GAC approves mission work plan

Presbyterian News Service: GAC approves mission work plan

Proposed strategy will guide Council’s work from 2009-2012.

LOUISVILLE – A streamlined Mission Work Plan was approved by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Council (GAC) Feb. 15 during its winter meeting here. The Mission Work Plan guides the work of the Council as it implements the mission directives of the PC(USA) General Assembly.

In a change from recent practice, the Mission Work Plan Task Force recommended that the plan guide the work of the Council over a four-year period rather than the normal two-year budget cycle. “As we listened to feedback, we sought a way for evaluation of results to play a greater role in the work we do,” said the Rev. Mary Marks King, chair of the task force. “We heard that a two-year plan has not provided sufficient time for reviewing the results of one plan before starting the next one. A four-year plan will allow us to add evaluation cycles into our work patterns…and ultimately will make our ministries more effective.”

The plan focuses the work of the GAC in five key areas: evangelism, discipleship, vocation, justice and stewardship.

This has been the focus of much of my GAC work for the past year. Maybe I can do a post in a few days explaining how it works.