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GA 2008
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, PNS
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Monday, 30 June 2008 23:23 |
SAN JOSE — The 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has urged the denomination’s Board of Pensions [www.pensions.org] to expand its medical coverage for children with congenital developmental disabilities to include occupational, speech, and physical authority.
The expanded benefits would apply to children with such maladies as Down’s syndrome and autism. |
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, PNS
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Monday, 30 June 2008 23:20 |
SAN JOSE — In a dangerous world, interfaith dialogue is even more important because “a fire next door will consume your own house,” a leading U.S. Muslim told the 218th General Assembly’s Ecumenical Breakfast June 26.
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, PNS
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Monday, 30 June 2008 22:18 |
SAN JOSE — Youth groups in New Jersey, Indiana, and southern California have been chosen winners of the inaugural Youth Video Challenge sponsored by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation on its social networking site, ymiLIVE.org [www.ymilive.org].
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Written by Mike Ferguson, PNS
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Monday, 30 June 2008 22:16 |
SAN JOSE — The 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approved with amendments a resolution “On Calling for Tolerance and Peaceful Relations Between the Christian and Muslim Communities.” The vote was 547-149.
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Written by Emily Enders Odom
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Monday, 30 June 2008 22:12 |
SAN JOSE — In two separate but related initiatives designed to address the persistent decline in Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) membership as well as the church’s commitment to grow in diversity, the 218th General Assembly wholeheartedly approved June 25 a Strategy for Church Growth for African American Congregations and a resolution to help Christ’s Church Grow Deep and Wide during the report of the Assembly Committee on Church Growth and Christian Education.
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Written by Toya Richards Hill
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Monday, 30 June 2008 22:07 |
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SAN JOSE — Equipping seminary students “to go out to equip others” is critical, the Rev. Sara Covin Juengst told a group of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminary leaders and others gathered for the Committee on Theological Education [www.pcusa.org/seminaries/cote.htm] (COTE) Breakfast on June 26. |
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Written by Duane Sweep, PNS
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Monday, 30 June 2008 20:55 |
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SAN JOSE — Reclaiming the power of the gospel will greatly help with one of the most difficult challenges Presbyterians face— evangelism, according to the Rev. Eric Hoey, director of evangelism and church growth [www.pcusa.org/goodnews], who spoke at the evangelism breakfast June 26 at the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). |
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Written by Vicki Fogel Mykles, PNS
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Monday, 30 June 2008 20:48 |
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Commissioners and guests arriving at the PC(USA)‚s 218th General Assembly in San Jose, Calif., encountered John Calvin —— lots and lots of John Calvins. |
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Written by Jerry L. Van Marter, PNS
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Monday, 30 June 2008 20:41 |
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SAN JOSE — When the 218th General Assembly voted to send out a proposed amendment to presbyteries to delete the “fidelity and chastity” ordination standard and replace it with a new version, a handful of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)‚s executive presbyters felt a need to gather for prayer. |
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Written by The Presbyterian Outlook
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Monday, 30 June 2008 20:11 |
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June 28, 2008 To Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations Grace and peace to you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The 218th General Assembly adjourned just a few short hours ago. Even now, 973 commissioners and advisory delegates are making their way back home from San Jose, CA, where they worshiped daily, discussed and debated overtures, and celebrated the countless ways Presbyterians are engaged in ministry near and very far away—all with a focus on discerning the mind of Christ for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and seeking ways to live out this assembly’s theme: “Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with our God” (Micah 6:8). |
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Written by Shane Whisler, PNS
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 22:26 |
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SAN JOSE — Commissioners to the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) “stayed the course” of being peacemakers around the world. |
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Written by Jack Haberer, Presbyterian Outlook editor
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 20:40 |
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Shaking and Moving The 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA) In San Jose, California, close to the San Andreas fault, the 218th General Assembly, though resting on the solid rock of Jesus Christ, felt tremors of change and shifts in the denominational ground. |
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Written by Erin S. Cox-Holmes, PNS
