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TITLE:	4 Denominations Create State Advocacy Center

Contact:  Joretta Purdue  	1(10-71B){528}
		Washington, D.C.  (202) 546-8722  	Jan. 5, 1998

Maryland United Methodists among those
establishing ecumenical state advocacy center

	WASHINGTON (UMNS) -- Regional units of four denominations in Maryland have
joined as partners in setting up an Ecumenical Advocacy Center in Annapolis,
the state capital.
	The state advocacy ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America,
Presbyterian Church (USA), the Episcopal Church and the United Methodist
Church will be housed in the center.
	The center's founders are active in the Maryland Interfaith Legislative
Committee, a consensus-based interfaith advocacy coalition. However, this
collaboration marks the first time these advocacy ministries will share office
space and expenses.
	Sharing facilities does not imply political consensus among the participants
on all public issues, but the groups agree that they have similar views on
health insurance for the state's 168,000 uninsured children, slots and casino
gambling, and hunger-related concerns.
	The advocacy ministries include those of the Lutheran Delaware-Maryland
Synod, the Presbytery of Baltimore, the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland and the
United Methodist Baltimore-Washington Conference.
	"Opening the Ecumenical Advocacy Center in Annapolis provides an arena for
prayerful and thoughtful efforts to speak to the human issues of a
contemporary world," said United Methodist Bishop Felton Edwin May.
	Lutheran Bishop George P. Mocko observed, "With all the diverse and
contradictory views you hear on every public issue, it should be heartening
that on most of these issues, Christians either agree, can agree or can find a
way agreeably to disagree."
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