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GA06099
Challengers win two advisory committee posts
Most of nominating committee's choices approved by commissioners
by John Sniffen
BIRMINGHAM, June 20 * Two challenge nominees for positions on the Advocacy Committee on Women's Concerns (ACWC) were elected by the 217th General Assembly on Tuesday.
Aisha Brooks-Lytle, an African American candidate for ministry in Philadelphia Presbytery on the staff at Olney Presbyterian Church, and Maria Cardenas-Baez, a Hispanic elder and social worker in Los Angeles, won election.
Brooks-Lytle defeated Lillian Oats, an African American elder from Grand Canyon Presbytery, who has worked with the Phoenix Birthing Project and volunteered to help raise the self-esteem of women in prison. The vote was 295 to 185.
Cardenas-Baez narrowly defeated the General Assembly Nominating Committee's (GANC) nominee for re-election, Redwoods Presbytery associate executive for program development Aleida Jernigan, by a 248-241 vote.
The Rev. Sarah Colwill, the third nominee to the ACWC and an associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Springfield Township, Flourtown, PA, won re-election to a second term by a 305-185 vote over the Rev. Fairlight Collins-Jones, co-pastor at Woodland Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. Colwill is co-chair of the advisory committee.
Among other duties, the Advocacy Committee on Women's Concerns evaluates and monitors how policies, procedures, programs and resources impact the status and position of women in the church.
Overall, there were 10 challenges to the General Assembly Nominating Committee's list of almost 200 nominees, and one to a nomination to the GANC by 216th General Assembly moderator Rick Ufford-Chase.
Three nominees to the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy were also challenged by nominations from the floor of the plenary, but all three won election. The Assembly elected retired seminary professor, the Rev. Lewis S. Mudge of San Francisco Presbytery, over the Rev. Lawrence D. Spencer from New Covenant Presbytery; World Bank African specialist William Saint of National Capital Presbytery over oil industry professional Gary John Green of Grand Canyon Presbytery; and University of Detroit religion and ethics professor Gloria Albrecht over Institute for Religion and Democracy vice president Alan Wisdom of Georgetown, DC.
The Assembly elected two nominees to the General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission over challengers. The Rev. Mary Eleanor Johns, admissions director at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, was elected over the Rev. Catherine Purves, pastor of Bellevue United Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. The Rev. Ronald Bullis, pastor of Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Hopewell, VA, defeated the Rev. William Andrew (Bill) Stewart Jr., retired presbytery executive and former Navy chaplain from Coastal Carolina Presbytery.
The Assembly elected St. Augustine Presbytery executive Paul Hooker over challenger David Snellgrove, retired executive of the Living Waters Synod, to the General Assembly Nominating Committee.
Ufford-Chase's nominee for the GANC, the Rev. Frank Deming Jr., a pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Rehobeth Beach, DE, was elected over challenger, the Rev. John F. Sloop, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, VA.
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