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16-June-1997 
GA97041 
 
         Committee Recommends Reelection of Foundation President 
 
                               by Jane Hines 
 
 
SYRACUSE--The Assembly Committee on the Presbyterian Foundation and 
Publishing Corporation has voted to recommend the reelection of Foundation 
President Larry D. Carr in response to the recommendations of the 
Foundation Board of Trustees and the General Assembly Council. 
 
    The vote of the Trustees was unanimous; the GAC vote was 71 to 15; and 
the Assembly committee voted 35 to 3 to concur with the trustees and 33 to 
4 to concur with the G.A.C. 
 
    The Assembly committee spent the day on Monday, June 16, hearing 
stories and statistics bearing witness to the dedicated work of the 
Foundation in managing and increasing dramatically the financial resources 
that are available for the mission work of the denomination.  Then they 
heard the impressive story of how the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation 
has survived and thrived after being in business without denominational 
subsidy since January of l994.  PPC Board Chair Price Gwynn told the story 
of how they have done what was necessary to survive as a business while 
modeling a Christian management style.  "The scorecard says that the 
ministry of the printed word has been saved but we've done some dumb 
things," he said. 
 
    A question about the relationship of PPC to the PREM curriculum 
publishing efforts in the Congregational Ministries Division was raised by 
Rosemary Banta, elder commissioner from Memphis Presbytery.  Davis Perkins, 
PPC president and publisher, assured the committee that efforts are being 
made to promote cooperation rather than competition.  Perkins told of the 
ways in which PPC is donating staff time and resources to other 
denominational projects and ideas. "In fact," he said, "new winds of 
cooperation are flowing throughout the church at several levels." 
 
    Earlier in the day, the moderator and stated clerk of San Juan 
Presbytery reported on a new covenant between the presbytery and the 
Foundation, as he spoke in favor of confirming the reelection of Carr. 

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