By Nancy TalbotThe 2019 January 25-26 Synod Mission & Ministries Commission meeting began the next two-year term for presbytery representatives. As we said farewell to some representatives at the November 2018 meeting, we welcomed at this meeting people elected for the first time to represent their presbyteries. You can see that the new members bring a...
By Nancy TalbotWith the term cycle shift approaching with the new year, at its November 2018 meeting, the Mission & Ministries Commission (M&MC) thanked the Commission members and Synod officers who are rotating off its roles and bid them farewell. We are so grateful for their gifts, their service, and their ministry! We will miss each of...
by Harold DelhagenOur Synod community is deeply blessed with incredible diversity. With this gift comes a profound responsibility to be sure that the gift of these voices is heard and reflected within the leadership of our governance structures. The Robert L. Washington Scholars Program is intended to lift up, support, and equip a diversity of leaders to...
In the midst of an autumn coldsnap, around twenty church leaders who are between the ages of 25-40 gathered in upstate New York at the Silver Bay YMCA Camp & Conference Center for the 2017 Emerging Leaders Gathering. Though the weather was chilly, the community was not!The Synod of the Northeast is blessed with a strong...
The Synod Leadership and Mission teams developed the attached statement concerning the remedial case GAPJC 2014-05 James MacKellar v. Synod of the Northeast. Below please find the statement in English, Spanish and Korean. Pastoral letter GAPJC- English Pastoral Letter GAPJC- Spanish Pastoral Letter GAPJC- Korean Click here for the link to the GAPJC decision in the...