In return, the Council is requiring a plan for sound financial management of the college or a plan for an alternate use of the college s property, which the denomination still owns. In a preliminary revision of its mission handbook, the Worldwide Ministries Division Committee is proposing that patterns of mission service be changed to include one year of mission education in U.S. churches.
Missionaries currently serve three-year terms.
It says it would not be possible to set higher salary levels because of current budgetary restrictions. Ga. Mendenhall was elected by Columbia s board of trustees June 17 to succeed the Rev. Douglas Oldenburg, who is retiring at the end of June. Mendenhall, pastor of the 800-member Westminster Presbyterian Church in Austin, has served as an adjunct professor at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and is currently moderator of the General Assembly s Permanent Judicial Commission. She was heartily endorsed by Oldenburg. Her election must still be confirmed by the 212 th General Assembly.