In less than two weeks, Presbyterians will be gathering in Salt Lake City for the 226th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). One of the first things commissioners and advisory delegates will be able to do is join several area churches for worship on Sunday, June 30. The churches that make up the Presbytery of Utah are committed to ministry — with a special focus on addressing homelessness and poverty. In the third part of our series on Utah’s Presbyterian ministry, several churches share how they are not only reaching people, but addressing their needs.
Earlier this month, members and staff of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy held an informative webinar on General Assembly items of business in which ACSWP is involved. Watch the 52-minute webinar here.
When the 226th General Assembly opens next week, members of the Race, Sexuality and Gender Justice Committee will consider two resolutions and receive one report during their time together online beginning Tuesday, June 25.
RSG-04 is a joint resolution from two committees, the Advocacy Committee for Women and Gender Justice and the LGBTQIA+ Equity Advocacy Committee, to recognize March 31st as Transgender Day of Visibility in all future printings and distributions of the Presbyterian Planning Calendar.
Where can you hear from a true peacemaker in the Middle East, enjoy cutting-edge music, honor a beloved hymn writer and eat your cereal? You can do all that and more on Saturday via Zoom at the Peace Breakfast of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship. Held for every Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly for many decades, the Peace Breakfast will start at 8 a.m. Pacific Time, 9 a.m. Mountain Time, 10 a.m. Central Time and 11 a.m. Eastern Time. It’s strictly BYOB — Bring Your Own Breakfast.
Beginning in 2016, the Presbytery of Philadelphia began shepherding the congregations of three struggling churches — First African Presbyterian, Good Shepherd Presbyterian, and Calvin Presbyterian — in a process that eventually led to the formation of a new, vibrant church: New River Presbyterian Church.
“Good God, y’all!” is not just a figure of speech, a lyric from a pacifist anthem or a cry of disbelief; it was also the theme of a conference held at Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center last week.
Thirteen items of business and two reports await members of the Polity Committee when they meet online June 25-27 as part of the 226th General Assembly.
The item that’s garnered considerable advance interest is POL-01, which would amend the Book of Order to include sexual orientation and gender identity among the categories against which the church does not discriminate.
This month’s webinar put on by the co-moderators of the Funding Model Development Team laid out the work completed so far on the team’s General Assembly mandate to “develop and implement experiments that will fund councils of the church, above the session, that will be consistent with the identified values and adaptive challenges of the mid councils.”
History is important to Dianne White. And so is her Presbyterian family.
Five of the 16 overtures up for consideration by the Christian Formation Committee of the 226th General Assembly ask for the assembly to confirm the election of new presidents at PC(USA) seminaries. The seminaries that have completed searches for new presidents since the last General Assembly in 2022 are Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (CF-06), Columbia Theological Seminary (CF-07), Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (CF-08), Princeton Theological Seminary (CF-09) and Union Presbyterian Seminary (CF-10).