Monday, May 19, 2008

Preparing to serve on a Committee

I spent four days last week in Louisville along with many others scheduled to serve as committee moderators, vice moderators, parlementarian-recorders, assistants and staff support personnel. I have been assigned to moderate Committee 08, Mission Coordination and Budgets and have discovered that we will have a very full agenda. Our small team spent considerable time and effort shoehorning the many items to be considered into the alloted committee meeting times and will be working with our full committee to hear advocates and others as we seek to discern God's will for the church on the matters before us when we all get to San Jose. I feel blessed to be working with the talented individuals who are assigned to this committee team: Rev. Melissa Sevier from Kentucky, Rev. Craig Howard from Wisconsin (and McCormick), Rev. Robert Conover from California and Dr. Beth Basham from Louisville. ---- Kears Pollock

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Pittsburghers at GA 218

The purpose of this blog is to provide a journal for the Pittsburgh Presbytery commissioners to the 218th General Assembly to share their experiences, inspirations and blessings with the full "congregation" of Pittsburgh Presbytery. Each commissioner has access to add their own daily observations to this journal and visitors to the site are invited to comment.

We are deeply humbled by the opportunity to serve as commissioners and ask for your continuing prayers that each of us will be guided by and listening for the Holy Spirit throughout our participation in the work of the General Assembly.