by Albany Presbytery Communications | June 20, 2018 | GA223governanceOverturePCUSApolityracism | Blog
My role at GA is as an Overture Advocate. All business presented to the Assembly first goes to a committee for discussion and hopefully recommendation to the Assembly as a whole for final action. The fascinating piece of this is that an action which goes to the... Read more
by Dan Rogers | April 24, 2018 | GA223governanceOverturepolity | Blog
Overtures to the 223rd General Assembly of the PC(USA) meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, from June 16-23, 2018. Albany Presbytery acted in February and April 2018 to concur with the following overtures that had been submitted by other presbyteries to the Office of the... Read more
by Dan Rogers | December 13, 2017 | GA223governanceOverturepolity | Blog
In the months before each meeting of the General Assembly (GA) presbyteries send overtures to the Office of the General Assembly (OGA) to be considered by the GA. Each overture must have the concurrence of at least one other presbytery to be presented to a GA... Read more
by Albany Presbytery Communications | March 28, 2016 | General AssemblyOverturePCUSA | Blog
In 2011, a majority of presbyteries voted to replace language in the PCUSA Constitution (G-6.0106b) that was intended to bar partnered gay and lesbian church members from serving in ordained office. The new text is permissive. No new teaching about human sexuality is... Read more