The Reverend Luke Choi has accepted a call to become the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s manager for Korean-Speaking Councils Support, a new position mandated by the 222nd General Assembly (2016).

“I’m truly honored and excited to join the team PC(USA) in Louisville,” said Choi, who currently lives near Cleveland, Ohio. “Having served in diverse parish settings for the last eighteen years, I’m ready for this new adventure as the very first manager of Korean-speaking Councils Support.”

Presbyterians from around the country are invited to live out their faith at Big Tent 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri. This biennial gathering will take place July 6–8, on the campus of Washington University. The theme—Race, Reconciliation and Reformation—will emphasize the hope of the gospel and its power to transform society in our current cultural context marked by anxiety, racial division, political animosity and economic inequality.

Big Tent offers Presbyterians an exciting opportunity to discern some of the toughest concerns of the day, while actively engaging with their faith community.

As leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and in accord with the instruction approved by our 222nd General Assembly in June 2016, we write to urge you to use your good offices to ensure an effective, prompt, and humane response to the debt and economic crisis in Puerto Rico. This is especially important to us in that we have had Presbyterian congregations in Puerto Rico for more than 100 years.

Presbyterians are invited to send mission teams to the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy as part of an initiative called “Hands & Feet” leading up to the 223rd General Assembly (2018). The assembly is scheduled to meet June 16–23, 2018, in St. Louis.

I pursued field education at the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) because I was seeking to understand and get close to what I would have called at the time, “the heart of the PC(USA).” As a cliché, first-year seminary student, I anticipated marching in those double doors each day to a new, eternally important task and single-handedly helping the denomination experience some sort of transformation.