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19-June-1997 
GA97099 
 
     "Year of the Child" Overture Makes it Through Committee 
 
                          by Dee Wade 
 
Syracuse:  Late Tuesday afternoon, the Assembly Committee on Mission 
Program and Coordination somewhat narrowly passed a motion to recommend 
Overture 97-59 to the full General Assembly.  This overture, coming from 
the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta, would designate a "Year of the Child" 
starting with the 211th General Assembly (1999), and would establish 
programs responding to the special needs and gifts of children.  Committee 
discussion of this overture included concerns that the "Year of the Child" 
would compete with a proposed emphasis on the "Great Ends of the Church" 
covering six years, one for each "End" as set forth in the first chapter of 
the Book of Order.   Other commissioners saw no such competition,  stating 
that the Year of the Child would work well with the second of the Great 
Ends, "the shelter, nurture, and spiritual fellowship of the children of 
God." 

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