Title: Indianapolis attorney to head CCF board of
directors
Date: November 7, 2000
Disciples News Service
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INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- An Indianapolis attorney, Larry Pugh, has been elected to serve as chairperson of the Christian Church Foundation board of directors for 2001.
The board also elected the Rev. Janet Long, senior pastor of Washington Avenue Christian Church in Elyria, Ohio, as vice chairperson, and Nina Johnson, a laywoman from Corpus Christi, Texas, as secretary.
The board, at its fall meeting in Indianapolis, approved an executive search policy that adopts several of the principles outlined by the General Board last summer to insure an open search process.
The board also:
* Approved the creation of a new position, vice president of major gifts. The person who fills this position will be on track to succeed the foundation's president, the Rev. James P. Johnson, when he retires in 2005. The board appointed a six-person search committee, headed by the Rev. Robert Hill, senior minister of Community Christian Church in Kansas City, Mo.
* Adopted a strategic plan through 2005. The plan projects distributions will reach $14.6 million by 2005, with assets climbing to $381 million. In 1999, the foundation distributed $9.4 million with assets of $245 million.
* Approved a 2001 budget of $2.75 million, up from the 2000 budget of $2.498 million
* Honored outgoing board chair Bob Robuck, a banker from Jefferson City, Mo., and retiring board members, Katherine Haggard of Kansas City, Mo., and Shirley Lucey of Raleigh, N.C.
* Honored the Rev. James S. Oglesby, who is retiring in December as a vice president of development. He has been on the foundation staff since 1989 and was on the board of directors from 1985 to 1989.
* Appointed Marilyn Fiddmont of Houston, Texas, as a planned giving associate who will work out of the foundation's Fort Worth office. Fiddmont, a licensed lay minister, is completing her master of divinity degree and will be ordained next year. Since 1984 she has been the program assistant for the Coastal Plains Area of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Southwest.
* Promoted the Rev. Bobby Hawley to vice president of the Foundation's South Central Zone in Forth Worth.
Welcomed Tom Rowlen, CPA, of Anderson, Ind., as the new assistant vice president of deferred gifts. Rowlen is a lifelong Disciple and son of a Disciples pastor.
The next meeting of the board of directors will be May 1-2, 2001, in Indianapolis.
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