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AMERICAN BAPTIST NEWS SERVICE 
Office of Communication  
American Baptist Churches USA 
P.O. Box 851, Valley Forge, PA 19482-0851 
Phone: (610)768-2077 / Fax: (610)768-2320 
Web: www.abc-usa.org
Richard W. Schramm, Director 
 E-mail: richard.schramm@abc-usa.org

CAROL FRANKLIN SUTTON NAMED NATIONAL MOVEMENT DIRECTOR FOR 
NEW LIFE 2010
 The Rev. Carol Franklin Sutton, executive director of 
American Baptist Women's Ministries, will become national 
movement director for the denominational NEW LIFE 2010 
emphasis on March 1, 2001.
 NEW LIFE 2010 seeks to plant 1,010 new churches, reach 
1,000,010 new believers, vitalize a multitude of caring 
ministries and equip a host of transformed disciples in 
American Baptist congregations by the year 2010.
 As national movement director Sutton will interface 
with American Baptists at local, regional and national 
levels to support, encourage and promote the goals of NEW 
LIFE 2010.  She will work on behalf of Dr. Jean B. Kim, 
executive director of Educational Ministries; Dr. Aidsand F. 
Wright-Riggins III, executive director of National 
Ministries; and the NEW LIFE 2010 Leadership Council of the 
General Executive Committee.
 Sutton began serving as executive director of American 
Baptist Women's Ministries in January 1994. Prior to her 
tenure there she served for 11 years as a commissioned 
American Baptist home missionary in National Ministries' 
Office of Governmental Relations in Washington, D.C.  She 
formerly worked as minister of Christian education at First 
Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.; as information assistant 
at the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs; and as a 
high school English teacher.
 In announcing the appointment Wright-Riggins noted 
Sutton's wealth of experience in local church leadership, 
denominational programmatic direction and management of 
American Baptist Women's Ministries which "uniquely equips 
her for this role at this time in our history."  In 
addition, he said, "Carol Sutton's experience on the ABC 
General Executive Council and her years of collegial 
interacting with regional and national executives is 
invaluable to the future we envision."
 The Rev. Karen Selig, president of American Baptist 
Women's Ministries, said the organization will miss Sutton's 
leadership.  "Her gifted leadership has strengthened us," 
she said, "and we look forward with great expectation to the 
future God has planned for ABW Ministries.  Our consolation 
as Carol leaves is the knowledge that in her new calling 
with NEW LIFE 2010 she will continue to touch the lives of 
women and girls in every church she visits."

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