Tag: GAC
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My Metaphor for the September GAC Meeting
I checked my email this evening, and a message reminded me to make arrangements for the September General Assembly Council meeting. This will be the first-ever joint meeting with GAC and Presbytery Executives. Furthermore, we will be living into a reconfigured GAC structure with a new moderator, a new Executive Director, and staff who are…
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A Reflection on the GAC and Communication
Possibly my single biggest frustration with work at the General Assembly Council is poor communication. While there is an improvement, I believe we did a mediocre job communicating our message about decisions made at our last two GAC meetings. My biggest complaint when I talk with Presbyterians is that they never hear what the GAC…
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Back to Louisville for GAC
I am winging my way to Louisville, KY, for another GAC meeting today. It starts this afternoon and ends Saturday morning. I have some blog posts set up to post each day. As much of this GAC meeting will be in executive session, there won’t be much I can report. I will still be checking…
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General Assembly Council: What Next?
There were several newsworthy decisions made by the General Assembly Council last week. Most of those have been well covered in the press. In my estimation, the most significant changes were adoption of the new governance plan and the Mission Work Plan, 2007-2008. This has generally been referred to as restructuring. While restructuring unquestionably is…
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GAC February 11
The business on Saturday morning featured the reports of the major divisions. The proposal to make Presbyterian Disaster Assistance a separate corporation was a major issue. That in itself is not new. The idea has been under study, and there was expected to be some report to the General Assembly in 2008. What was new…
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GAC February 10 (Part 2)
I wrote earlier that on Friday morning, the General Assembly Council adopted the Mission Work Plan 2007-2008 with two modifications. First, the Evangelism objective changed by one word from “religious” to “church” so that it now reads as follows: Equip Presbyterians, governing bodies and others to witness locally and globally to the Gospel of Jesus…
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GAC February 10 (Part 1)
The GAC approved the Governance Report by a vote of 38-23 with minor modifications. The most significant change is that the original plan called for nine members from the three preceding General Assemblies (three from each assembly.) That number was reduced to two members from each of the three preceding assemblies for a total of…
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GAC February 9
I spent the entire day today in the Mission Support Services committee. Business ranged from mundane to controversial. Two topics took a considerable amount of time. First, there was the ongoing dilemma about how best to relate to the Historically Racial and Ethnic Colleges. These schools are Cook College and Theological School (Tempe, AZ), Johnson…
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GAC February 8
This Morning the GAC met in plenary. Our first business action was to elect a GAC moderator and a new GAC vice moderator. Allison Seed (Heartland Presbytery) was elected the new moderator, and Charles Easley (Greater Atlanta Presbytery) was the vice moderator. The rest of the morning and the early afternoon, we heard a helpful…
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GAC February 7
The General Assembly Council meeting got underway Tuesday. We began by hearing the final reports of the Governance Task Force, the Performance Excellence Task Force, and the Mission Work Plan '07-'08 Task Force. I have already done posts on two of these reports. You can find them at: GAC Governance Makeover GAC Mission Work Plan:…