After hours of debate and multiple amendments, commissioners replaced a proposed task force with a commission empowered to investigate the 2025 closure of Presbyterian World Mission and recommend disciplinary action where warranted.
General Assembly approved all committee recommendations, including a ban on employee nondisclosure covenants and referral of the monogamy overture for broader study.
Documents obtained by the Presbyterian Outlook show warnings of possible disciplinary action and potential termination in a covenant mission co-workers were asked to sign — contradicting testimony that the document carried no punitive elements.
Commissioners recommend a 17-member task force to investigate the decisions that closed World Mission while also advancing a new process for reimagining the denomination's global mission.
World Mission’s closure fueled calls for stronger oversight as commissioners approved a heavily amended governance plan for the unified agency.
After World Mission's closure, two Arizona presbyteries found a way to keep a longtime border ministry alive.
Speaking publicly for the first time together, partners from Egypt, Costa Rica and Argentina described the impact of losing mission co-workers and questioned who benefited from the changes.
Historian and missiologist Stanley H. Skreslet reflects on Christian witness as the PC(USA) considers creating a new missiological statement.
Three overtures to the 227th General Assembly ask the PC(USA) to investigate the closure of World Mission, examine concerns about transparency and accountability, and chart a new vision for global mission.
A year after the Interim Unified Agency eliminated 54 mission co-worker positions, former co-workers are describing what they endured — and two GA227 overtures are calling for accountability.
After sweeping layoffs, 41 Presbyterians — including dismissed co-workers and denominational leaders — gathered at Union Seminary to begin drafting a new theology of mission for the PC(USA).
17 former mission co-workers have secured arrangements to remain in service or are working toward that goal.
The PC(USA)'s mission theology and management methods stand in urgent need of critical analysis, writes scholar and former mission co-worker Stanley Skreslet.
Outlook Editor/Publisher Teri McDowell Ott sat down with Stated Clerk Jihyun Oh to discuss public statements, program cuts, and leadership decisions.
Mission partners criticize the elimination of mission co-workers as abrupt, colonial and damaging to international relationships.
Critics of the mission co-worker layoffs cite a lack of transparency, loss of global partnerships and concerns over future engagement.
The PC(USA)'s plans to cut mission co-workers by 50%, spark concerns about global outreach, transparency, and the future of the church’s mission efforts.
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