Upcoming Stated Meetings

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Registration for the meeting closed at noon on Monday, April 29.

*The 4/22 handbook update includes an update to the Bills and Overtures report. You may download this report as a separate file here.

Slides from Spring Stated Meeting Council Presentation

INFORMATION

The Spring Stated Meeting of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta will be held on Tuesday, April 30, beginning at 9:00am via Zoom. This message contains many important details about the meeting—please read it carefully. Registration for the meeting is required by the deadline of noon on Monday, April 29. Pastors, please share this information 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 on Zoom. Registration for the meeting is required by the deadline of noon on Monday, April 29. No late registrations will be accepted. Only one voting commissioner will be permitted on each Zoom connection. Further instructions regarding Zoom for this meeting are included on page 2 in the commissioner handbook above.

Theme, Worship, and Business: Our theme for 2024 is Finding Meaning, Inside and Out. For the Spring Stated Meeting, we will be exploring the virtues of hope and humility that mark thriving congregations. As part of our worship, Rev. Emily Choi of The Story New Worshiping Community and Rev. David Lower of Saint Luke’s Presbyterian Church in Dunwoody will offer us a sermon on Romans 5:1-5. We will also be commissioning our commissioners to the 226th General Assembly this summer.

Business for the meeting will include an examination for ordination, introductions from transferring minister members, consideration of a potential new candidate in the ordination process, and review of a proposed overture to the General Assembly from Oakhurst Presbyterian Church calling for action so that children may live free from gun violence. We will hear a report from Presbytery’s Council regarding the Unified Conversations toward a sustainable budget and an update from Clark Simmons of the Board of Pensions. The commissioner handbook with the full business for the meeting is now available above..

Registration: Registration is required by noon on Monday, April 29, so that our staff and volunteers can prepare the Zoom meeting for all who will be attending. You will receive a confirmation email with your Zoom connection information once your registration has been reviewed and approved.

Pastors and clerks of session, please share this information with your ruling elder commissioners now so that they can register by the April 29 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 April 30!