While Presbyterian News Service was not present for the three days of Committee on the Office of the General Assembly meetings that concluded on Thursday, the news service did have the next best thing at its disposal: a question-and-answer session via email with Kate Trigger Duffert, Director of General Assembly Planning, one of the OGA staff and others present for COGA’s last in-person meeting ever at Zephyr Point Presbyterian Camp and Conference Center in Zephyr Cove, Nevada.
With Ephesians 2:10 as their scriptural basis, the co-moderators of the 226th General Assembly, the Rev. CeCe Armstrong and the Rev. Tony Larson, joined the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Rev. Jihyun Oh, to lead a recent hybrid worship service in the Chapel at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville. One by one, the three recently elected denominational leaders spoke on “Created,” “Called” and “Commissioned.”
At the very beginning of Sunday’s worship service celebrating the 200th anniversary of First Presbyterian Church in Columbus, Indiana, the church’s pastor, the Rev. Dr. Felipe Martínez, stood up, smiled broadly, and said, “Good morning, church. Hey, church — happy birthday!”
Near the end of her joyous and Spirit-filled ordination service on Saturday, the now-Rev. Jerusha Van Camp stood in front of the many friends and family gathered at First Presbyterian Church in Evansville, Indiana, and told them, “Your presence surrounds me with love.”
As the new host of “Leading Theologically,” the Rev. Bill Davis invited the Co-Moderators of the 226th General Assembly to pull their chairs close to the microphone for what would be a 34-minute wide-ranging conversation.
With dozens of family, friends, faculty, staff, students and PC(USA) representatives on hand in Caldwell Chapel to wish him their best, the Rev. Dr. Andrew Pomerville was inaugurated and installed Friday as the 11th president and professor of Practical Theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
The Rev. Tony Larson, co-moderator of the 226th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), is the latest addition to the roster of special guests who’ll be taking part in the denomination’s annual Young Adult Advocacy Conference this fall.
For nearly seven years, the Rev. CeCe Armstrong has offered up a weekly online event she’ll not be letting go of, even after her election as co-moderator of the 226th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
The Rev. Tony Larson, who serves Trinity Presbyterian Church of Southside Beach, South Carolina, and is co-moderator of the 226th General Assembly, opened last month’s webinar hosted by Presbyterians for Earth Care on how the Inflation Reduction Act can benefit churches and other nonprofits with a prayer.
With Ephesians 2:10 as their scriptural basis, the co-moderators of the 226th General Assembly, the Rev. CeCe Armstrong and the Rev. Tony Larson, joined the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Rev. Jihyun Oh, to lead a hybrid worship service Wednesday in the Chapel at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville, Kentucky. One by one, the three recently elected denominational leaders spoke on “Created,” “Called” and “Commissioned.”
