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07764 November 27, 2007
Notes about people
by Jerry Van Marter Presbyterian News Service
The Rev. Gary Torrens, recently retired middle governing body coordinator for the General Assembly Council and the Office of the General Assembly, has flunked retirement.
On Nov. 16, Redwoods Presbytery elected Torrens to a two-year term as interim associate executive presbyter for transformation. Torrens, who will live in Napa, CA, will begin Feb. 1, 2008 working with presbytery committees to develop healthy congregations in the presbytery.
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The Rev. John Saint Helier Gibaut, a Canon in the Anglican Church of Canada, will head the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission on Faith and Order as of January 2008. He succeeds the Rev. Thomas F. Best, a pastor in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the U.S., who retires at the end of November.
The 120-member Faith and Order Commission, a founding movement of the WCC in 1946, is mandated to study questions of faith, church order and worship which bear on the unity of the church, and also to examine social, cultural, political, racial and other factors which affect that unity. Faith and Order, which includes representatives of WCC member churches and also non-member churches such as the Roman Catholic Church, has been called the most representative church-based theological forum in the world.
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Peggy Joan Schlorholtz, who with her husband Alfred served as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) missionary in Pakistan and Nepal for 35 years, died Nov. 10 in a Palm Harbor, FL, nursing home. Schlorholtz, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease 12 years ago, was 82.
Peggy and Alfred served in Pakistan from 1954 until the mid-1970s. After the Schlorholtz family refused to leave Pakistan during the 1960s war between India and Pakistan, a Pakistani military officer presented them with a spent artillery shell inscribed to "the only American family in Lahore in 1965.
In their 50s, Peggy and Al moved to Nepal, where Peggy served as a hospital social worker and translator. To learn Nepali, they lived for a time with a family in a mud hut, sharing outdoor plumbing and subsisting for months at a time on a diet of lentil soup. They retired in 1989.
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