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Rhodes named vice-moderator


By Paula R. Kincaid
The Layman Online

Wednesday, June 23, 1999

FORT WORTH – Newly elected Moderator Freda Gardner named the Rev. Floyd Rhodes as vice-moderator of the 211th General Assembly on Sunday afternoon.

Rhodes, a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, is an associate executive presbyter for ethnic and urban concerns in the Greater Atlanta Presbytery.

Gardner was elected moderator Saturday night on a second ballot. Gardner received 270 votes, Frank Diaz, 166, Walter Ungerer, 69, and Charles W. Kim, 24.


Freda Gardner elected moderator
– June 19, 1999, The Layman Online
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