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9, 2005
Rev.
Rob Schenck addresses attendees of the Evangelical Church Alliance's Annual Convention
in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. To: National Desk WASHINGTON,
Sept. 8 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The Evangelical Church Alliance (ECA), America's
oldest association of Evangelical ministers, churches and organizations, has appointed
the Reverend Rob Schenck, president of Washington, D.C. based Faith and Action
and its affiliate, the National Clergy Council, to the group's international board
of directors. This will be his second term on the board. The ECA (www.ecainternational.org)
was originally formed in 1887 as the World's Faith Missionary Association, changing
its name in 1931 to the Fundamental Ministerial Association and in 1958 to the
current Evangelical Church Alliance or ECA. The ECA issues credentials and provides
oversight for clergy serving mostly in independent churches, religious organizations,
on the mission field or in institutional and government chaplaincy. Of all U.S.
-based Evangelical church organizations, the ECA currently certifies the largest
number of active duty military chaplains. It is also an member organization of
the National Association of Evangelicals and the Evangelical Council for Financial
Accountability. Rev. Rob Schenck is a commissioned missionary to elected
and appointed officials on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. He has been seen lately
in the news for the prayer vigils that he and a colleague, Presbyterian minister
the Reverend Patrick J. Mahoney, have organized around the nomination of John
Roberts to the United States Supreme Court. Rev. Schenck was also quoted widely
on recent comments by the Reverend Pat Robertson regarding Venezuelan president
Hugo Chavez. Rev. Schenck, who was raised Jewish and professed faith in
Christ as a teenager, has served on Capitol Hill for eleven years. Previous to
this assignment he founded and for 12 years directed Operation Serve International,
a Christian humanitarian relief agency now headquartered in Hamilton, Ohio. Before
that he held posts as an associate pastor and youth minister. He is a graduate
of the Buffalo (N.Y.) School of the Bible, Berean College and Faith Evangelical
Lutheran Seminary where he completed his master of arts in Christian ministry.
He also holds an honorary doctor of divinity from St. Paul Christian University.
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