Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is helping the church to understand healthy volunteerism through training that it also calls “decolonizing volunteerism.”
While pigs may not have been among the first of God’s creatures to welcome the Christ child, they still play an important role in this season of giving.
One of the highlights at the Moderators’ Conference each year is the opportunity for attendees to take time to talk with the moderator or co-moderators serving. The Rev. Shavon Starling-Louis and the Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace, co-moderators of the 225th General Assembly, took part in their second conference last week, once again taking questions from the audience and reflecting on the highlights of their term.
The two began reflecting on how they came together, both agreeing it was a partnership that was meant to be.
Friday afternoon at the Moderators' Conference, three leaders in the Office of the General Assembly (OGA) led a plenary session titled “More than Just Governance: What and Why Mid Council.”
The three interconnected presentations reminded moderators of the foundations of all council work as expressed in the Book of Order, offered strategies for making representative appointments to committees and commissions and shared ideas for emotionally intelligent and inclusive mid council leadership.
A quarter of the money raised during this year’s #GivingTuesday on November 28 will support the work of the Office of the General Assembly (OGA), including the huge effort to host next year's 226th General Assembly in Salt Lake City.
Ruling Elder Kate Trigger Duffert, Director of General Assembly Planning, pointed out some ways GT funds and denominational per capita will make the assembly more accessible to Presbyterians and other attendees from around the world.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has a new online landing page that will allow users to engage with the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict more easily using digital resources.
In a Sunday meeting that was a little hard for non-commissioners to follow because workgroup reports were kept private until the conclusion of the public portion of the Unification Commission’s online gathering, commissioners received a report on initial steps of unifying communications ministries of the Office of the General Assembly and Presbyterian Mission Agency.
The Moderators’ Conference, sponsored each year by Mid Council Ministries in the Office of the General Assembly, got underway Friday in the Presbyterian Center and online with the Rev. Shavon Starling-Louis, Co-Moderator of the 225th General Assembly, leading those who have said yes to God’s call for service in their presbytery or synod during an inspiring and thoughtful worship service.
By describing each slide as she displayed it, Dr. Rebecca F. Spurrier practiced what she preached Thursday while delivering the Caldwell Lecture to a roomful of people at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and online.
During the pandemic, the Rev. Bethany Peerbolte was making phone calls to members of the youth group she led as a way of checking in while remaining socially distant. The youth started using terms like “lukewarm Christian,” which struck Peerbolte as “not very Presbyterian,” so she started searching online for their source.