ServantCare to provide individualized counseling sessions to teaching elders and their wives via the Internet.

The most constructive conversations on racism, systemic injustice, and implicit bias should be happening in the church, because we are called to be the model of gracious living.

Ten new overtures and one carried over from the 42nd General Assembly will be considered by the 43rd General Assembly.

“This overture helps foster better shepherding relationships between presbyteries and men without call,” David Dickson says. “It allows presbyteries to take into account the particular circumstances of a man without call and easily extend the ‘without call’ status year to year, by a simple majority vote of presbytery as the case may warrant.”

Earlier this year, New Hope Presbyterian Church of Fairfax, Virginia, submitted an overture to Potomac Presbytery to change BCO 35-1 such that accused ministers will be required to testify against themselves.

Teaching elder Bill Tyson said he proposed the change after a man in his church indicated that the current wording didn’t seem to fit with covenant theology.

The proposed revisions would delete the words “and recreations” and “the whole time.”

The proposed recommendation calls for portions of BCO 15-1 and 15- 3 to be modified to allow an individual presbytery to decide whether the ruling of a judicial commission should be brought to a vote in the larger group or whether it should be final.

The team is to meet with national partners and visit churches in Nepal’s Emmanuel Church network.

A church in transition often faces a financial crisis, a moral crisis, and a leadership crisis. Many such churches are turning to intentional interim pastors to shepherd them through this difficult time.