Manuals and policies
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Ratification of Establishment of New Covenant Trust Company, N.A. - A Subsidiary of the Presbyterian Foundation and Related Matters
From Presbyterian Mission Agency
From Organization for Mission appendices.
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Ratification of Foundation Participation in Formation of New Covenant Funds
From Presbyterian Mission Agency
From Organization for Mission appendices
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Records Retention Policy for Inquirer/Candidate Files
From Office of the General Assembly—Mid Councils
THE PRESBYTERY of REDSTONE'S COMMITTEE ON PREPARATION
WORKING COMMIITEE DOCUMENTS: During the course of the Committee on Preparation's multi-year oversight of inquirers/candidates for ordination as Minister of Word and Sacrament (under provisions of the Book of Order 0-14.0300), a substantial number of papers, letters, documents, reports and similar documents are generated in the Committee's file on each person under the Presbytery's care. All such records are on-going, working, ecclesiastical records of the Presbytery of Redstone, and copies of substantially all of such documents regularly are provided to the inquirer/candidate concurrently with the document ...
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Research Strategies for Congregations
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Research Services
This information packet helps congregations study who they are as a congregation and learn more about their local community using qualitative and quantitative information-gathering exercises that are involving, participatory in nature, and easy to use. This information packet contains detailed instructions.
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Resolución llamando a un programa exhaustivo de legalización para inmigrantes viviendo y trabajando en los Estados Unidos con Guia de Estudio
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
The study is intended to help the church explore the complex issues regarding immigration and ministry to immigrants.
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Resolution Against Torture
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
The 217th General Assembly (2006) approved the "Resolution on Human Rights in a Time of Terrorism and Torture" and the overture from the Presbytery of San Francisco on "Petitions Against Torture."
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Resolution Calling for a Comprehensive Legalization Program for Immigrants Living and Working in the United States with Study Guide
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advocacy Committee for Racial Ethnic Concerns
The study is intended to help the church explore the complex issues regarding immigration and ministry to immigrants.
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Resolution on Just Peacemaking and the Call for International Intervention for Humanitarian Rescue (1998)
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
This resolution seeks to address the growing assumption and acceptance of the idea that conflicts in the post-cold war era involving either a major violation of basic human rights or a massive degree of human suffering require the response of the international community. Amplified by the immediate nature of television broadcasting, the intensity of such crises as Bosnia, Burma, Haiti, Rwanda, and Somalia call for a Christian response to help alleviate internal upheavals and to undertake humanitarian rescue to relieve suffering and rescue dying human beings.
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Resolution on Restorative Justice
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
This resolution affirms the continued use of restorative justice as the guiding metaphor for the work, program and ministry of the church engaged with the criminal "justice" system. If offers a simple definition of restorative justice as "addressing the hurts and the needs of the victim, the offender, and the community in such a way that all — victim, offender and community — might be healed."
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Resolution on Violence, Religion and Terrorism
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
Our church comes together every two years to discern together how best to live as faithful Christians in the world. We consider resolutions and mandate studies of various issues, which are then passed along to our churches for study and implementation. One such issue was terrorism, which resulted in this resolution, approved by the 216th General Assembly (2004) This resource includes both the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) resolution on terrorism and six lesson plans for its study.