Responding to a recommendation from the Advocacy Committee for Racial Ethnic Concerns, the 213th General Assembly (2001) created a Task Force to Study Issues of Reparations for African Americans, Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, Asian Americans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Others Who Have Experienced Unjust Treatment. The task force met over the next three years, seeking input from a variety of Presbyterians. Consistent with its commitment to racial justice, the 216th General Assembly (2004) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) adopted the report of the Task Force to Study Reparations, "affirming that Jesus Christ calls us to repair wrongs done to one …
The World Mission's South America Office, the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, and the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship are three resources available to the members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) who want to join with our sisters and brothers in Colombia as they work to end the patterns of internal violence that are tearing this country apart. Finally, as stated in the introduction of this report, the World Mission's ministry areas and the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, in consultation with the Office of the General Assembly and other entities of the General Assembly Council, are available to help the members of the Presbyterian Church …
This report comes in response to an overture from the Presbytery of Peace River to the 218th General Assembly (2008) of the PC(USA) that would have asked the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) to investigate the role of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) in persuading PC(USA) congregations to disaffiliate from the PC(USA) and be dismissed to the EPC. The assembly referred the overture to the General Assembly Committee on Ecumenical Relations, which appointed a task group to make recommendations.
The task group met with presbyteries in which congregations had departed the PC(USA), with pastors and members of congregations who had departed or were considering …
I want you to know that I was able to represent you all at the funeral service on Wednesday, December 13,
for Associate Pastor John Patterson at Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
Several thousand people attended this service of remembrance and celebration of John's life, ministry and
resurrection victory in Jesus Christ. Please continue to remember Cherry Hills and John's family (Mary Ellen
and Elizabeth, Laura, John and Will) in your prayers. John and I first met twenty years ago. H e is one of the
most …
I still look forward to an opportunity for us to mcet face to face, but even prior to that time I need to seek clarification from you about several issues related to EPC's proposed "transitional
presbytery" and how that might relate to our churches seeking to be dismissed to the EPC through that presbytery. I obviously wish we were not dealing with these issues of division, but
since we are, I hope we can do it in ways that do not damage the relationships between the PCUSA and the …
Comparison of PC(USA), NWAC, and Two Other USA Presbyterian Denominations
This resolution on Human Rights focuses on the United States, as our nation has gone from being a leader in the cause of human rights to a cause for alarm among democratic nations. None of the observations in this report are pleasant to make, nor are they meant to delineate the full scope of human rights' concerns in the world. Ongoing, entrenched human suffering and pervasive abuse of power continue to plague the peoples of the world. This resolution follows the biblical model provided by the prophet Amos, who surveyed the countries around Judah with judgments attributed to God, before …
As the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seeks to increase its diversity and expand its ministries to racial, ethnic, and cultural minorities, we find that increasing numbers of immigrant workers are present in our midst. Our friendship with these neighbors can become a window to a deeper realization of the cruelties and vulnerabilities many immigrants experience in the U.S. The church is called to witness to the reconciliation that Christ brings to the world. It is no cheap covering over?of divisions and differences. Instead, reconciliation points?to a dynamic unity of richly diverse humankind in which justice is established and each one is …
Establishing a strong foundation on biblical, theological, and historic principals, this study explores the present context in which our justice system functions. It puts forward the position that the rehabilitation of prisoners and profiting off of their incarceration are fundamentally opposed points of view. The treatment of prisoners cannot run the risk of corruption by considerations of what will make the most profit for share-holders, yet in a for-profit prison system this is the primary motivation.
Report on the resolution on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome from the 198th General Assembly.