The board of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation, has new leadership.
Meeting via Zoom Aug. 8, the board elected as its co-chairs Chris Mason, a ruling elder and lawyer from New York, and Bill Teng, a pastor from Florida.
For the past two years, Mason has been serving as the A Corporation co-chair (along with Bridget-Anne Hampden, a ruling elder from Charlotte); he was elected for an additional one-year term in that role. Teng was elected for a two-year term as co-chair – with the board using a co-chair model but with staggered terms of service, to allow for new leadership to rotate in.
Hampden will continue serving on the A Corporation board but not in a co-chair role.
Cynthia Campbell, who chairs the board’s Nominating, Governance and Personnel Committee, said this model of leadership allows the co-chairs to share responsibility, but the staggered terms of service will allow for a succession of responsibilities as well.
She and Mason thanked Hampden for her leadership over the past two years, with Mason saying “there could not be a better person to be in dialogue with.” And Hampden said, “for me this was a labor of love,” and she’s grateful to rotate out of the co-chair role “knowing the board is solid in its membership, its experience and its love for the Lord.”
The A Corporation board will next meet via Zoom Aug. 19-21.
