The application for the 2021-2022 Wurffel-Sills Scholarship & Interest-Free Student Loan Program is available now. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2021. Applicants must be a member of any Presbyterian Church within the Synod of the Northeast. The application is open to full-time undergraduate students and seminary studies leading to a Master of Divinity (MDIV)...
River of Resilience aims to provide tools, space to process, and practices to develop healing resilience for African-American 25 years or older living with the traumas of racism.
Dear Synod Community A number of you have contacted the Synod regarding a suspicious email that you received from “Nancy Talbot”. That email coming from NTalbot.synodne@gmail.com is not from your Stated Clerk, it is a fake email phishing scam. We have taken the appropriate precautions on our end and urge you not to respond to the email,...
Commissioner ResolutionsThere were three Commissioner Resolutions and all three were voted in the affirmative and now become the work of the Synod. Summaries and links to the full text of the resolutions are below. Resolution to the Synod of the Northeast on Anti-Racism Work. Rev. Eric Thomas (TE Commissioner, New York City), one of the authors,...
The Assembly took up the 2021/2022 Budget and: Ratified the Synod Mission and Ministries Commission’s approval, acting as the Board of Trustees, of the per capita rate of $4.10 for 2021 and 2022. Approved the 2021/2022 budget with the expectation that Synod leadership need not wait until the end of the current budget cycle to begin...
I have compiled a review of the 2020 Synod Assembly for those of you who need to report to your presbyteries, for those who were not able to attend the synod assembly, and for everyone to have a document in which you can find the results of this two-day gathering. In addition, there are links to...
Dear Synod Community, Many of you already know and some of you may not have heard that Stony Point is the latest casualty of COVID-19. The Presbytery Mission Agency (PMA) which owns Stony Point announced that it was time to let go of Stony Point as we have known it. Rick and Kitty Ufford-Chase, co-directors for twelve years, helped turn the financially...
Dear Members and Friends of the Synod of the Northeast, The Synod of the Northeast is seeking a Transitional Synod Leader. After consulting with key stakeholders throughout the Synod and drawing from our own backgrounds, the Synod Search Team, in consultation with the Synod Commission developed the attached job description. We are seeking a candidate who...
DEAR FRIENDS WHO SHARE THE JOURNEY, People are hurting all over our nation. This past week the pain erupted into “righteous indignation.” To have seen the life squeezed out of George Floyd by a White policeman was too much — a video we see played over and over – the last straw so shortly after Ahmaud...