 Presbytery executive is candidate The Presbyterian Layman Volume 34, Number 1 Posted January 24, 2001
Sale joins Nancy Maffett, an elder from Colorado Springs, Colo., in the race for the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s highest elected office. She was endorsed by Pueblo Presbytery. General presbyter of the Presbytery of the Peaks, Sale previously served as executive presbyter for Missouri Union Presbytery and has also pastored churches in Kentucky and Virginia. While acknowledging that the issue of human sexuality is very important to the church and will no doubt will be the most hotly debated topic at the assembly, Sale told the presbytery that “there are more basic issues which are being left unattended, particularly the future well-being of our congregations and the strength of our clergy and lay leadership.” He added, “A survivalist anxiety has captured the heart of this great and historic denomination, which needs to be shaken off to address the spiritual needs of 21st century America. Voices from the left and from the right of our church have even called for a division of our fellowship, which has further sapped the spiritual energies of the broad middle of our Presbyterian Church.” He called for “a re-forming effort” with its central focus “in the work of the 173 presbyteries, which are the middle governing bodies of the Presbyterian Church. This is where the well-being of congregations and their leadership are most immediately addressed.” Sale was born and raised in Charleston, W.Va. He graduated from Davidson (N.C.) College in 1964 and from Union Theological Seminary-PSCE in Richmond, Va., in 1968. He did other post-graduate work at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and at Union-PSCE. He has three grown children with his wife, Frances Wood Sale, who is an elementary guidance counselor in the Lynchburg (Va.) City Public Schools. |
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