General Assembly Archives

PC(USA) General Assembly Committee 13 Preview

Posted May 13th, 2016

Administrative committee to consider confirmation of presidents, directors, board

PC(USA) General Assembly Committee 8 Preview

Posted May 12th, 2016

Middle East Issues Committee will consider divestment, two-state solution and child-detention

PC(USA) General Assembly Committee 9 Preview

Posted May 9th, 2016

Immigration and Environmental Issues Committee will mull fossil fuel divestment Competing overtures—one seeking Presbyterian divestment from fossil fuel companies, the other placing that action on hold—will headline the work of the Immigration and Environmental Issues Committee during the 222nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

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.)

Vasquez, Park and Correa embrace translation as ministry at PC(USA)

Posted May 2nd, 2016

Veteran Spanish and Korean language translators, Elizabeth Vasquez and the Rev. Sunkyoo Park, understand their daily tasks—and their larger role within the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA)—not just as a job, but as a calling.

PC(USA) communications groups garner 17 Associated Church Press awards

Posted April 25th, 2016

Communications groups within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) were honored for their contributions to religious communications in 2015 with 17 “Best of the Christian Press” awards spanning a variety of topics and media. The awards were presented at the 100th anniversary gathering of the Associated Church Press, meting in St. Louis – the city in which it was founded – April 20-22.

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 »