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November 5, 2009
Notes about people
At its recent meeting in Washington, D.C., the directors of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Board of Pensions (BOP) elected Andrew J. Browne as corporate secretary. He succeeds the Rev. William Ross Forbes, who died earlier this year.
In this role, Browne will prepare responses to BOP and General Assembly actions, serve as BOP parliamentarian, and provide counsel and assistance to board staff on matters of Presbyterian polity and governance. He also will be responsible for preparing board of directors meetings and maintaining the corporate records and minutes.
The Colorado native has serve in all governing bodies of the PC(USA). He has been a youth advisory delegate and assembly assistant at several General Assemblies and has served on the General Assembly Council and the Board of Pensions. He was moderator of the Presbytery of Denver in 2005.
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The Rev. Day Carper, who served as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) missionary in Africa for 32 years, died Oct. 7 in Asheville, N.C., three weeks short of his 97th birthday
A native of Lewisburg, W.V., Carper graduated from Hampden Sydney College and Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. In 1940, he was appointed as an evangelistic missionary to the (former) Belgian Congo. Because of the German submarine menace in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II, Carper had to travel west through the Panama Canal to California and on to Borneo, arriving at the mission post by way of South Africa 72 days after leaving New York.
As a missionary he traveled to villages with African ministers and elders, trained church officers, organized churches, was engaged in the teaching programs of the seminary and Bible Schools for both ordained and lay leadership for the Presbyterian church in Congo. He and another missionary compiled the first Bible concordance in Tshiluba, a Bantu language of that area.
During his retirement, he and his wife, Blanche, spent two, 3-month periods as Volunteers in Mission at the Presbyterian/Episcopal Mission Hospital in Leogane, Haiti.
Carper is survived by his wife, their five children, nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. A memorial service was held Oct. 31 at Givens Estates United Methodist Retirement Center in Asheville.
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The Rev. Francis W. Pritchard, 97, a Presbyterian minister who combined pastoral ministry in the U.S. with preaching missions around the world, died Sept. 29 in La Jolla, Calif.
Pritchard pastored congregations in Texas, Tennessee and Iowa, all of which were marked by engagement in global mission and social issues, including civil rights and more recently the rights of gays and lesbians.
His lifetime concern with Presbyterian mission throughout the world was reflected in the invitations he accepted to preach in churches in Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Berlin, Blantyre (Malawi), Cairo, Harare, Islamabad, Jerusalem, Kabul, Lahore, Mexico City, Moscow, New Delhi, Paris, Seoul, and Tehran. From 1969 to 1977 he served as a PC(USA) mission personnel consultant for Asia.
Pritchard’s first two wives, Lorine Pritchard and Elsie Wilbanks Pritchard, predeceased him. He is survived by his wife Jeanne; seven daughters and six sons; three nephews and one niece; 25 grandchildren and eight great-granchildren.
A memorial service will be held Nov. 8 at the chapel of White Sands at La Jolla.
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