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CONTACT: Linda Bloom										46(10-71B)573 
	            New York (212) 870-3803			Jan. 29, 1998 
 
 
United Methodists select 
delegates for WCC Assembly 
 
 
	by United Methodist News Service 
 
The official United Methodist delegation to the World Council of Churches
(WCC) Assembly in Harare, Zimbabwe, has been selected. 
Meeting Dec. 3-14 at the University of Zimbabwe, the WCC's eighth assembly is
expected to draw up to 4,000 people, including delegates, observers, visitors
and journalists. It will include a special worship service marking the
ecumenical organization's 50th anniversary. 
	With 25 delegates, United Methodists will have one of the largest delegations
at the assembly, according to the Rev. Bruce Robbins, general secretary,
United Methodist Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns. 
Candidates for the delegation were nominated by the commission, with the final
selection approved by the United Methodist Council of Bishops. "It's a diverse
delegation, with six youth (under 30)," he said. 
	During the assembly, delegates will choose among themselves the membership of
the Central Committee. Robbins expects United Methodists will retain four
seats on the committee, the current number allotted. 
	United Methodists now part of the Central Committee are Bishop Melvin Talbert
of the San Francisco Area, who also is on the WCC Executive Committee; Jan
Love of Columbia, S.C., a laywoman long active in the WCC; the Rev. Kathryn
Bannister of Bison, Kan., a youth representative; and Ari  
de Carvalho of Minneapolis, also a youth representative. 
	Talbert, Love and Bannister, a member of the assembly planning committee, are
all part of the Harare delegation. Other episcopal delegates are Bishop Arthur
Kulah of Liberia; Bishop Roy Sano, Los Angeles Area; Bishop William  
Boyd Grove of Charleston, W.Va., the Council of Bishops' ecumenical officer;
Bishop Ruediger Minor, Moscow Area;  and Bishop Sharon Zimmerman Rader,
Wisconsin Area. 
	Clergy delegates are Robbins; the Rev. Randolph Nugent, general secretary,
United Methodist Board of Global Ministries in New York; the Rev. Jean Miller
Schmidt, Iliff School of Theology in Denver; the Rev. Minerva Carcano, Dallas;
and the Rev. Djundu Lunge, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. 
	Lay delegates from the United States include Joyce Sohl, deputy general
secretary, Women's Division, Board of Global Ministries; Thelma Johnson of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Jace Weaver of New Haven, Conn.  
International lay delegates are Junior Markie of Freetown, Sierra Leone; Edith
Jokomo, Harare, Zimbabwe; Luz Dado, Bambang, the Philippines; and Anekumba
Umandjela of Kananga, Democratic Republic of Congo. 
	Youth delegates are Courtney Goto, New York; Samuel Padron, Baguio City,
Philippines; Marcus Thorne, Dorchester, Mass.; Ellen Guldseth, Dallas; and
Beate Kraus, Reutlingen, Germany. 
	The previous WCC assembly took place in 1991 in Canberra, Australia. 
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