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PC(USA) General Assembly Committee 5 Preview

Posted May 6th, 2016

The future of the 16 synods in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will once again be on the docket when the 222nd General Assembly (2016) meets June 18–25 in Portland, Oregon.

PC(USA) General Assembly Committee 6 Preview

Posted May 6th, 2016

Overtures on requiring evangelism training for teaching elders, inserting caring for God’s creation as part of each congregation’s ministry—and a dozen other proposals—await the Committee on Church Polity and Ordered Ministry during the 222nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Presbyterian Mission Agency Board discusses Review Committee’s recommendations

Posted April 29th, 2016

The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board (PMAB) heard a presentation on April 27 on the comments proposed by its Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) Review Committee Response Writing Team Task Force.

A Providential Coincidence

Posted April 20th, 2016

Belhar and C67: calls to reconciliation ‘for such a time as this’ By Clifton Kirkpatrick | Professor of World Christianity and Ecumenical Studies and the William A. Benfield Jr. Professor… Read more »

PC(USA) Women of Faith Awards presented at PMA Board meeting

Posted February 15th, 2016

Three remarkable women honored for building bridges of reconciliation The Racial Ethnic & Women’s Ministry of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has named the recipients of the 2016 Women of Faith Awards… Read more »

PC(USA) Moderator takes ‘Call to the Church’ on the road

Posted January 20th, 2016

Rada to hold conversations at five locations around the country Heath Rada, Moderator of the 221st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), is extending his “Call to the Church” to… Read more »