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Nov. 7, 2005
Notes about people
by Jerry L. Van Marter
The Rev. Mary Jane Kerr Cornell won the “Day 1” Sermon of the Year Award for 2005 for her Easter Sermon, “Set Free.” The award was presented during a Nov. 1 luncheon at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Atlanta celebrating the 60th anniversary of “Day 1,” the radio program formerly known as “The Protestant Hour.”
Cornell, the daughter and granddaughter of Presbyterian ministers, is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and Columbia Theological Seminary and pastor of Druid Hills Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. The second prize also went to a Presbyterian — the Rev. Robert Ensign, a professor at Atlanta’s Bauder College, who was honored for a sermon based on the Adam and Eve story in Genesis 2. Ensign is a graduate of Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
“Day 1,” produced
and hosted by Peter Wallace, is broadcast on more than 160 radio stations
and also is available
online.
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The Rev. John A. Robinson has been named associate for national disaster response for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA). He succeeds
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Stan Hankins, who retired early this year. |
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Robinson was PDA’s associate for refugee ministry and government relations for more than three years. In his new role, he organizes PDA responses to disasters within the United States and coordinates the work of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Teams (PDATs), volunteer groups that offer their skills and services in the
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aftermath of disasters. Robinson, who served on one of the first PDAT teams in 1995, has been heavily involved in PDA's responses to |
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Rev. John A. Robinson
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hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.
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The Internet Services office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has hired Dana McMahan as a Web content developer. She will work in the Presbyterian Center in Louisville.
McMahan has worked as a senior project coordinator at NetWorld Alliance and as special projects coordinator for the Southern & Eastern Kentucky Tourism Development Association in Somerset, KY.
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Churches Uniting in Christ (formerly the Consultation on Church Union, or COCU) has called the Rev. Thomas E. Dipko to serve as interim director.
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Dipko is an ecumenist and liturgical scholar and a retired minister in the United Church of Christ. He was a member of COCU’s executive committee from 1989 to 2002. He has served as a pastor in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, as conference minister of the Ohio Conference and as an executive of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries. He lives in Berea, OH. Churches Uniting in Christ is headquartered in Cleveland.
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Rev. Thomas Dipko, center
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A conference scheduled for July 5-8, 2006 at the Montreat Conference Center in North Carolina will bring together 15 moderators of General Assemblies of the PC(USA) and presidents or other official representatives of 11 PC(USA)-related seminaries. The conference, titled The Hope of the Church: Celebrating Common Ground, is billed by Merri Bass, Montreat’s vice president for program development, as “a national conversation … to help our pastors lead their churches through turbulence which may follow the 217th General Assembly next June.”
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Merri Bass
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The moderators expected to be on hand include every one from Price Gwynn (1990) to Rick Ufford-Chase (2004-
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2005).
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