One of the few churches to ever host General Assembly, Smyrna Presbyterian Church has created room to accomodate its continued growth.
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There is hardly a more disputed action in the heavily contested history of American Presbyterianism than the 1729 Adopting Act.
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On behalf of the Covenant College Board of Trustees, Chairman Martin A. Moore announced the selection of Dr. J. Derek Halvorson as the sixth president of Covenant College. Dr. Halvorson’s tenure will begin on July 1, 2012.
Mission to North America’s (MNA) Special Needs Ministries has just released a DVD series, Same Lake Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability. The series is based on Stephanie Hubach’s 2006 book, Same Lake Different Boat. In her book Hubach encourages readers to think biblically about disability. She also suggests practical ways for congregations to better engage all members of their church body in order to more fully reflect Christ.
For the last 10 years, the PCA’s Christian Education and Publications (CEP) Committee and Mission to North America (MNA) have called churches to 50 Days of Prayer for the denomination’s General Assembly.
When Laura Story penned her now-famous song “Blessings,” she could hardly have imagined the way it would affect people from across the globe; or the acclaim it would bring.
MNA and CEP first teamed up for the Mercy Conference 10 years ago. Leaders of both organizations felt their goals lined up nicely.
The Rev. William Iverson would like to see the vision for starting ethnically diverse congregations spread throughout the PCA. So he’s helping to coordinate a special PCA-DNA Conference — “Out of Our Comfort Zones and Into the World” — scheduled for April 25-28 at the Ridge Haven Conference Center in Brevard, N.C.
Dr. Scott Swain, currently associate professor of systematic theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, has been approved and appointed the academic dean starting June 1, 2012, while continuing to teach.
Overture 10, from Rocky Mountain presbytery, calls for the 40th General Assembly to “adopt and reaffirm the position of the PCUS General Assemblies of 1886, 1888, and 1924 … on the issue of the evolution and existence of the historical Adam.
Overture 9, submitted by Rocky Mountain Presbytery, seeks to amend section 14-9 of the Rules of Assembly Operation (RAO). The overture, if approved, would allow the Assembly, by a super majority vote, to “consider a [subsidiary] matter … without having to recommit the original overture to the corresponding Committee of Commissioners.
Overture 8, from Rocky Mountain Presbytery, seeks to amend Rules of Assembly Operation (RAO) 11-5.