In a state with the nation’s highest foster care rate, First Presbyterian Church of Charleston offers what overstretched systems often cannot: consistent relationships, real choice and long-term trust for young adults leaving care.
The Outlook sits down with Stated Clerk of the General Assembly and Executive Director of the Interim Unified Agency Jihyun Oh to discuss changes at the denomination.
Existing ministries to remain; no staff reductions planned.
Leaders outline five priorities and four work areas to guide the PC(USA) forward.
As church buildings empty, congregations are finding new ways to align mission with property, transforming sacred space into community-serving hubs.
The final report in the PC(USA)'s mission-ecclesial merger is due in February, prior to GA 227.
To stay at the table or walk away; that was the question.
Per capita to increase 13% over next two-year cycle.
Major changes include moving moderator elections and ending mission advisory delegates.
The offering number was reduced from four to three and moved to cause-based instead of program-based beneficiaries.
Commissioners also OK’d ‘focused engagement’ with GE, Palantir over military operations.
The finance committee recommends selling government debt of countries involved in long-term military occupation, as requested by the commissioners' resolution.
The Financial Resources Committee sent the recommendation to the full assembly for consideration next week.
The finance committee recommends the assembly approve "focused engagement" techniques with GE and Palantir in efforts to end the companies’ military equipment and AI surveillance production.
13th Amendment still allows slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for people who are incarcerated.
Three PC(USA) bodies unanimously recommended “Unifying budget” to upcoming GA.
Unification Commission co-moderators describe efforts halfway through the combining PMA and OGA.
Nassau Presbyterian Church and Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church work to build trust that has been missing since 1840.
With the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly's approval, the Presbyterian Historical Society's mission statement now emphasizes: “Collect, Preserve, Share, Transform.”
GA226 will see many historic changes, including no exhibitor hall and the election of a new stated clerk.
Outlook reporter John A. Bolt sits down with the Presbyterian Mission Agency to learn how they process GA rulings — and make sure nothing falls between the cracks.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance has been responding to the "human-caused disaster" of gun violence for 24 years.
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