Governing body moderators to
gather in Louisville
GA moderator Syngman Rhee hosts parley on
"unity and diversity" with Jack Haberer as keynote speaker
by Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - 1-May-2001 - Moderators from most of the 173
presbyteries and 16 synods will gather here next weekend for the annual
moderators' conference, hosted each spring by the General Assembly
moderator.
This year's moderator, the Rev. Syngman Rhee, has chosen the theme
"Unity in the Midst of Diversity" as the theme for the April
27-29 gathering.
Keynote speaker is well-known evangelical the Rev. Jack Haberer, who
will review his new book, God Views, The Convictions that Drive us
and Divide Us. Haberer is pastor of Clear Lake Presbyterian Church
in Houston and former president of the Presbyterian Coalition, an
organization of conservative individuals and groups within the PC(USA).
Moderators will visit program staff at the Presbyterian Center the
afternoon of April 27 and have an opportunity to walk a labyrinth in the
center's chapel. Worship services will be led by Rhee and General
Assembly stated clerk the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick..
Workshops include issues before the General Assembly, the nuts and bolts
of being a moderator and what presbyteries are doing with the theme of
"Unity in the Midst of Diversity" in response to a request by
the 1999 General Assembly.
