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‘Two ideas trying to share space’

Posted October 26th, 2022

Conflict, the Rev. Dr. David Anderson Hooker likes to say, is just two ideas trying to share space.

‘Two ideas trying to share space’

Posted August 1st, 2022

Conflict, the Rev. Dr. David Anderson Hooker likes to say, is just two ideas trying to share space.

The machines are catching us

Posted October 29th, 2021

Global Language Resources is using Machine Translation to provide hospitality to Presbyterians who don’t have English as their first language.

Board approves plan for reimagining and rebuilding the Presbyterian Mission Agency

Posted October 7th, 2021

In its final action of 2021, the Presbyterian Mission Agency on Thursday passed what it called enabling motions that will result in some if not most of the ideas generated in a consultant’s report, “Reflecting, Reimagining and Making Space for Rebuilding,” being worked into the PMA’s Mission Work Plan that must be approved by the 225th General Assembly in 2022.

Good, honest medicine

Posted October 6th, 2021

The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board set the table Wednesday in order to decide Thursday whether to approve a consultant’s report that envisions new ways for the mission agency to do its ministry in the coming years.

Consultants recommend a decentralized, partner-seeking and harm-repairing Presbyterian Mission Agency

Posted September 16th, 2021

A consulting firm hired to help redesign the structure and purpose of the Presbyterian Mission Agency to more adeptly carry out the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Matthew 25 invitation and to better serve a changing Church and changing world has completed a report that recommends some sweeping changes for the agency over the next 30-42 months.

‘These are people doing real work together’

Posted August 6th, 2021

After 17 three-hour sessions which included homework assignments, the 36-member Leadership Innovation Team tasked with re-aligning the Presbyterian Mission Agency in the coming months to make it more able to carry out the ministry Jesus describes in his Matthew 25 parable has completed its work.

‘We exist to be about God’s mission, and that’s it’

Posted July 21st, 2021

The Leadership Innovation Team formed to envision the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s size and structure in a changing world racked by racial reckoning and the pandemic is well into its work after 17 three-hour sessions, the Rev. Dr. Diane Moffett, PMA’s president and executive director, told the PMA Board Wednesday.