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Thursday’s Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board meeting includes a sunny financial report

Posted August 24th, 2023

Meeting via Zoom on Thursday, the Presbyterian Church, A Corporation Board of Directors made short work of its agenda, taking a few actions and providing a handful of updates before voting to enter into closed session to discuss personnel, property, litigation and security matters.

The PC(USA)’s Unification Commission sets July 1, 2025, as the date for unifying the Presbyterian Mission Agency and the Office of the General Assembly

Posted August 20th, 2023

Dividing its time almost evenly between closed and open sessions on Sunday, the Unification Commission — which is working to unify the Office of the General Assembly and the Presbyterian Mission Agency — voted to approve a timeline to complete its work by the 227th General Assembly in 2026.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board members update one another on the goings-on around the Church

Posted May 19th, 2023

As is their custom, members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board of Directors launched day two of their meeting Friday by reporting to one another the progress of the various PC(USA) boards and commissions on which they sit.

Rolling out the red carpet at the Presbyterian Center

Posted May 18th, 2023

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board attended a film premiere of sorts Thursday afternoon.

The Unification Commission’s four work groups outline their initial steps

Posted April 16th, 2023

Continuing its pattern of monthly meetings, the Unification Commission gathered via Zoom Sunday afternoon to hear reports from the four work groups the commission formed during its most recent meeting, March 9-11 in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Rev. Dr. John Wilkinson is called to lead Ministry Engagement and Support

Posted March 24th, 2023

In what he describes as “a welcome convergence of my vocational journey as well as my personal and family journey,” the Rev. Dr. John Wilkinson will begin work as the director of the Ministry Engagement and Support team on May 8.

Tasked with a gargantuan mandate, the PC(USA)’s Unification Commission chooses teamwork

Posted March 10th, 2023

It took commissioners all day Friday, but by the end of the second day of Unification Commission meetings, the 12-member group had spread the considerable work it must complete over four teams: Governance, Financials, Common Mission and Consultations. Two or three commissioners volunteered themselves for each of the four teams.

The PC(USA)’s Unification Commission hears from the two people who will be most responsible for PMA and OGA unity

Posted March 9th, 2023

On Thursday during the first day of what will be a three-day session in the conference center at the Presbyterian Center, the Unification Commission heard from the two people who will be most responsible for what a unified Office of the General Assembly and Presbyterian Mission Agency will be: the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II, and the Rev. Dr. Diane Givens Moffett.

The PC(USA)’s Administrative Services Group checked off most of its to-do list for 2022

Posted February 16th, 2023

In baseball terms, the Administrative Services Group batted an eye-popping .677 last year.

Unification Commission gets to the work of determining how and when the Presbyterian Mission Agency and Office of General Assembly will be one

Posted December 17th, 2022

The 12-member Commission to Unify the Office of the General Assembly and the Presbyterian Mission Agency held its first meeting via Zoom on Saturday. Members — six of them pastors and the others ruling elders — discussed the scope of the task before them and some of the deadlines that will mark what could be a four-year journey together.