by Bill Lancaster

Stock has specialized in outreach to tribal peoples but has also supervised and mentored other pastors. Margie has taught at two schools in Egypt, led Bible studies and done literacy work in Pakistan, and "provided the ministry of hospitality in the home, without which in many cultures there is no prospect of developing meaningful relationships for witness to the gospel," said Marian McClure, director of the PC(USA)'s Worldwide Ministries Division.

McClure said the Stocks and others who have reached out to tribal people have brought the PC(USA) "back to its roots as a premier frontier

PFR presented its Lydia Fund Award to Irene Pak, a Korean-American student at McCormick Theological Seminary.

The featured speaker at the Wednesday morning breakfast was the Rev. Lloyd Ogilvie, a former chaplain of the U.S. Senate. In his address, "The Red Ember in the White Ash," Ogilvie said the flame of passion for ministry sometimes dies down to an ember that needs to be fanned with the wind of the Spirit to get it burning again.

Ogilvie said God wants all of us, and wants to use us where we are. "If you can't be used where you are, you can't be used," he said, "because that's where you are."