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The PC(USA)’s Advocacy Committee for Women and Gender Justice has ideas for covering worship leadership for 12 weeks of family leave

Posted June 6th, 2023

Last year, commissioners to the 225th General Assembly approved a recommendation by the Family Leave Policy Task Force — later ratified by the presbyteries — to provide ministers a minimum of 12 weeks of paid family medical leave. The Advocacy Committee for Women and Gender Justice has published the resource below to help congregations — especially smaller congregations — with ideas for seeking out worship leadership during each of those 12 weeks.