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Commission calls for initiatives in racial ethnic efforts and GA agencies

Erin Dunigan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:09:29 +0000

DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission is calling for reviews of the denomination's top-level agencies and its racial ethnic ministry.

Janet Edwards, same-sex couple advocate fails to obtain Pittsburgh Presbytery’s endorsement

Erin Dunigan — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:48:53 +0000

The Rev. Janet Edwards, a nationally prominent advocate for same-sex couples in a presbytery that consistently opposes gay ordination and gay marriage, tried and failed to obtain Pittsburgh Presbytery's endorsement for her to seek one of the two highest offices in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Read full story

Mid-Councils Commission calls for non-geographic presbyteries, movable affiliations

Erin Dunigan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000

DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission has voted 15-5 to permit non-geographic, “provisional presbyteries” as part of a “designated season of reflective experimentation” in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Mid-Councils Commission lays out next steps in synod transition

Erin Dunigan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:05:27 +0000

DALLAS – The General Assembly Mid-Councils Commission made a key decision last fall: it would recommend to the 2012 General Assembly that synods would no longer exist in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as councils with ecclesiastical responsibility.

Citing ‘many unknowns’ in new denomination, Orlando church, opts for EPC instead

Erin Dunigan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:30:33 +0000

Feeling out of alignment with the direction being taken by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a large Florida congregation has voted to leave the PC(USA) to join the more conservative Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

New denomination remains a work in progress

Erin Dunigan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:58:29 +0000

ORLANDO, Fla. – While the Fellowship of Presbyterians has launched a new denomination, called the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians (or ECO for short), some folks still have questions about exactly how things will work.

Fellowship’s theology document may remain a work in progress

Erin Dunigan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:34:51 +0000

ORLANDO, Fla. – Two members of a writing team that produced a theology document that's part of the constitution of the new denomination created by the Fellowship of Presbyterians said Jan. 19 that they expect changes to be made in their handiwork in the years to come.

A bold church unafraid: Fellowship casts vision

Erin Dunigan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:50:00 +0000

ORLANDO, Fla. – All through the day on Jan. 19, John Ortberg and others at the Fellowship of Presbyterians Covenanting Conference cast a vision.

It was of a bold church unafraid to take risks; one that makes disciples; one that takes the best of Presbyterian history and tradition and points it in new directions.

We expect what we inspect

Erin Dunigan — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:10:12 +0000

ORLANDO – Instead of just requiring congregations to submit annual statistical reports, the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians would ask for annual narrative reports, as Presbyterian congregations routinely did in the years before 1925.

Fellowship of Presbyterians releases new theology and polity documents: Orlando, January 19

Erin Dunigan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:16:46 +0000

ORLANDO – The Fellowship of Presbyterians has given a name to its new Reformed body. The new denomination will be known as the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians.

John Ortberg, a well-known author and the pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in California, kicked off the second day of the Fellowship’s Covenanting Conference Jan. 19 by preaching at morning worship. As that ended, the Fellowship distributed revised copies of its theology and polity documents – the cornerstones of the new denomination’s constitution.