher education administration. 

     Walker is former moderator of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
in the
Southwest. Other service as a Disciple includes membership on the
denomination's General Board
and Administrative Committee. She has also served on the board of directors
for the church's
Council on Christian Unity and Division of Higher Education. She is a member
of Jarvis College
Christian Church.
     Walker is currently president of the Big Sandy Rotary Club, and a member
of area civic
associations.

     She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tennessee State University,
Nashville, and an
MBA from the University of North Texas, Denton.

     Her husband, the Rev. Claude Walker, is pastor of East Side Christian
Church, Longview.
The couple are the parents of three children and have seven grandchildren.

     A 25-year member of Hillyer Memorial Christian Church in Raleigh, Lucey
is a doctor in
private practice and  a clinical professor of urology, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.

     He helped organize the Urban Ministries Center in Raleigh, a crisis
intervention center
and homeless shelter. Lucey has also been an active member of the Health
Access Committee for
the North Carolina Medical Society. About 10 years ago Lucey was instrumental
in starting the
Open Door Clinic which serves persons who do not have medical insurance. Some
21 clinics,
modeled after the Open Door Clinic, have now been established in the state.

     In his congregation, the nominee has served as an elder, CMF president
and youth group
sponsor. He is a former trustee of National City Christian Church and has
traveled to Indochina on
ecumenical mission trips.

     Lucey earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida,
Gainesville, and his
M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. He served in the
U.S. Air Force
from 1964-67, stationed at the U.S.A. Hospital, Weisbaden, Germany. 

     Lucey and his wife, Shirley, are the parents of three adult children and
have one grandson.

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