“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,” the book of Proverbs tells us here, while it’s the beginning of wisdom here.
On Saturday the Unification Commission, which is working to unify the Office of the General Assembly and the Presbyterian Mission Agency, unanimously approved a 2025-26 Unified Budget Process that features the development of key unified priorities to help lead development, beginning in 2025, of a unified budget among the PMA, OGA and the Administrative Services Group.
Following an 8 p.m. dismissal on Thursday evening — which was the first day of what will be a three-day meeting of the Unification Commission at the Presbyterian Center — commissioners reconvened on Friday in closed session to continue their discussion around personnel and budget matters, on which no action was taken Friday morning.
“Defining what constitutes mission and how mission is funded and who has fiscal authority are fundamental questions that are beginning to arise for us,” said the Rev. Scott Lumsden, a member of the Finance Work Group within the Unification Commission, which seeks to combine the Office of the General Assembly and the Presbyterian Mission Agency.
After teaching about Wisdom literature found in the Book of Proverbs on Thursday, Dr. William Brown turned to the Book of Job that afternoon during an Adult Bible Study class at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference being held this week at Montreat Conference Center.
Anita Clemons was re-elected to the Members Council of Oikocredit at the Annual General Meeting for a three-year term. Clemons serves as Senior Vice President of Investment Management for the Presbyterian Foundation.
Worship during the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship & Music Conference being held this week at Montreat Conference Center continues with its pattern of seamless and beautiful liturgy and quality musicianship, the latter provided Thursday by Dr. Tony McNeill on piano and Eric Wall on organ.
Wisdom, as found in the biblical books of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes — and in other places too — is all about the human condition, Creation and nature, moral character, navigating life and experience.
The Committee on the Office of the General Assembly has announced that the Rev. Bronwen Boswell has been named Acting Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Boswell, who is currently general presbyter/stated clerk at Shenandoah Presbytery, will serve until the election of a new stated clerk at the 226th General Assembly in Salt Lake City, Utah, next summer. She will fill the unexpired term of the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, who recently announced his decision to step down at the end of June.
The immigration crisis, poverty, racial equity, human rights. These make up the foundation of the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II’s seven years as Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) During his time as the chief ecclesial officer of the denomination, Nelson traveled domestically and internationally to address some of the world’s most pressing human rights and social justice issues.
In the third of a four-part series, the Nelsons share their joint call to address these pressing issues.