PFR executive director announces resignation
The Layman Online, September 25, 2006
The executive director of Presbyterians For Renewal has announced his resignation, effective Jan. 5, 2007.
Michael R. Walker, who assumed his post Jan. 3, 2005, cited travel “away from my young family and away from my Ph.D. dissertation” as the reasons for his resignation.
“My Christian vocation as father and husband,” he wrote in a letter posted on the PFR Web site, “and my continued pursuit of my academic degree, have required me to make the difficult decision to resign from my position.”
The executive committee of PFR, in a letter written on behalf of the board of directors, said that it accepted Walker’s resignation “with genuine sadness.”
“When PFR ‘called’ Michael,” the executive committee said in its letter, “we believed the work would not prevent him from having enough time with his young family or to complete his Ph.D. dissertation. However, the state of the denomination is such that the last two years have been more demanding than we expected.”
The executive committee said that it will work with Walker during the remainder of his tenure “to address the many changes in the life of the church,” adding that it will be assisted by “a consulting firm to engage in a full assessment of our ministries and activities. This work will begin in earnest at our Board meeting later this month.”