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 15:36 |
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SAN JOSE -- “There is hardly any family or congregation that is not touched by serious mental illness,” says the Rev. B. Gordon Edwards, who was instrumental in bringing “Comfort My People: A Policy Statement on Serious Mental Illness” to the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for adoption on June 27. |
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Written by Mike Ferguson, PNS
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 13:56 |
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SAN JOSE -- By a 5-to-1 margin, the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Friday (June 27) approved “A Social Creed for the 21st Century,” exactly 100 years after the “Social Creed” of 1908 spoke to the harshness of industrial life at the turn of the last century. |
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Written by Janet Tuck, PNS
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 13:33 |
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SAN JOSE -- After much docket delay, the Church Polity Committee gave its report to the 218thGeneral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) late Friday afternoon (June 27). |
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Written by Erin Dunigan, Outlook GA correspondent
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 13:25 |
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SAN JOSE – An amendment to a resolution on homelessness adopted by the 218th General Assembly on Friday asks PC(USA) members to forgo one meal per week “as an act of worship and humility.” The amendment requests that the value of the skipped meal be pledged to feeding those in need in a manner of the donor’s choice. |
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, Outlook National Reporter
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Friday, 27 June 2008 23:40 |
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SAN JOSE – Just hours after voting to recommend that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) change its rules to make it easier for gays and lesbians to be ordained, the 218th General Assembly turned down a overture that would have changed the definition of marriage in the church’s constitution, to say that marriage is between “two people” rather than a between a man and a woman. |
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Written by Erin Dunigan, Outlook GA Correspondent
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Friday, 27 June 2008 23:35 |
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SAN JOSE – An amendment to a resolution on homelessness adopted by the 218th General Assembly on Friday asks PC(USA) members to forgo one meal per week “as an act of worship and humility.” |
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Written by Erin Dunigan, Outlook GA Correspondent
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Friday, 27 June 2008 23:30 |
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SAN JOSE, Cal. – “We are called to be involved and engaged in the world that God cares deeply about,” said Rev. Nancy Kahaian, moderator of the Committee on Peacemaking and International Issues. “I believe that Presbyterians can truly lead the way,” she continued in a press conference Friday afternoon. |
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Written by Jack Haberer, Outlook Editor
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Friday, 27 June 2008 23:25 |
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SAN JOSE -- Gradye Parsons has been elected Stated Clerk on the first ballot at the 218th General Assembly meeting here today (June 27). |
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Written by Erin Dunigan, Presbyterian Outlook GA correspondent
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Friday, 27 June 2008 23:23 |
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SAN JOSE – “It is no accident that the Committee on Peacemaking and International Issues takes so much time,” said Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick. |
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Written by Duane Sweep
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Friday, 27 June 2008 23:20 |
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SAN JOSE -- The 218th General Assembly on Thursday (June 26) rejected by a five-to-one margin a recommendation from its Mission Coordination and Budgets Committee that the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) institute a fifth church-wide special offering to support mission personnel. |
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Written by Mike Ferguson, PNS
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Friday, 27 June 2008 23:12 |
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SAN JOSE --Not everybody gets what they want at General Assembly. But the 17 youth and their six chaperones from Atlanta’s Central Church got a measure of satisfaction knowing that they may have smoothed the way for future youth groups to attend — and help out — at future Assemblies. |
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Written by Erin Dunigan, OUTLOOK GA correspondent
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Friday, 27 June 2008 23:09 |
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The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) today (June 27) approved a resolution in support of the Presbyterian Church in Zimbabwe. |
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Written by Leslie Scanlon, OUTLOOK national reporter
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Friday, 27 June 2008 22:30 |
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SAN JOSE – In a vote reflecting how divided the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continues to be, the 218th General Assembly recommended by a narrow margin that the denomination change its constitution to remove the impediments that have been disallowing the ordination of sexually-active gays and lesbians. |
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