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4-November-1998 
98359 
 
    Notes about People 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
    The Rev. Andrea Pfaff, a longtime Presbyterian leader best known as the 
former director of the former Evangelism and Church Development Ministry 
Unit in Louisville, died Oct. 12 after a long bout with cancer. 
    Ordained to the ministry in 1976, Pfaff served as a campus minister, as 
a missionary recruiter, and on synod and presbytery staffs in addition to 
several pastorates.  She also taught at Union Theological Seminary in 
Richmond, Va., and at Florida State University. 
     A Memorial Service to the Resurrection was held Oct.16 at Hudson 
Memorial Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, N.C., where Pfaff was serving as 
Ministry Associate. 
 
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            A Canadian woman and three people from Orthodox member churches 
of the World 
Council of Churches (WCC) are among a total of five staff appointments 
recently made by the WCC Executive Committee. 
            The new appointees are Kristine Greenaway, a member of the 
United Church of Canada, director of the cluster on communication; Manoj 
Kurian, a Malaysian and member of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church 
(Oriental), executive secretary for health and healing in the Team on 
Mission and Evangelism within the Cluster on Issues and Themes; Father 
Kwame Labi of Ghana and an ordained member of the Greek Orthodox 
Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa (Eastern), executive secretary 
for community and justice in mission in the Team on Mission and Evangelism 
within the Cluster on Issues and Themes; John Lamola from South Africa and 
an ordained minister of the Baptist Church of Southern Africa, executive 
secretary for economy and justice in the Team on Justice, Peace and 
Creation within the Cluster on Issues and Themes; and Marina Rizk from 
Syria and a member of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and all 
the East (Eastern), executive secretary of the Team on Regional Relations 
within the Cluster on Relations and Constituencies. 

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