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Quadrennial Assembly
Date: April 29, 1997
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
Email: CWillis@oc.disciples.org
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    INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- Former USA Today columnist
Barbara Reynolds headlines the list of speakers for the
1998 Quadrennial Assembly of the International Christian
Women's Fellowship. 

    The June 24-28 event at Purdue University will
attract some 4,000 Disciples women and ecumenical guests
from around the world. The assembly theme is "Rekindle
the Flame."

    Reynolds, an ordained minister, will address the
assembly June 26, according the Rev. Claudia Grant,
Quadrennial coordinator.  

    Other assembly speakers include Jim and Kathy
McGinnis, authors and founders of the Institute for
Peace and Justice, and Ophelia Ortega Suarez, president
of the Evangelical Theological Seminary, Matanzas, Cuba.
The McGinnises will speak June 27. Suarez addresses the
gathering June 25.

    Kicking off the assembly June 24 will be the Rev.
Cynthia L. Hale, pastor of Ray of Hope Christian Church,
Decatur, Ga. Speaking during the June 28 closing
ceremony will be Susan Shank Mix, a Disciples laywoman
and president of Church Women United.

    Bible study during the assembly will take an
interfaith approach through leaders Rabbi Sandra
Eisenberg Sasso, Indianapolis, and the Rev. Nancy
Heimer. A children's book author, Sasso and her spouse
are "the first rabbinical couple in world Jewish
history," Grant added. Sasso also writes children's
books. Heimer is a retired Homeland Ministries executive
in the former Department of Church Women.  

    Registration for the quadrennial event begins July
25 during the 1997 General Assembly of the Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ) in Denver.

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