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Title:Ying And Weems Are Guest Speakers at Churchwide Gathering of Women 
10-July-1997 
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       Ying And Weems Are Guest Speakers at Churchwide 
                    Gathering of Women 
 
                      by Julian Shipp 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Under the daily theme "Laying Aside Every Weight -- Our 
Oneness in Christ," the Churchwide Gathering of Presbyterian Women opened 
July 10 with a morning plenary sermon presented by the Rev. Angela L. Ying, 
associate executive of Seattle Presbytery and executive secretary of the 
Church Council of Greater Seattle, an ecumenical organization in the 
Pacific Northwest. 
 
    Worshipers were also energized and inspired by Jim, Jean and Mike 
Strathdee, accomplished singers, song and worship leaders, concert artists 
and composers who have performed throughout the United States and Canada. 
 
    Following morning worship, conference participants discovered that many 
of the Gathering workshops were filled to capacity. In order to allow 
others an opportunity to attend, participants who had any workshop tickets 
they were not planning to use were encouraged to take them to the "Ticket 
Exchange" area on the mezzanine level of the Commonwealth Convention 
Center, the site of the Gathering. 
 
    Those scheduled to sign books were presenters -- Jane Dempsey Douglass, 
Clifton Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Thorsen-Smith, Renita Weems, and Miriam Therese 
Winter; planners -- Jane Parker Huber and Betsy Lunz. Another author, Duke 
Robinson, attended the gathering by special arrangement.  Many authors who 
are at the Gathering in another capacity also signed their books Thursday 
 
    Later that evening, the Louisville Youth Choir performed during the 
evening plenary concert. Dr. Renita J. Weems, associate professor of Old 
Testament studies at Vanderbilt University Divinty School in Nashville, 
Tenn., was the evening plenary keynote speaker. 

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