(By Leslie Scanlon, The Presbyterian Outlook). The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board has approved eight people to serve as members of its executive committee for 2017-2018 – half of whom are people of color. The board also heard an update from its Governance Task Force – indicating that the task force is dropping a proposal to remove…
(By Leslie Scanlon, The Presbyterian Outlook). The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board is considering an approach that would reduce the size of the board by more than half – and would cut formal representation on the board from advocacy and advisory committees in the Presbyterian Church (USA). The proposal – being described as a white paper –…
(By Leslie Scanlon, The Presbyterian Outlook). The executive committee of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board is recommending that the full board renew Tony De La Rosa’s contract as interim executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency. The executive committee took that action in the closed portion of a conference call meeting on Nov. 17, and…
By Jana Blazek, The Presbyterian Outlook. Those are the new building blocks of the Presbyterian Mission Agency Board’s internal structure – and will be the format around which the board’s next meeting Sept. 13-16 in Louisville will be structured. The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board’s executive committee, which is meeting in Chicago July 27-29, spent time…
Transparency is essential to accountability and organizational trust. Transparency in governance includes the disclosure of how monies are spent and from what sources. The people not only have a right to know how the money they are giving is being spent but whether or not it is being spent on things that they value. The…
By Leslie Scanlon, The Presbyterian Outlook. In June, the General Assembly’s The Way Forward committee will discuss what shape and form the Presbyterian Church (USA) structure should take in a changing time. On the table: proposals to consider merging the Office of the General Assembly (OGA) and the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA), plus questions of…
By Leslie Scanlon, The Presbyterian Outlook. The unaudited year-end financial report for the Presbyterian Church (USA) shows that revenue came in just under expected levels – but expenses fell about $7.9 million less than budgeted levels, in part because of staff vacancies. That left the denomination with a change in net assets of $3.36 million…
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 —…
By Emily Enders Odom, Presbyterian News Service. Luis Antonio (Tony) De La Rosa’s first day as interim executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency was far from business as usual. As expectant worshipers entered the chapel of the Presbyterian Center for this year’s Advent service—eager to meet De La Rosa and welcome his preaching and…
By Leslie Scanlon, The Presbyterian Outlook. What should the 2017 and 2018 mission budget for the Presbyterian Church (U.SA.) look like? What should the configuration of the Presbyterian Mission Agency board be – including how big should the board be, and how should its members be selected? Those are among ongoing questions up for discussion…