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21-May-1997 
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                Open Hearings on PHEWA Scheduled  
                     During General Assembly 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--The General Assembly's Special Committee to Review the 
Presbyterian Health, Education and Welfare Association (PHEWA) has 
announced that it will hold open hearings during the upcoming 209th General 
Assembly in Syracuse. 
 
     According to Fred Heuser, Office of the General Assembly staff to the 
committee, the hearings will be held June 15 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and 
June 16 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.  Persons who will be in Syracuse and want 
to testify are asked to sign up in advance at the ONCenter. 
 
     The committee was appointed by last year's General Assembly "to 
address concerns regarding the inclusion of other groups into PHEWA and the 
relationship of those groups to the National Ministries Division of the 
General Assembly Council."  The group that has been most persistent in 
pressing for PHEWA membership is Presbyterians Pro-Life. 
 
     The committee, which was asked to report to this year's Assembly, has 
requested an extension until next year so that it may hold hearings at this 
year's Assembly. 
 
     PHEWA currently includes 10 voluntary membership organizations: 
Community Ministries and Neighorhood Organizations (COMANO), Presbyterian 
AIDS Network (PAN), Presbyterian Association of Specialized Pastoral 
Ministries (PASPM), Presbyterian Child Advocacy Network (PCAN), 
Presbyterian Health Network (PHN), Presbyterian Network on Alcohol and 
Other Drug Abuse (PNAODA), Presbyterian Serious Mental Illness Network 
(PSMIN), Presbyterians Affirming Reproductive Options (PARO), Presbyterians 
for Disabilities Concerns (PDC) and Urban Presbyterian Pastors Association 
(UPPA). 

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