Attention Commissioners

Congratulations on your election to the 218th General Assembly of the PC(USA). You will soon be engaged in an event that will be both exhilarating and demanding. You will be pushed to your limits spiritually, mentally and physically as you engage in discerning the will of God for yourself, your church and the world we all live in.

The Advocacy Committee for Racial Ethnic Concerns (ACREC) continually evaluates shifting social trends in church and society and provides advice and counsel to the General Assembly. As always, we will be presenting the General Assembly with our own resolutions and hope you will find the links below helpful for understanding our work and recommendations.

This year, ACREC brings the following to the 218th General Assembly:

• Katrina Resolution
• Belhar Resolution
• Education Resolution
• Climate For Change Report
• Voting Rights Resolution (Joint Resolution with Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy)
• ACREC 2008 Agency Summary
• ACREC 2008 Self Study Report

Climate for Change graphs
Get full-color printer-friendly bar graphs that show the total employment percentages of each of the six corporate entities related to the General Assembly by race, ethnicity and gender, broken down by salary range.

ACREC also provides Advice and Counsel on other business coming to the Assembly.

A new dream

Noushin holds a little girl in one of the palapa homes in the village of Dzan, Mexico. Photo by Tiffany Gonzales.

Read the reflection provided by Noushin Darya Framke, chair for the Advocacy Committee for Racial Ethnic Concerns (ACREC), on her experience in Merida, Mexico. Noushin traveled there in the fall of 2007 with ACREC committee members for a joint meeting with the Advocacy Committee for Women’s Concerns (ACWC). Together they explored and learned about the driving forces behind immigration, and the impact on those who immigrate as well as on the communities they leave behind.

Advocacy Committee for Racial Ethnic Concerns

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The mission of the Advocacy Committee for Racial Ethnic Concerns (ACREC) is to advocate for full access for all Racial Ethnic/Immigrant groups to all programs, ministries, middle governing bodies and congregations in the Presbyterian Church by monitoring implementation of policy and corresponding actions, decisions and issues of racial ethnic concern. ACREC shall have direct access to the General Assembly and General Assembly Council to provide advice and counsel assuring compliance with the Book of Order, section G-4.0403 and section 5.6 of the Articles of Agreement to ensure advocacy and monitoring functions in the areas of Racial Ethnic Ministries.

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