(By Leslie Scanlon, The Presbyterian Outlook). The Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) is considering what’s being described as a “joyous” budget for 2019 and 2020 – a budget that would include a per capita increase from $7.73 per member in 2018 to $10.11 in 2019 and $10.82 in 2020. That would amount…
If approved by the 222nd General Assembly, the GA per-capita rate will increase by three percent in 2017 and another three percent in 2018. During Wednesday’s (2/3/16) joint meeting of the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) and the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board Executive Committee, both groups approved sending the recommendation —…
The Presbyterian News Service. View Larissa Kwong Abazia, Vice Moderator of the 221st General Assembly (2014) of the Presbyterian Church (USA), as she discusses the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly churchwide conversation. Go to www.pcusa.org/identity by December 18 to join the conversation. View the transcript here.
The online conversation on the identity and the purpose of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has officially started. Sponsored by the Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA), the objective of the survey “is to engage the whole church in conversation, and to provide a summary of this conversation to commissioners at the 222nd…
The Committee on the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) has invited members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) into a church-wide conversation on the identity and purpose of the denomination, and plans to share that information with the 222 General Assembly (2016) in June so it can “collectively discern God’s call for the church.” In…