2011 PC(USA) Fall Meetings Materials
OGA Fall Polity
(October 17-19, 2011)
Monday October 17
Session I
“The Calling of the Church”
Gradye Parsons, Stated Clerk
Mission workers Nancy and Shelvis Smith-Mather, who were commissioned at the 2011 Big Tent, tell about how they will work with RECONCILE, an indigenous ecumenical Christian organization that promotes peace-building in South Sudan.
This short video presents three examples of mission co-workers who are addressing the root causes of poverty, engaging in reconciliation work, and sharing the Good News of Christ's love with a hurting world. If you’d like a DVD of the video, please contact Nicole Gerkins.
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A general overview of GA per capita that can be used as is or tailored to fit a presbytery, synod, or congregational context. (Requires PowerPoint software.)
This video welcomes visitors to the Big Tent and highlights the RE&WM/PW ministry area’s new leadership institutes, one of which was held at Big Tent, in which diverse women leaders share their stories of call.
This video provides a welcome to the AllWomen Website and highlights the RE&WM/PW ministry area’s new leadership institutes, in which diverse women leaders share their stories of call.
Following a brief overview of the mission and ministry of RE&WM/PW, this video shows the many faces of women’s leadership development and how the RE&WM/PW ministry area works to equip, empower and connect women leaders across the church.
This video serves as a brief introduction to one of Racial Ethnic & Women’s Ministries/PW’s newest initiatives, Cross Cultural Ministries, in which the church engages in “mission in reverse” by consulting with European-American congregations and Mid Council leadership to assist them in their efforts to become more diverse and cross cultural.
Here is bold new vision, something we can all get behind. A direction that resonates with the very direction the Holy Spirit is speaking to the hearts of women and men all around the Church. Something the Lord is inspiring the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to take on. We are focusing our efforts on creating conditions that will allow our existing worshiping communities to flourish, and engages them in giving birth to over 1,000 new worshiping communities in the next ten years. Some are suggesting this number isn’t big enough.
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This video tells the story of how a Bible study that began in the home of the Rev. David Nzioka in 2003 became the newest chartered church in the PC(USA), and first Swahili-English speaking congregation.
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