The Commission approved the following meeting dates for 2023: Commission will meet January 27-28, April 28-29, and September 15-16. Come-to-the-Table is scheduled for October 20-21. The Commission approved the following Emerging Gospel Communities grants: 1. Connect.Faith — Hudson River Presbytery $10,000 2. Cross Street Community – New York City Presbytery $10,500 3. For People...
Workshop Description Mission at the Eastward’s (MATE) mission is to love our neighbors through volunteer home repairs, transitional housing, and youth outreach to create lives of hope, security, and dignity in Central Western Maine. Of the households we serve, 85% have income of less than $20,000 per year. Many households are dealing with devastating effects of...
Workshop Description The pandemic did not change the direction of society; it accelerated trends that were already well underway. Not only will we not go back to the way things were, more change is likely to come. Congregations can thrive by creating a culture of continual change that seeks to discern, anticipate, and adapt to their...
Workshop Description CJP will offer a primer on the idea of reparations, healing and repair to help participants visualize concrete actions that congregations and mid-councils can take to respond to structural racism. This work is both grounded in scripture and in the ethos of what it means to be Presbyterian. How is the work of healing...
Workshop Description In the spring of 2020, the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsford, NY, was simultaneously calling a new Pastor, launching the VCI program, and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite serious setbacks in the VCI program due to the pandemic, the church was able to maintain interest and enthusiasm in it. By modifying it to...
From the 12th chapter of the Gospel of Luke, part of this week’s lection: “Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; they will be divided: father against son and son against father,mother against daughter and daughter against mother,mother-in-law against her daughter-in-lawand daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” On Friday morning, August 12, as controversial author Salman Rushdie was preparing to take the stage in the Amphitheater at Chautauqua Institution in western New York State, he was stabbed by an assailant who was quickly apprehended and...
Synod Pre-Assembly Day of Learning Where: Crowne Plaza Albany – The Desmond Hotel660 Shaker Road, Albany NYWhen: Pre-Assembly Matthew 25 EventOctober 20. 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.Dinner at 6:15 p.m.What: Keynote with David Anderson Hooker Two Workshops on each of the Matthew 25 Foci – Details to followWrap Up with David Anderson Hooker This event is...
I am writing you today from beautiful Lake Tahoe. The mountains and the lake burst with signs of God’s goodness. I am here as faculty for the Art of Transitional Ministry. Pastors from across the country have gathered to learn how to lead the Church amid the COVID realities. Additionally, some are learning the basics for...
The Synod sent two overtures to General Assembly for consideration. The first was TWE-13 On Initiating the Process to Add a New Confession to the Book of Confessions https://www.pc-biz.org/#/search/3001007. The overture suggested considering “A Confession for Such a Time as This” written by young ministers across our synod for addition to the Book of Confessions. Our...
On July 7, 2022, the Wurffel-Sills Application Review Working Group met to finalize their review of all the 2022-2023 Wurffel-Sills scholarship and interest-free student loan applications received. We are happy to announce that we were able to provide scholarships and interest-free loan offers to members from 13 of our 19 presbyteries of the Synod of the...