William P. Thompson, a United States church leader and layperson instrumental in bringing the world's Congregationalists and Presbyterians together in the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and its first president, died at age 87.
Rev. Stephen Kendall, the PCC's principal clerk and moderator of WARC's finance and fundraising committee, said,”We are grateful to servants such as William Thompson for their vision and dedication in bringing WARC to be.”
Thompson, a lawyer described by the Presbyterian News Service as a brilliant legal and organizational thinker, led the Presbyterian Church through the civil-rights struggles of the 1960s, and the anti-Vietnam War movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. – ENI and AM
