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How do I access the webinar? Once you order an upcoming webinar, you will receive an immediate PDF download confirming your purchase. A receipt confirming your payment is emailed immediately after you complete your online purchase, which can be used for your financial records. The week before the live event, you will receive an email with a link unique to you to use to access the webinar. When should I log in? Just a few minutes before the scheduled start time. This webinar uses the Zoom platform – please click the link you received a few minutes before the scheduled start time to allow your computer, tablet or mobile device to connect to the webinar. You should be able to watch and hear on your computer or tablet (you can join the audio via telephone, but you won’t need to if your computer or device has speakers). What if I want to participate with colleagues? Your purchase allows up to 6 people from a church or ministry setting to view the … [Read more...]

Multiracial churches increase as blacks, whites learn to worship together

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(RNS) — For two and a half years, Ja’mel Armstrong and Matt Ness have jointly led One Church, a congregation striving to be diverse in a neighborhood in Louisville, Ky., that is more interracial than most. It’s a work in progress, they acknowledge, but the African-American and white co-pastors say they believe their congregation, which is close to 50 percent black and 50 percent white, is more fulfilling than the more racially segregated churches they used to lead. “On our own, we just didn’t feel like that’s who we were meant to be,” said Ness, who formerly led a mostly white church. “The picture we believed in was much broader than the local church I was pastoring and the local church Ja’mel was pastoring.” The co-pastors’ congregation is part of the Evangelical Covenant Church — a small denomination that claims to be one of the most diverse in the country. One Church is part of a trend reported by scholars this month: Multiracial churches are on the rise and so is the … [Read more...]

Taxation without representation? Mid council leaders release statement addressing proposed per capita increase

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A group of 40 mid council leaders has written a statement urging the 2018 General Assembly to vote down a proposed General Assembly per capita increase– saying the proposed increase of 39 percent from 2018 to 2019 and another 7 percent from 2019 to 2020 feels like “taxation without representation.” These mid council leaders contend the number of congregations not remitting per capita will “dramatically increase” if per capita goes up, and that presbyteries would bear the financial burden. J. Herbert Nelson, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has said the increase is needed to produce a break-even funding level for the Office of the General Assembly and to do the work the denomination is being called to do – to be faithful to being a “turnaround denomination,” in his words. The proposal the assembly will consider – approved in February by the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly and the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board – would increase per capita from … [Read more...]

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