On Saturday evening, the Rev. Dr. Marian McClure Taylor and the Rev. Daniel Morales greeted a steady stream of commissioners during a reception with the co-moderator and stated clerk candidates in the ballroom of the Marriot hotel. With wide smiles and friendly handshakes, McClure Taylor and Morales spent time getting to know the concerns of their fellow commissioners and sharing their own faith and commitments. These experiences comprise what McClure Taylor and Morales call their “Theology of Hope,” the theme for their campaign represented by the image of rivers in the desert, drawing on Isaiah 43:18-19.
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.”
이번 제 226회 총회가 열리기 몇 달 전부터 글로벌 언어 지원부(GLR)는 한국어와 스페인어가 모국어인 주요 참가자들이 온전히 총회에 참여할 수 있도록 준비했다.
Meses antes de que la 226ª Asamblea General se pusiera en marcha esta semana, Recursos en Idiomas Globales (GLR) estuvo trabajando para garantizar que las personas participantes cuyas lenguas principales son el español/castellano pudieran participar plenamente.
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.