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.

It was reported yesterday that a jury “awarded nearly $3 million to a Portland-area couple whose daughter was born with Down syndrome even though a prenatal test found she didn’t have the chromosomal abnormality.”

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.

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.

This years-long process will have a new beginning this Sunday when Iron Works starts its spring sermon series.