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 From nobody@wfn.org  Mon Nov  6 00:00:00 2000
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
Date: November 6, 2000
on the Web: http://www.disciples.org
E-mail: CWillis@oc.disciples.org

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	INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- The Rev. Ronald L. Parker, Bloomington, Ind., is the
new regional minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the
Central Rocky Mountain region.

	Parker comes to the new post from a 16-year tenure as senior minister with
First Christian Church in Bloomington. He began with the Central Rocky
Mountain region Nov. 1.

	The regional-minister-elect was associate regional minister of the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Indiana from 1979 to 1984 and has
held pastorates in Connecticut and New York. 

	He has served on numerous committees and commissions in the Northeast and
Indiana regions. Parker also has been active with ministerial groups and
human service agencies in Elmira, N.Y., and in Bloomington. While in
Bloomington he served on the Monroe County United Ministries board and
chaired its personnel committee. He also served on an advisory board with
Indiana University and was a student advocate at the IU campus. 

	A native of Colorado Springs, Colo., he has a bachelor of arts degree
(1965) from Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. He earned a master of
divinity degree (1969) from Yale University Divinity School, New Haven,
Conn., and a doctor of ministry degree (1982) from Christian Theological
Seminary, Indianapolis.

	He and his spouse, Kathleen, have two adult children, David and Kristin.

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