<한국의> Leaders of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) presbyteries and synods took a long hard look at white privilege in their denomination during a series of plenary sessions at the 2016 Polity Conference.

And most did not like what they saw.

<한국의> Pain and struggle are part of human life, the Reverend J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, told worshipers at a Sunday morning worship and communion service Oct. 30 that opened the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s annual Polity Conference. 

“The question is, how will you respond? And what will God do with it?”

<한국의> June 25, 2017, is a very important date, participants in the Moderator’s Conference were told in a workshop on “Presbytery Responsibilities in a Year Following GA.” 

The Moderators’ Conference was one of three mid-council leader events held concurrently in Louisville, Kentucky, just before the 2016 Polity Conference of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) October 30-31.

<한국의> Presbytery moderators and vice moderators from across the country spent much of the day Saturday, October 29, learning about the nuts and bolts of moderatorial responsibilities.

Worship planning, meeting management, and parliamentary procedure were among the topics of plenary sessions at the Moderators’ Conference, one of three events running concurrently just before the October 30–31 Polity Conference of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

<한국의> “Jesus came to make things right by making them new,” the Reverend Denise Anderson, Co-Moderator of the 222nd General Assembly (2016), told some 350 leaders of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) presbyteries and synods gathered in Louisville, Kentucky, for the annual Polity Conference and fall meetings.

“When it comes to our denomination, I don’t think Jesus wants to return us to our former glory,” said Anderson, who preached at a worship service that opened the gathering. “We are always being reformed—not just in the time of John Calvin, but in our time. We are being made into what God wants us to be.”

Front-line justice and advocacy work like that being done at First United Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, is at the heart of many Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations. Last week Stated Clerk J. Herbert Nelson, II, and Nora Leccese with the PC(USA) Office of Public Witness spent time on the ground in Charlotte, supporting and encouraging the ministry and mission of First United, a 150-year-old church founded by former slaves. 

The Reverend Denise Anderson, Co-Moderator of the 222nd General Assembly (2016) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), shares reflections on the DisGrace Conference held October 10-13 at Montreat Conference Center. The conference was described as “a faithful response to the embedded and structural racism in church and culture.”

«Escribe la visión; reclama el llamado» es el tema del servicio de adoración para la Reforma a nivel de toda la iglesia. Este servicio será liderado por el Rvdo Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II, el 2 de noviembre en el centro presbiteriano y será transmitido en vivo al público.

«Esta es una oportunidad durante esta época de reforma para llamar a una dentro de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.)» dijo Nelson, Secretario Permanente de la Asamblea General. «Espero que, como denominación, podamos acoger a una reforma espiritual que destruya las paredes que nos separan dentro de la iglesia nacional y de aquellas personas que nos dividen de las comunidades donde Dios nos ha puesto».

“교회 전체 종교개혁 예배가 비전 저술^{Write the Vision} – 부르심의 개심^{Reclaim the Call}”이라는 주제로서 공중에게 11월 2일 총회센터에서 허버트 넬슨 목사의 인도로 라이브 스트림 생중계 방송된다.    

“이는 종교개혁 계절에 미국장로교회 안에서 개혁을 부르짖는 기회가 될 것입니다,” 라고 총회 정 서기 넬슨은 말한다. “하나의 교단으로서 하나님이 우리를 배치하여 주신 공동체와 국가 교회 안에서 우리를 가로막고 있는 장벽을 깨어 부스는 영적 개혁을 감당하는 것이 저의 희망입니다.”  

“Write the Vision—Reclaim the Call” is the theme of a church-wide Reformation worship service being led by the Reverend Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, on November 2 at the Presbyterian Center and live-streamed to the public.

“This is an opportunity in this Reformation season to call for a reform within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A),” said Nelson, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly. “It is my hope that we, as a denomination, can embrace a spiritual reformation that breaks down the walls that separate us within the national church and those that divide us from the communities where God has placed us.”