Word: gallaway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politics. Next week a rival mission board, the Mission Society for United Methodists, will open for business in Atlanta with $150,000 donated by large churches, and the hint of much more to come. "We can no longer support the direction in which the board has gone," says Ira Gallaway, a Peoria, Ill., pastor who is secretary of the new mission society...
...office consumed an unreasonable share of the agency's budget. The board replies that a large New York staff is necessary because of the scope of the agency's U.S. program. Good News also complains that the board is replacing old-fashioned evangelism with a political crusade. Gallaway charges that the board is biased against hiring anyone "who is not a political leftist advocating liberation theology and radical social change." Support for the mission society includes more moderate church members...