Rick Ufford-Chase
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Rick Ufford-Chase, a border mission worker from the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona, was elected General Assembly Moderator of the 216th General Assembly on June 26, 2004. Ufford-Chase was 40 years old at the time, the youngest PC (USA) moderator in recent history.
Ufford-Chase was the first Presbyterian Church (USA) moderator to serve for two years. Previous moderators served one-year terms.
Ufford-Chase founded BorderLinks, a bi-national organization that tries to connect and educate people of faith on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border. He has served BorderLinks for 17 years prior to being elected as the Presbyterian Church's moderator.
Ufford-Chase has a bachelor's degree from Colorado College and entered Princeton Theological Seminary, but says he soon discovered that his call was not to be an ordained minister, but to serve in ministry as an elder.
Ufford-Chase also worked with the Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies in Central America in Guatemala, and has been a co-moderator of Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. With his wife, Kitty, he has been trained to serve as a reservist with Christian Peacemaker Teams, an organization that has sent teams of “accompaniers” to Colombia, Iraq, Palestine and the U.S./Mexico border region.
In June 2006, after the end of his term as PC (USA) moderator, Ufford-Chase accepted a call as the Executive Director of Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.
[edit] External references and links
- Boston Globe Article on Rick Ufford-Chase
- Bio on PCUSA Website
- U-C: What I See Rick's blog
- Presbyterian Peace Fellowship Website
