Tag: General Assembly Council
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GAC Update
I am writing this from the floor of the GAC meeting. We have completed the budget and staffing decisions for implementing the new mission work plan. The decision has been made to reduce the GAC budget by more than nine million dollars. You will likely see the budget numbers by objective if you check media…
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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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2006-2008 budget cuts will total $9.15 million (GAC)
2006-2008 budget cuts will total $9.15 million, is a news release from the Presbyterian Church (USA). For you Presby-junkies, this news release adds a little more meat to what we at the GAC have been wrestling with. I think the release also does a nice job of tying together many pieces to get a more…
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If it’s broke … (General Assembly Council). A Response.
Jack Haberer has published a piece in the Presbyterian Outlook called If it’s broke … that asks questions about the changes being made to the General Assembly Council of the Presbyterian Church (USA). He listed seven questions, and I gave my response to those questions on the Outlook website. Here is my response: I am…
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General Assembly Council. February, 2006, Index
GAC February 7 GAC February 8 GAC February 9 GAC February 10 (Part 1) GAC February 10 (Part 2) GAC February 11 General Assembly Council: What Next?
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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…