The 227th General Assembly will feature 10 committees

Planners for the 227^th General Assembly, which will meet online and in person in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 22-July 2, have announced the committee structure for the upcoming assembly.

“The discernment of committee themes for each General Assembly begins with the business submitted by councils across the church,” said Kate Trigger Duffert, an Associate Stated Clerk who leads General Assembly Planning. “It is because of the discernment of sessions, presbyteries, synods, and elected committees of the General Assembly that the business coming to the assembly emerges.”

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It is then the work of the Stated Clerk, supported by Associate and Assistant Stated Clerks, “to discern the common threads that may help to group together items of business,” she said. Identifying those groupings helps to ensure that “commissioners and advisory delegates are equipped and empowered with necessary resources for their discernment.”

“The themes that emerged in reviewing business that has begun to come in for the 227^th General Assembly indicate the breadth of ministries the PC(USA) is engaged in,” she said. “Committees will discern many topics, but amidst them all there is a clear reflection of God’s call to the church, which is the foundation of the assembly’s theme: persevere toward wholeness.”

In addition to the Bills and Overtures Committee, here are the 10 committees that will meet online June 22-24:

Theological Education and Ordination

Discerning how theological education and the process of ordination for teaching and ruling elders can best seek the wholeness of the church and all those called to serve. 

Constitutional Interpretation

Discerning topics related to the Book of Order and Book of Confessions, including how they guide the church toward wholeness. 

Reformed Identity Around the World

Discerning what it means to be the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), how we are called to persevere as people of Reformed faith, and how wholeness can be lived out globally through our witness and partnerships.

Reformed Identity in the United States

Discerning what it means to be the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), how we are called to persevere as people of Reformed faith, and how wholeness can be lived out in the United States.

Racial Justice

Discerning how the PC(USA) can persevere against racism and inequality with an eye toward the wholeness of God’s diverse Creation.

Gender and Sexuality Justice

Discerning how the PC(USA) can persevere against gender- and sexuality-based injustices with an eye toward the wholeness of God’s diverse Creation. 

Climate and Environmental Justice

Discerning how the PC(USA) can persevere in its care for the whole of God’s Creation through environmental witness.

General Assembly Relationships

Discerning how the wholeness of the PC(USA) is lived out in relationship between the General Assembly and its bodies. 

General Assembly Operations

Discerning how the General Assembly embraces wholeness in its planning and operations.

Financial Stewardship and Witness

Discerning how to persevere toward wholeness through stewardship of the church’s resources and the use of those resources for witnessing to the world.

Learn more about the 227^th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) here. Read up on the proposals that have been submitted to date here.