Tag: General Assembly Council

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…

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:…

I am flying to Louisville this morning to attend the General Assembly Council meeting. I will be there until Saturday at noon. I expect to be reporting back on my experiences, but my posts and responses may be more irregular. The Governance Task Force and the Mission Work Plan Task Force make their presentations on…

The February meeting of the General Assembly Council (GAC) of the Presbyterian Church, USA, will be one of its most significant meetings in recent years. The GAC has had multiple task forces at work, visioning a new way of serving the Church in the Twenty-First Century. My understanding was that the reports of the various…

GAC BeginsGAC September 20. Pre-Meeting.GAC September 21. Convened.GAC September 22. Halfway.GAC September 23. Sipping From a Fire Hose.Reforming the GAC and Beyond

I am back from the General Assembly Council meeting last week in Sacramento. Having served on the Council for a year now, I am finally beginning to get a big picture of how things operate. From where I sit, "We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us!" We have some major systemic problems.…