New leaders are elected for Presbyterian Coalition
The Layman Online, February 12, 2002
The board of directors of the Presbyterian Coalition has elected its first lay person – Peggy Hedden of Columbus, Ohio – as a co-moderator of the renewal organization.
Hedden, who is vice chairman of the Presbyterian Lay Committee, will serve as co-moderator with the Rev. Doug Pratt, pastor of the 1,850-member Memorial Park Presbyterian Church near Pittsburgh.
The Coalition has also named a new executive director, the Rev. Carmen Fowler of Rabun Gap, Ga.
An elder in the 500-member Miffin Presbyterian Church of Gahanna, Ohio, Hedden formerly served as a research attorney for the Ohio Legislature. She is the mother of two grown children.
Pratt, one of the leaders in the Confessing Church Movements, received his master of divinity degree from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and a doctor of ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Fowler received her master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently a doctor of ministry candidate at Gordon Conwell. She has served four years on the Coalition board, including a stint as vice moderator.
Hedden, Pratt and Fowler will succeed co-moderators Jerry Andrews of Glen Ellyn, Ill., and Anita Bell of Upper Darby, Pa., and executive coordinator William Giles of Birmingham, Ala.
The Coalition sponsors an annual event called a Gathering. The 2001 Gathering attracted a record 1,300 pastors and lay people.