Dr. Melva Costen and Dr. Cynthia Rigby will receive Excellence in Theological Education awards this summer at the 226th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Meeting Saturday via Zoom, the Unification Commission voted to approve the formation a small task force to work with staff to review its charter “and all polity, process and procedural issues” related to the commission’s upcoming report to the 226th General Assembly next year and make recommendations to the Unification Commission at its next meeting, set for Jan. 18-20, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky.
Notwithstanding a few exceptions, Presbyterian News Service will be on hiatus beginning Monday, Dec. 18. We will resume publication on pcusa.org and presbyterianmission.org on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024.
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.
The Board of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation heard two main presentations on Wednesday: a vision for what future editions of the General Assembly could look like, and how the Presbyterian Center in downtown Louisville can be modified to accommodate that vision and much more — with an estimated $2.4 million price tag.
