The Young Adult Advisory Delegates orientation began Saturday morning led by the Rev. Katrina Pekich-Bundy and Ekama Eni.
Fred Tangeman, who’s hosting GA Daily, a talk show broadcast from the studio of the Salt Lake Convention Center each day of the General Assembly, went straight to the top to locate his first guest on Saturday’s inaugural episode: The Rev. Bronwen Boswell, Acting Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Across the nation from the gathering of the PC(USA)’s 226th General Assembly, the Poor People’s Campaign held an assembly of its own Saturday in Washington, D.C., and it featured spirited comments from two Presbyterian pastors.
While online General Assembly committee work may have gotten off to a slow start on Tuesday, “we got into a rhythm,” noted the Rev. Bronwen Boswell, Acting Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). “Once people got used to it, we heard little more about any technical issues. It was getting into the rhythm of being a committee, and it went well.”
On Jan. 30, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed House Bill 257 into law. HB 257, dubbed “Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-Bullying, and Women’s Opportunities,” bars transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming people from accessing privacy spaces and other facilities in public schools and government owned or controlled spaces, according to ACLU Utah.
Months before the 226th General Assembly got underway this week, Global Language Resources (GLR) was working to ensure that key participants whose primary languages are Spanish and Korean would be able to fully participate.
The General Assembly Procedures Committee worked hard into the night Thursday to complete all its business, including approval of GAP-03, a revision of the Proposed Standing Rules of the General Assembly offered by the Special Committee on Standing Rules.
The long days — and the even longer nights — that await participants at the 226th General Assembly (2024) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in Salt Lake City will be enlivened by the Holy Spirit, always at work in the life of the Church and the world.
And a General Assembly is no exception.
One of the major outcomes of the 226th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be the election of a new stated clerk. In her final weeks as Acting Stated Clerk, the Rev. Bronwen Boswell is sharing some advice to her successor, including the need to be open to the Spirit and what God has in store for the church of tomorrow.
This year, the PC(USA) General Assembly gathering is making its way west — the destination? Salt Lake City. This isn’t the first time the denominational meeting has crowded the streets of Salt Lake, though.