| LOUISVILLE—Two former
national staff members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) were recognized
here on Feb. 13 during the regular winter meeting of the General
Assembly Council (GAC).
Acting on the recommendation of the National Ministries Division
Committee (NMDC), the GAC commended the ministries of the Rev.
Floyd N. Rhodes Jr. and the Rev. A. Michael Warren.
Rhodes served for nearly two years as the PC(USA)’s interim
associate director of higher education in the National Ministries
Division before retiring last month.
“Floyd has served with distinction, providing stability
during a transitional period, supplying capable and competent
management, and offering spiritual leadership and guidance to
the organization as a whole,” NMDC said in its recommendation.
Warren left the PC(USA)’s national staff at the end of
last year after serving in Churchwide Personnel Services (CPS)
since Jan. 2001. While with CPS, he provided consultation, training
and resources to presbytery committees on ministry (COMs), as
well as to ministers and congregations. He is now interim pastor
of East Brentwood Presbyterian Church in East Brentwood, TN.
“One of Mike’s special contributions has been to
emphasize ‘Building Healthy Pastoral Relationships,’
recognizing that the COM is called to be the steward of pastoral
relationships,” NMDC said.
Rhodes has been an assistant pastor in New York and pastor of
congregations in Los Angeles, Princeton, NJ, Wilmington, DE and
Cleveland, OH. He also has worked for the Chicago Presbytery and
the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta.
Rhodes served on the GAC for six years and was a commissioner
to the “re-uniting General Assembly of 1983. He was vice
moderator of the 211th Assembly in Fort Worth, TX, in 1999.
He also is a former adjunct professor at the Interdenominational
Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, where he taught Presbyterian
Church history and polity to students of Johnson C. Smith Theological
Seminar.
Warren earned a M.Div. degree from Union Theological Seminary
and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, VA,
and a Doctorate of Ministry from McCormick Theological Seminary
in Chicago. He has served as pastor of Beverly Hills Presbyterian
Church in Huntington, WV, and as an associate executive presbyter
of Salem Presbytery.
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