I am writing a narrative of Hope Presbyterian Church’s transition from the Presbyterian Church (USA) to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. I felt I should place it within the history of the PCUSA and the Sacramento Presbytery. This is my beginning. By Viola Larson, Naming His Grace blog. Local history lies in the context of wider…
By Viola Larson, Naming His Grace blog. On December 13, the presbytery negotiating team, (PNT), held a meeting in the Sacramento Presbytery offices, inviting all of those interested in why they were asking for an administrative commission to be put over Journey Church. They also invited those interested in staying in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)….
By Viola Larson, Naming His Grace blog. We live in a time of false teaching and apostasy. The Presbyterian Church (USA) carries this burden of apostasy. It usually cost something to stand faithfully in such times. In JRR Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, as a new evil Shadow arises and creeping darkness engulfs their…
By Viola Larson, Naming His Grace blog. It was the most unusual presbytery meeting I have ever attended. It was about the Korean churches in our presbytery. The meeting was very small; most Sacramento Presbyterian Church (USA) churches, both orthodox and progressive, seem to have just given up and are allowing a few to plan the…
By Viola Larson, Naming His Grace blog. Much earlier a small Presbyterian Church (USA) had an Administrative Commission placed over them in Burney, California. The Burney church was counted in schism by the AC. I wrote about this at Schism, heresy and control. The main body of this small church with the exception of only…
By Rachel Lee, Christianity Today. Zion Presbyterian Church, a Korean church located in Sacramento, Calif., has recently decided to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA), even if leaving the denomination means losing the church property. The church held a congregational vote to be dismissed from the PCUSA on August 30, which resulted in 100 out of…
By Viola Larson, Naming His Grace blog. So what is schism? How does it fit with heresy? Part of my thoughts are at the moment centered on a little church in Northern California, Burney Presbyterian Church. The Sacramento Presbytery held a special meeting to vote on a motion to place an administrative commission over the…
By Viola Larson, Naming His Grace blog. We get Letters! Well if you are an ordained member of Journey Presbyterian Church in Folsom, California you got a letter inviting you to a meeting. The invite came by way of what was the Sacramento Presbytery’s discernment team but is now the engagement team. This is a…
By Viola Larson, Naming His Grace blog. Sacramento Presbytery, my presbytery, will be voting on a new dismissal document at the next presbytery meeting. You can read the policy here: Gracious Dismissal Policy Review Task Force- Proposed Policy. This change comes just as three more churches in the presbytery are in the midst of discernment. The…
By Viola Larson In the May newsletter of the Presbytery of Sacramento our General Presbyter, Rev. Jay Wilkins has written a message about the debate going on in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on same sex marriage. He is very polite and straight forward about it and I appreciate that, but I am bothered that Wilkins…