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GA08126

Assembly elects more than 200 persons to fill board, agency and committee slots

By Vicki Fogel Mykles

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Commissioners and advisory delegates followed the General Assembly Nominating Committee report on Thursday morning. Photo by Joseph Williams

SAN JOSE, June 26, 2008 — Commissioners to the 218th General Assembly elected more than 200 persons to serve on the boards, agencies and committees of the various entities of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Challenges to the slate of nominees were made in the Advisory Committee on the Constitution, the GA Permanent Judicial Commission, the PC(USA) Foundation and the GA Nominating Committee. All of the originally nominated candidates were elected except for the Rev. William E. King of the Synod of the Trinity. He lost a seat on the GA Nominating Committee to the Rev. Katherine Purves of the same synod. Purves has served pastorates in small congregations, is a speaker at the Wee Kirk conferences and will provide more diversity as a female clergy member on the committee.

The GA Nominating Committee is committed to diversity in the nominations process. Attention is given to the nomination of equal numbers of ministers (both women and men), laymen and laywomen, ethnic representation, a diversity of ages and a wide range of regions.