Atlanta Daily World

Presbyterian Women Meet At Purdue Univ.

WEST LAFAYETTE. Ind. - More than 5,000 delegates representing women's organizations of local Presbyterian churches throughout the United States will attend the fifth quadrennial national meeting of the Presbyterian Women's Organization at Purdue University. West Lafayette, Ind., June 25 through July 1.

Representatives of women groups of the former United Presbyterian Church of North America. which last month merged with the Presbyterian Church of the USA, to form the United Presbyterian Church in the USA, will be guests at the national meeting. The two women's organizations will be combined and a new constitution adopted at the close of the week-long meeting

Other delegates and visitors include women from churches in Egypt, Czechoslocakia, Cuba, Brazil. Alaska. Chile. Mexico. Indonesia and Cameroon, West Africa. Nearly 200 missionaries and church members from national missions and overseas fields will attend the meeting.

Highlight of the conference will be the adoption of a "Charter For Christian Action" which was drawn up on the basis of recommendations coming out of a year of study by more than 3,000 local church study commissions. The Charter is designed to guide the efforts of women's groups in their work at home and abroad during the next four years.