Manuals and policies
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Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Policy Brief - Environment and Energy
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Office of Public Witness
Presbyterian General Assemblies have been speaking on issues of environmental protection and justice since the late 1960s. Their witness ranges broadly from drinking water safety and acid rain, to protecting endangered species, to cleaning up dirty power plants, to climate change and U.S. energy policy. The Assemblies’ major policy statements on environment were in 1971 and 1990, and on energy in 1981.
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Presbyterian Church (USA) Response to Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry
From Office of the General Assembly—Ecumenical Relations
Our common baptism, which unites us to Christ in faith, is thus a basic bond of unity.... Therefore, our one baptism into Christ constitutes a call to the churches to overcome their divisions and visibly manifest their fellowship,
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Presbyterian Mission Agency Board pictorial directory
From Presbyterian Mission Agency
Presbyterian Mission Agency Board pictorial directory
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Presbyterian Mission Agency Board pictorial directory
From Presbyterian Mission Agency
Presbyterian Mission Agency Board pictorial directory
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Presbyterian Mission Agency Manual of Operations
From Presbyterian Mission Agency
In addition to the Organization for Mission, the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board also has a specific manual of administrative operations that governs its work. The PMAB Manual of Operations shall be in compliance with the Book of Order, the General Assembly Deliverances, the Organization for Mission, and the Standing Rules of the General Assembly.
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Presbyterian Policy on Immigration
From Presbyterian Mission Agency
Document about the policy statements adopted by the General Assembly about this issue, ending with the resolution adopted in 2006.
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Presbyterian Principals For Interfaith Dialogue
From Office of the General Assembly—Ecumenical Relations
Christians live among people groundcd in other religions and ideologies, or in none. If our immediate circle of neighbors or friends does nor reveal the religious plurality of the world, we need look no further than our cities, our nation, and our globally-connected world to see the diverse religious traditions which increasingly intermingle there. In this environment, persons and communities affect one another even when they are unaware of doin g so.
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Presbyterian Study Grant guidelines
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Financial Aid
Presbyterian Study Grant (PSG) is the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s financial aid program for students preparing to lead and serve as a minister or Christian Educator. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) theological grant program includes Presbyterian Study Grant, and supplemental grants intended to promote diversity.
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Presbyterian Women Celebration Giving Representative
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Presbyterian Women
Celebration Giving Representative
A new position on the leadership team of Presbyterian Women, Celebration Giving Representative (CGR), has been developed by the Churchwide Coordinating Team (CCT) to interpret the giving opportunities of Presbyterian Women and encourage participation in Celebration Giving. Celebration Giving Representatives are needed to represent PW at each level—congregational, presbytery, synod and churchwide. This new position was approved at the Churchwide Business Meeting of PW in July 2009.
Basic Function
Interpret the giving opportunities of Presbyterian Women and encourage participation in Celebration Giving (which includes Mission Pledge, Birthday and Thank Offerings, Memorial/Recognition Gifts, Honorary Life Membership ... -
Presbyterian/Episcopal Bi-Lateral Dialogue Report and Agreement
From Office of the General Assembly—Ecumenical Relations
It has been nearly fifty years since the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the USA, proposed in a sermon at Grace Episcopal Cathedral, San Francisco, the establishment of a dialogue between the Protestant Episcopal Church and the United Presbyterian Church in the USA, in the hope that this would result in a united church that would be “truly catholic, truly reformed, and truly
evangelical”. This would later be expanded to include the United Methodist Church and, subsequently, seven other denominations, including three historically black Methodist denominations. This would give rise to the Consultation ...
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