Calvin Synod Herald, 1983 (83. évfolyam, 2-4. szám)

1983-08-01 / 4. szám

CALVIN SYNOD HERALD

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REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA

GENERAL SYNOD ELECTIONS

Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Rev.Carol Joyce Brun, White Plains, NY, was elected secretary of the 1.75 million member United Church of Christ. Replacing the Rev. Joseph H. Evans, St. Albans, NY, who is retiring after 16 years in the post, she is the first women to be voted an officer of the Unied Church of Christ and has achieved the highest post of any women in a mainline Protestant denomination.

Other officers of the church are its president and director of finance and treasurer.

In another vote, the United Church’s biennial policy making General Synod chose the Rev. John H. Krueger, Fort Wayne, IN, as moderator of the Synod, its first moderator from that state. It earlier elected Janeece Lichte Dent, Lexington, MO, and Guy T. Outlaw, Buffalo, NY, assistant moderators.

The assistant for administration to the United Church of Christ president since 1976, Ms. Brun acted as manager of the office of the secretary of the denomination from 1976 to 1977, when Dr. Evans served as president. From 1974 to 1976, she was director of research and program development with the denomination’s Center for Social Action, and from 1972 to 1973, she was staff assistant to the United Church’s Task Force on Leadership Development.She was assistant to the director of the Continuing Education for Professionals program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis from 1969 to 1972. Ms. Brun is a member of Scarsdale Congregational United Church of Christ, NY.

As secretary, Ms. Brun will be responsible for keeping the official records of General Synod proceedings and of the meetings of the Executive Council, which acts as the Synod between meetings of the delegate body. She will also serve as statistician for the United Church and as editor of its Yearbook, maintaining a record of more than 10,000 ministers and over 6,400 churches. In addition, she will be administrator of the General Synod and an interpreter of the national church’s work.

Dr. Evans, who anticipates filling interim preaching assignments after his retirement, was first elected secretary of the United Church in 1967 and was re-elected in 1971, 1975 and 1979. When the president of the denomination died of cancer in 1976, he was elected the United Church’s third president to finish out the term. He will serve as secretary until the fall, when his duties regarding the current General Synod are completed.

Before becoming a national officer of the denomination, Dr. Evans was minister of Church of Good Shepherd, Chicago, from 1953 to 1967. He was minister of Mt. Zion Congregational Church, Cleveland, from 1947 to 1953; associate general secretary of the Connecticut Council of Churches, Hartford, from 1946 to 1947; minister of Grace Congregational Church of Harlem, New York City, from 1942 to 1946, and at St. Luke' Congregational Church, Brooklyn, in 1942. He is a member of St. Albans Congregational United Church of Christ, Queens.

Mr. Krueger, the new moderator, has been pastor of Peace United Church of Christ, Fort Wayne, since he organized it as a new church start in 1975. The immediate past president of the denomination’s Indiana- Kentucky Conference and a former chairperson of its board of directors, he has served on the conference’s personnel, church and ministry, and budget commitees. He is a member of the Greater Fort Wayne Campus Ministry Committee, the Peace Education Committee of Associated Churches of Fort Wayne and the Fort Wayne Ministerial Association.

The moderator, elected for a two-year term, presides over the General Synod when it is in session and is a member of the Executive Council.

A student at the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law, Mrs. Dent is a member of the National and Missouri State Associations of Parliamentarians, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, the Christian Legal Society and the Student American Bar Association. She is a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, Lexington.

Mr. Outlaw is principal of Triangle Academy, Buffalo. A member of New Covenant United Church of Christ, he is superintendent of the Sunday School and has been president of the congregation. He is a past moderator of the denomination’s New York Conference and sits on the futures committee of its Western New York Association. He is also active in a number of national educational and instructional organizations.

Officers of the Calvin Synod: Bishop - Dr. John Butosi, Deputy-Bishop - Dr. Francis Vitéz, Treasurer - Rev. Zoltán Király, Secretary - Rev. Stephan Nagy, Synod-Presbyter - Frank Dudás.

A Kálvin Egyházkerület májusban választott tisztviselői: Dr. Bütösi János - püspök, Dr. Vitéz Ferenc - püspökhelyettes, Király Zoltán - pénztáros, Nagy István - jegyző, Dudás Ferenc - egyházkerületi főgondnok. (Nagy István kivételével a vezetők a keleti egyházmegye tagjai.)