Morning worship on Wednesday at the 226th General Assembly focused on how greed affects our capacity to embody hope. Associate dean for the Graduate School of Theology, University of the Redlands, the Rev. Ruth T. West, took her inspiration from the assembly theme’s “Live into Hope” and the similarly titled hymn’s (Glory to God, #772) verse: “Live into hope of captors freed of sight regained, the end of greed.”
If anything can succeed in generating a solid crowd at 6:45 a.m. during the already rigorous demands of a General Assembly, it’s the promise that God is doing a new thing.
Pausing during a break for a technology fix during the final plenary Tuesday, commissioners and advisory delegates to the 226th General Assembly pulled out the stops and, led by Co-Moderator the Rev. CeCe Armstrong, performed the Electric Slide while they waited. The event was, well, electric, and entertaining.
In a surprise reversal, the 226th General Assembly made an about-face on Tuesday afternoon by deciding against complete divestment from the fossil fuel industry after having voted in favor of it that morning.
Perhaps owing to its location in the Beehive State, the 226th General Assembly has been a beehive of activity for the PC(USA)’s recently elected and installed Stated Clerk, the Rev. Jihyun Oh.
Fifty people attended the 1001 New Worshiping Communities (1001 NWC) lunch at the Marriott’s Skylight Ballroom on Tuesday afternoon to gather and encourage church and mid council leaders to support new worshiping communities and their partnerships with existing churches and mid councils.
환경 및 기후 정의 위원회의 권고안에 대한 총회의 격렬한 토론이 진행되는 도중에 공동총회장인 씨시 암스트롱 목사는 자메이카를 거쳐 카리브해로 이동 중인 허리케인 베릴이 카테고리 5 폭풍으로 분류되었다는 소식을 듣고 잠시 기도로 총회를 소집했다가 잠시 멈췄습니다.
A mitad del extenuante debate de la Asamblea General sobre una recomendación del Comité de Justicia Medioambiental y Climática, la Co-moderadora, la Rev. CeCe Armstrong, hizo una pausa para convocar al cuerpo en oración, pues acababa de recibir la noticia de que el huracán Beryl, que en ese momento atravesaba Jamaica y se desplazaba por el Caribe, acababa de ser clasificado como tormenta de categoría 5.
The history of denominational mission schools is lengthy and has legs in each U.S. state and in countries across the world — so perhaps it comes as no surprise that before there were Presbyterian churches in Utah, there were Presbyterian classrooms.
For the first time since 2018, commissioners and advisory delegates of the 226th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are together for in-person plenaries. To make that happen requires a lot of planning, preparation and prayer.