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~November 9, 2020

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...

~October 14, 2020

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...

~June 1, 2020

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...

~June 19, 2019

By Carl WiltonDuring the years when I was growing up, we had a number of cars in our family. Big cars, little cars, new cars, old cars — they came and went, according to the fortunes of my dad’s business and my mother’s teaching salary. We were a suburban family in the Sixties, which meant there...

~May 13, 2019

By Lori HyltonThe Synod’s Servant Leadership Institute (SLI) was officially launched and announced to the Synod community last month. To our delight, people were immediately excited and interested to learn more about the program.You’ve had several questions: who is the program targeting; what is servant leadership; what are the goals of the program; how does one...

~May 9, 2019

By Amaury Tañón-SantosThe third installment of Come to the Table is scheduled for November 8-9, 2019 at the Stony Point Center in Stony Point, NY. The planning team is hard at work designing the experience focused on worship, joint learning – with a mission fair, and two 1½-hour-long workshop sessions on three tracks – and fellowship....

~May 7, 2019

by Anita WrightWhen we entered the opening gathering for the May Mission & Ministries Commission meeting, we were told to bring our chairs into the inner part of the room. There we sat in a semi-circle. It created a discomfort around the room because it was not what we were used to doing. Everyone waited for...

~February 11, 2019

Synod scholarships of $100 are available for each youth participant and chaperone attending the 2019 Presbyterian Youth Triennium. If you or someone you know would like a Synod scholarship, contact your presbytery and let them know that you wish to attend Triennium. Presbyteries must present their list identifying youth participants and chaperones to the Synod Stated...

~February 7, 2019

While the New Jersey Missional Structures (NJMS) working group is convened and facilitated by the Synod of the Northeast, the group’s members were appointed through the moderators of each of the seven NJ presbyteries. This is an incredible group of talented, creative, and visionary people, and we are so grateful for their work to imagine a...

~February 7, 2019

At the January 2019 Mission & Ministries Commission meeting, the Mission Working Group (MWG) reviewed several grant applications. At the working group’s recommendation, the Commission approved one Ecumenical Support grant and four Innovation & Emerging Gospel Community Grants. Our partners are doing some incredible work!

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