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May 16, 2008
Notes about people
The Rev. Teresa Stricklin has been named associate for worship in the Theology Worship and Education ministries area of the General Assembly Council. She was formerly assistant professor of homiletics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She has also taught at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and served several pastorates in Tennessee.
Stricklin is a graduate of Marshall University, Middle Tennessee State University and earned her M.Div and Ph.D. degrees at Vanderbilt University.
In her new position, Stricklin will take major responsibility for a new initiative, “Academies for Missional Preaching.” This initiative is designed to help ministers deal with the worship and preaching challenges that emerge from the reality that North America is a mission field. “The problem that Missional Preaching Academies is designed to address is a crucial one,” says Dr. Stricklen. “Many clergy did not learn how to think theologically about the issues involved in preaching within today’s thoroughly secular culture. The work of proclaiming a missional gospel requires thinking theologically about the post-establishment cultural situation that confronts preachers.”
Stricklin will begin her service in July.
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Marsha Mazza, wife of the Rev. D. Carl Mazza, died May 12 in hospice care after a four-year battle with cancer.
In 1981 the Mazzas founded Meeting Ground in Elkton, MD, a ministry to the homeless and other marginalized people. Marsha worked particularly with homeless women and their children as director of the Meeting Ground’s Wayfarers’ House.
Carl Mazza is a candidate for moderator of the upcoming 218th General Assembly in San Jose, CA.
Services for Marsha Mazza will be held May 17 at First Presbyterian Church of Chesapeake City, MD.
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