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Assembly Committee #19: Health Issues
Last, but not least, is the committee to which I have been assigned: Assembly Committee #19, Health Issues. There are six – SIX! – items for our consideration. I’m not really sure how we’re going to have time to handle … Continue reading
Assembly Committee #11: Social Justice Issues B: the Exhibition of the Kingdom of Heaven to the World
This is not an Assembly Committee with business that gets me too excited. There are nine items. Item 11-01 on “Lifting Up the Call to Restore the Creation.” No new money required, it “1. Lifts up; 2. Commends; and, 3. … Continue reading
Assembly Committee #10: Social Justice Issues A – Promotion of Social Righteousness
“No new money.” I hope Joey Bailey, Deputy Executive Director for Shared Services, goes to every committee and exhorts them with that one sentence. “No new money.” No new studies, no new committees, or task forces. As I mentioned yesterday, … Continue reading
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Assembly Committee #9: Mission Coordination
This is kind of a homecoming for me; this was the committee I served during the 218th General Assembly (2008). It also is a hodge-podge kind of committee. There are all sorts of things thrown in here. Perhaps the most … Continue reading
ACSWP – The Pay Police
Reading through the nine — NINE — ACSWP submissions to the 219th General Assembly (2010), I started with Rec-065 “Neither Poverty Nor Riches: Compensation, Equity, and the Unity of the Church.” (As an aside, the links to business in previous notes … Continue reading
Money and the COGA Commission
One of the greatest justifications for the COGA Commission would be to address the realities of financial hardship being experienced by many presbyteries. Money — in short — is short and getting shorter. Something has to change. As the Stated … Continue reading
Watch for Comments
As we get closer to the Assembly, it will be important to keep an eye out for “comments” regarding specific pieces of business. Here’s an example: Overture 034 from Sierra Blanca overtures the Assembly “to consider that all undesignated funds … Continue reading
Assembly Committee #18: Board of Pensions, Foundation, Presbyterian Publishing
There is really only one hot issue in Assembly Committee #18: two overtures (Items 18-01 and 18-06) to have the Board of Pensions extend benefits to same-gender “spouses” and domestic partners. There is one item that has interest probably only … Continue reading →