Upcoming Stated Meetings

INFORMATION

The Winter Stated Meeting of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta will be held on Saturday, February 8, from 9:00am until 1:30pm at Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Stone Mountain. This message contains many important details about the meeting—please read it carefully. Pastors, please share it with your clerk of session and elected ruling elder commissioners.

Format: Upon the decision of the presbytery’s Council, this meeting will be held fully in-person. A livestream will be available of the meeting, although persons joining via livestream will not be able to participate in discussion, vote, or have their attendance recorded. Our morning break will feature a substantial snack, but lunch will not be served.

Theme, Worship, and Business: Our theme for 2025 is Beyond the Building: Living as Grounded Disciples in the World. At this meeting, we will be exploring the gift of journeying and the ways that the people of God have experienced the presence of God along the way. Our preacher for the day as we look at the story of the Tabernacle from Exodus will be the Rev. Dr. Bill Brown, the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary.

This meeting will feature the consideration of amendments to the Book of Order as approved by the 226th General Assembly (2024). Please review these amendments and resources around their consideration that are available above.

In other business for this meeting, we will consider the Presbytery’s budget for 2025, hear stories about the work of the Presbytery and its New Church Development Commission, examine persons for service in the church, and welcome seven new candidates preparing for ministry.

The commissioner handbook with the full business for the meeting will be available on this page by Wednesday, January 29.

Pre-Registration for the Meeting: Online pre-registration is strongly encouraged by the deadline of Monday, February 3 so that our hosts can be prepared to welcome us and other arrangements can be made to support the meeting. The pre-registration process is available above.

Childcare: The staff and volunteers qualified to provide childcare at Eastminster are unfortunately unavailable on the day of the meeting, so childcare will not be available.

Health and Safety: We encourage all attendees to use the time between now and the meeting to get current with covid and other vaccinations, and those who do not feel well on the day of the meeting should stay home and watch the livestream of the meeting. All are welcome to wear a mask throughout the meeting if they feel more comfortable doing so.

Pastors and clerks of session, please share this information with your ruling elder commissioners now so that they can register by the February 3 deadline.

If you have any questions about the meeting, contact Stated Clerk Andy James at cajames@atlpcusa.org. We look forward to seeing you on February 8!