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United Methodist Shirley Struchen
leads planning for RCC 2000 event

                 by United Methodist News Service

     Shirley Struchen, staff member of United Methodist
Communications with offices in New York, has been named to lead
the steering committee for RCC 2000, a once-a-decade,
international, interfaith forum for communicators of religion.
     The Rev. Richard T. McCartney, a Southern Baptist, was
elected chairman of the Religious Communication Congress's
steering committee early in 1996 but resigned in March 1997
because of changes in his work.
     Struchen works primarily with the production of
teleconferences and resourcing the needs of annual conferences
throughout the United Methodist Church.
     RCC 2000 will be held March 29-April 1 in Chicago where the
first congress was held in 1970.  The 1980 and 1990 events were
held in Nashville.
     Theme of the 2000 gathering, expected to attract 1,500
people, will be "Faith Stories in a Changing World." Purpose of
the event is to provide an arena where communicators can:
     * exchange views on communication issues that affect people
throughout the world;
     * explore the effectiveness of religious communication models
currently in use;
     * examine new technologies for the effective communication of
values and faith in the new century;    
     * enhance cooperation among people of diverse media
disciplines, faiths, cultures and nations.
     The congress will focus on the way faith stories are shared
in spoken, electronic, cyberspace, written and artistic forms.
     Other leaders of the steering committee include vice chair
Sonia Francis, director of media services for the Domestic and
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church;
treasurer, the Rev. Eric Shafer, director of communication for the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; and secretary, George
Conklin, director of the Worldwide Faith Computer Network. Ann
Gillies, director of communications for the Presbyterian Church
USA, is chairing the program committee.
     Members of the steering committee and committees are still
being recruited, according to Struchen.
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