wfn.org | Sara Lisherness is Tapped to Head Peacemaking Program

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7-October-1999 
99337 
 
    Sara Lisherness is Tapped to Head Peacemaking Program 
 
    Longtime Associate is Promoted to Top Job 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Sara Pottschmidt Lisherness, an associate with the 
Presbyterian Peacemaking Program (PPP) since 1992, has been named 
coordinator of program, effective Oct. 4. 
 
    Lisherness succeeds Gary Payton, who resigned as coordinator earlier 
this year to accompany his wife to Idaho, where she accepted a pastorate. 
 
    Lisherness, who came to Louisville from Southern California, has been 
associate for governing body support in the Peacemaking Program, assisting 
congregations, presbyteries and synods as they engage in peacemaking 
ministries. 
 
    According to the Rev. Ed Craxton, associate director for the 
Congregational Ministries Division's Christian Education Program Area - 
where the PPP is lodged - said the search committee "was impressed by 
Sara's gifts, her thorough, in-depth knowledge of the program, her 
commitment to working in partnership, her understanding of both the 
national and global issues of peacemaking as well as the spiritual 
dimensions, her vision for the future, and the self awareness of her 
personal growth and potential for future growth." 
 
    Lisherness has edited many of the resources published by the 
Peacemaking Program, including "Seeking to Be Faithful Together: Guidelines 
for Presbyterians During Times of Disagreement" and "Proclaiming the Good 
News of God's Peace," an annually produced peacemaking Advent devotional 
booklet.  She was co-producer of  the video "Cherishing God's Creation" and 
co-edited "Striking Terror No More: The Church Responds to Domestic 
Violence."  She has been the content editor for two issues of "Church & 
Society" magazine: "Violence: Roots, Realities, Redemption" published in 
1995 and "Hate" published in 1999. 
 
    Lisherness is a graduate of Miami University in Ohio and attended San 
Francisco Theological Seminary in Southern California.  A Presbyterian 
elder currently serving on the session of her congregation in Louisville, 
she is married to John Lisherness and is the mother of Kara, 20, Peter 17, 
and Kate 13. 

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