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Note #7460 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

03-October-2002
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Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

Gary Luhr, associate director for communication for the General Assembly
Council for the past eight years, has resigned in order to become executive
director of the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities (APCU).
He will begin his new work by the first of November. 

APCU represents and serves 66 colleges and seven secondary schools with
historic ties to the PC(USA). It operates in close collaboration with the
Higher Education Program Area of the National Ministries Division in
Louisville. Luhr will be moving from the fifth floor to the mezzanine of the
Presbyterian Center there.

In addition to his work with the church, Luhr has more than 30 years'
experience in communication with The Associated Press, the Kentucky
Legislative Research Commission, and the Kentucky Association of Electric
Cooperatives. He is married with two grown children and is an elder at Harvey
Browne Memorial Presbyterian Church in Louisville.

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The Evangelism and Church Development area of the National Ministries
Division (PCUSA) has hired the Rev. Charles Denison as associate for new
church development.  He began his new work Sept. 30. Denison, a minister for
22 years, was most recently a new church development pastor in Fishers, IN.
He previously pastored churches in Newark, OH; Rochelle, IL; and Flora, IN.
He has served as adjunct faculty at Dubuque Theological Seminary and has been
a featured speaker at numerous conferences and workshops.

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The Rev. John Lindner, a Presbyterian minister, has been named director of
development for Yale Divinity School. He began his new work Sept. 25. 

During the 1990s, Lindner was director of development and planning for the
Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches in Bossey, Switzerland,
and as director of the Ecumenical Trust for the WCC and for the National
Council of Churches in New York. Previously he served as an ecumenical
officer for the Presbyterian Church (USA).

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Leslie H. Bethell, formerly seminar program coordinator for the Presbyterian
Church (USA) United Nations Office in New York, has accepted a position as an
intern in the National Volunteers Office of the National Ministries Division
in Louisville. She began her new work Sept. 3.

Bethell's successor in the internship post at the U.N. Office is Joel
Hanisek, a native of Knoxville, TN, who graduated from Davidson College in
North Carolina. Hanisek has done graduate study at Cambridge University and
at the School for International Training in Israel. He also began Sept. 3.

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Helen Parmley, a Presbyterian journalist who covered three popes, dozens of
bishops and a host of other key religion stories during a distinguished
career, received the Religion Newswriters Association's Lifetime Achievement
Award Sept. 21 at the RNA's annual conference in Nashville, TN.

Parmley, a past RNA president, retired in 1992 after many years as the
religion writer for the Dallas Morning News.

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The Rev. Lloyd Geering, a minister who was tried for heresy in 1968 by the
Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, was congratulated by that church's
General Assembly on Sept. 27 upon receiving the New Zealand government's
Order of Merit.

Geering, emeritus professor of religious studies at Victoria University,
Wellington, New Zealand, was honored for "taking theological discourse beyond
the universities, seminary and the church into the public arena." In the 34
years since he was acquitted by the church courts of doctrinal error and
disturbing the peace of the church, Geering has been a public figure of
considerable renown in New Zealand where he is in constant demand as a
lecturer and as a commentator on religion and related matters on both
television and radio.

Geering is currently in the United States, lecturing and meeting with "The
Jesus Seminar" in northern California.

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