Senior flight attendants on major airlines go just about anywhere they want to go. Sometimes, however, they end up where they had not planned to be. For instance, when Diana Lawrence put in her bid for a couple of nice European trips for June 1985 it didn’t occur to her that she would not be on board when the jumbo jets took off. Nor did she dream then that she would be working for a seminary, not an air
Variety of Buildings Accommodate Growth
Striking designs, flexible floor plans, and unusual contributions of land and labor are among the elements seen in new PCA construction in the past year. Buildings continue to spring up across the denomination, indicat
No ‘Herd’ on His Street
By Ben Edwards. People who thrive on thrills and excitement got more than their share watching segments of the sometimes-insecure securities industry during the past year. Some of the big New York operators in the investment field paid for their high jinks in 1986 with egg on their faces and names turned into mud.
Meanwhile, far away from Wall Street, the St. Louis firm known as A. G. Edwards continued to compile a record of solid accomplishment and steady growth as it prepared to cele
Trying the Book Case
Losing once is not reason to quit. Ask Thomas 0. Kotouc, a lawyer who represented Mobile school authorities and the state of Alabama in the prayer case that went all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court. The nation’s highest tribunal told the Alabama schools that they couldn’t pray – even silently.
Now, the Montgomery attorney and PCA ruling elder is back in court with another aspect of the same issue. If no religion can be tolerated in state schools, then why should approved textbooks prefer the “religion” of humanism? That’s the question that Kotouc and his partner, Thomas F. Parker IV, have pursued in federal court in Mobile. Associated with them in the case is Mobile lawyer Bob Sherling, a PCA eider. The lead plaintiff is Doug Smith, a Montgomery teacher and one of Kotouc’s fellow members at Eastwood Church there. With permission of the court, it is a class action suit in which the attorneys represent more than 600 parents and teachers listed on the original docu
Planters Pick New ‘Paris’
Most North Americans have heard of Timbuktu, but even if they think it’s more real than legendary they usually can’t find it on the map. Fewer are likely to be able to tell how to find Abidjan, where the newest Mission to the World church planting team is being established.
The names may be equally mysterious, but MTW has determined that Abidjan has much greater potential as the site of new work. It is a strate
Making Missions ‘Norm’ for Youth
Every young person goes through certain “rites of passage” before reaching maturity. If Mission to the World realizes a goal it has just set, every PCA young person will have some kind of missions exposure before “growing up and settling down.”
Next summer, MTW will sponsor its first summer missions trip for church youth groups. Plans are being made to send 250 high schoolers to work for a week or two, either overseas or in a North American inner city congregation or a church planting sit