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Note #9012 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

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Nov. 7, 2005

Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

	The Rev. Mary Jane Kerr Cornell won the "Day 1" Sermon of the Year
Award for 2005 for her Easter Sermon, "Set Free." The award was presented
during a Nov. 1 luncheon at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Atlanta
celebrating the 60th anniversary of "Day 1," the radio program formerly known
as "The Protestant Hour."
	Cornell, the daughter and granddaughter of Presbyterian ministers, is
a graduate of Agnes Scott College and Columbia Theological Seminary and
pastor of Druid Hills Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. The second prize also
went to a Presbyterian - the Rev. Robert Ensign, a professor at Atlanta's
Bauder College, who was honored for a sermon based on the Adam and Eve story
in Genesis 2. Ensign is a graduate of Louisville Presbyterian Theological
Seminary.
	"Day 1," produced and hosted by Peter Wallace, is broadcast on more
than 160 radio stations and also is available online, at www.Day1.net. 

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	Churches Uniting in Christ (formerly the Consultation on Church
Union, or COCU) has called the Rev. Thomas E. Dipko to serve as interim
director.				 
Dipko is an ecumenist and liturgical scholar and a retired minister in the
United Church of Christ. He was a member of COCU's executive committee from
1989 to 2002. He has served as a pastor in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, as
conference minister of the Ohio Conference and as an executive of the United
Church Board for Homeland Ministries. He lives in Berea, OH. Churches Uniting
in Christ is headquartered in Cleveland.  
 
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The Internet Services office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has hired
Dana McMahan as a Web content developer. She will work in the Presbyterian
Center in Louisville.
	McMahan has worked as a senior project coordinator at NetWorld
Alliance and as special projects coordinator for the Southern & Eastern
Kentucky Tourism Development Association in Somerset, KY. 

 
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	A conference scheduled for July 5-8, 2006 at the Montreat Conference
Center in North Carolina will bring together 15 moderators of General
Assemblies of the PC(USA) and presidents or other official representatives of
11 PC(USA)-related seminaries. The conference, titled The Hope of the Church:
Celebrating Common Ground, is billed by Merri Bass, Montreat's vice president
for program development, as "a national conversation ... to help our pastors
lead their churches through turbulence which may follow the 217th General
Assembly next June."
	The moderators expected to be on hand include every one from Price
Gwynn (1990) to Rick Ufford-Chase (2004-2005).

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The Rev. John A. Robinson has been named associate for national disaster
response for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA). He succeeds Stan
Hankins, who retired early this year. 
	Robinson was PDA's associate for refugee ministry and government
relations for more than three years. In his new role, he organizes PDA
responses to disasters within the United States and coordinates the work of
the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Teams (PDATs), volunteer groups that
offer their skills and services in the aftermath of disasters. Robinson
served on one of the first PDAT teams in 1995. He has been heavily involved
in PDA's responses to hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

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