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07583 September 17, 2007
Notes about people
by Jerry Van Marter Presbyterian News Service
The Rev. Sylvia Wilson has been named associate for collegiate ministries in the Evangelism and Church Growth program are of the General Assembly Council of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Wilson, who has pastored several churches, was most recently visiting chaplain at Hamilton College in New York. Prior to that she served as interim and acting chaplain at PC(USA)-related Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA.
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The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has appointed the Rev. Elliot M. Smith as vice-president for funds development. He begins his new work in mid-October.
A longtime fundraising professional, Smith was most recently vice-president for development for Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services in Austin, TX. Previously, he was director of donor/church relations for Thornwell Home and School for Children in South Carolina, and served as a pastor in Florida.
Smith is a graduate of Penn State University and was the first student at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary to earn a dual degree with an M. Div. and an M.B.A. from Bellarmine University.
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The Presbyterian Hunger Program has welcomed two new colleagues: Adam Fischer, a young adult intern who's working with the "Enough for Everyone" program; and Ruth Farrell, a missionary-in-residence working with the Joining Hands Against Hunger program. Farrell was part of the Joining Hands effort in Peru when she served there with her husband, Hunter Farrell, who is now director of the World Mission program area.
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The Rev. D. James Kennedy, who died Sept. 5 at age 76, was widely described in the media as a Presbyterian. Kennedy, a pioneer Christian broadcaster and megachurch pastor whose conservative worldview helped fuel the rise of the so-called religious right in American politics, was a longtime member of the Presbyterian Church in America, which splintered off of the former Presbyterian Church in the United States in 1973.
Kennedy retired as pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in central Florida in Aug. 26 after having suffered a severe heart attack last December. In his pulpit and on his radio program, Kennedy regularly condemned homosexuality and abortion as assaults on the traditional family and also rejected evolution and global warming.
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