Title: Former USA Today columnist to address
98 Quadrennial Assembly
Date: April 29, 1997
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: news@cm.disciples.org
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INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- Former USA Today columnist Barbara Reynolds headlines the list of speakers for the 1998 Quadrennial Assembly of the International Christian Women's Fellowship.
The June 24-28 event at Purdue University will attract some 4,000 Disciples women and ecumenical guests from around the world. The assembly theme is "Rekindle the Flame."
Reynolds, an ordained minister, will address the assembly June 26, according the Rev. Claudia Grant, Quadrennial coordinator.
Other assembly speakers include Jim and Kathy McGinnis, authors and founders of the Institute for Peace and Justice, and Ophelia Ortega Suarez, president of the Evangelical Theological Seminary, Matanzas, Cuba. The McGinnises will speak June 27. Suarez addresses the gathering June 25.
Kicking off the assembly June 24 will be the Rev. Cynthia L. Hale, pastor of Ray of Hope Christian Church, Decatur, Ga. Speaking during the June 28 closing ceremony will be Susan Shank Mix, a Disciples laywoman and president of Church Women United.
Bible study during the assembly will take an interfaith approach through leaders Rabbi Sandra Eisenberg Sasso, Indianapolis, and the Rev. Nancy Heimer. A children's book author, Sasso and her spouse are "the first rabbinical couple in world Jewish history," Grant added. Sasso also writes children's books. Heimer is a retired Homeland Ministries executive in the former Department of Church Women.
Registration for the quadrennial event begins July 25 during the 1997 General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Denver.
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