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15-June-1998 
GA98037 
 
    Curtis Kearns Unanimously Recommended For Additional Term 
 
    by Bill Lancaster 
 
CHARLOTTE, N.C.--The Assembly Committee on Mission Coordination and Budgets 
unanimously voted to recommend Curtis A.  Kearns, Jr., to the General 
Assembly for a second term as director of the National Ministries Division 
of General Assembly Council (GAC). 
    At its Monday afternoon session, the committee voted for Kearns 48-0-0 
by a show of hands, then gave him a standing ovation. 
    GAC members Leon Calhoun and Sandra Hawley presented the review 
committee's report.  Hawley, chair of the National Ministries Division 
(NMD) Committee, cited Kearns' "commitment to Christ and the Church, 
theological insights, vision for National Ministries Division, and 
effectiveness in planning, organizing and implementing tasks." 
    She referred to Kearns as a "decision maker," and said he was very 
helpful to the NMD committee in their work.  She said her relationship to 
Kearns was "one that I have valued both personally and professionally, 
personally because that commitment to Christ and the church comes through 
every time we talk.  He is concerned about me as a person and what I am 
doing..." 
      In contrast to the recent end-of-term reviews of former GAC executive 
director James Brown and former Congregational Ministries Division Director 
Eunice Poethig, not a single negative note was sounded by the review 
committee. 
    The review process included sending out 75 questionnaires to 
individuals evaluating Kearns' work.  Sixty-three usable (signed) responses 
were received, and the input was very positive, Calhoun reported.  The 
process also included a two-hour face to face interview, and the approval 
of the NMD committee. 
    Kearns, in a statement during the discussion time before the vote, said 
he was "thankful" for the opportunity to serve.  He said, "I feel that it 
is a "true call that I am answering, and I am committed to making the best 
of the call in my service to God and in the ministry of our Lord Jesus 
Christ." 
    He said, "I think that a national program is important, not because it 
should be there to run things--there is no particular advantage in 
that--but so it can work cooperatively to strengthen the total program of 
mission in the church." 

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