Office of the General Assembly Archives

‘I think we as a church have to learn how to love again’

Posted May 19th, 2022

The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and the Rev. Dr. Diane Moffett, president and executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, shared a forward-looking and candid conversation that was aired on the PC(USA) Facebook page on Thursday.

Telling God’s Good News through a variety of media

Posted May 13th, 2022

Communicators with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) used written, visual and aural tools of their trade to garner 10 awards Thursday during the Best of the Church Press ceremony held online.

Three boards come together to approve the 2023-24 unified budget

Posted May 2nd, 2022

Meeting via Zoom Monday, the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly joined with the boards for the Presbyterian Mission Agency and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation, to approve proposed unified budgets for 2023-24.

Finding their voice and maintaining their boundaries

Posted April 28th, 2022

The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board spent more than two hours in closed session Thursday undergoing boundaries training put on by the Minnesota-based LeaderWise consulting firm. Part two of the training for board members is slated for Friday afternoon, again in closed session.

Cutting to the chase

Posted March 31st, 2022

The Board of Directors of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation made short work of its agenda Thursday, completing the business conducted during the public segment of its meeting in just an hour, half the time the board had allotted.

Being good stewards of God’s grace

Posted March 31st, 2022

Presbyterians who agree to serve God and their congregations as ruling elders or deacons sometimes find they had little idea what they’ve gotten themselves into.

Stated Clerk joins other faith leaders to urge more work on Puerto Rico’s debt crisis

Posted March 16th, 2022

The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has joined other faith leaders to endorse a letter asking Congress and the Biden administration to continue the work of addressing debt crisis in Puerto Rico.

PC(USA) supporting immigration and refugee conference

Posted February 24th, 2022

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance are major supporters of a March 4-6 Church World Service conference about how people of faith can welcome immigrants and refugees.

The Daily News Briefing gets a wakeup call

Posted February 4th, 2022

The Daily News Briefing from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a list of stories published Monday through Friday by the Presbyterian News Service, the Office of the General Assembly and other news sources, will undergo a change beginning Tuesday.

Denominational website upgrade draws closer

Posted February 1st, 2022

The launch of the revamped, reorganized and unified denominational website, https://www.pcusa.org, is targeted for completion by the end of 2022 or the first quarter of 2023, a team tasked with finding a vendor to design the new site’s functions, searchability and organization said on Monday.