Updates and Reflections from General Presbyter
Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Taylor
February 6, 2024
From the General Presbyter Author Don Miguel Ruiz, Jr defines the Toltec word “mitote” as “the chaos of 1,000 voices all trying to talk at once in the mind.” Many of these voices are famous for their negative back chat. “You’ll never grow the church,” or “You’re a poor excuse ...
December 19, 2023
From the General Presbyter One day during Advent in New Castle Presbytery, the Administrative Assistant and I were talking with our volunteer Treasurer about our holiday plans. This gentleman who, upon discovering that his whole family would descend at his house on Christmas Eve, said “I need to go to ...
December 6, 2023
From the General Presbyter How do we keep Advent from feeling like Groundhog Day? You know, doing the same thing over and over. Answer, we don’t. Yes, we can freshen up traditions, update language, use contemporary illustrations. But we are waiting, and waiting and waiting for God’s love to be ...
What’s Happening with Enduring Witness?
From the General Presbyter The Enduring Witness fund was initiated in 2019 to resource pastors and congregations by funding the following grants: Board of Pension supplements Emergency clergy assistance Pulpit supply when pastors are on Administrative Leave Congregations’ redevelopment/ transformation Community Engagement Capital expenses related to programs Emergency property assistance ...
October 4, 2023
From the General Presbyter “As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine…” - Ephesians 4: 14a NASV Lisa Lai, an Executive Coach wrote a piece for the Harvard Business Review on the topic of ...
August 29, 2023
From the General Presbyter The other day I was driving by the community center near my home and noticed some children playing under two basketball hoops. They could not have been more than four or five years old, and they looked tiny compared to the tall basketball hoops designed for ...
July 3, 2023
From the General Presbyter When I looked on CNN to find information about the mass shooting at a Baltimore City block party, I found nothing. Never let it be said that I don’t think shooting of school children is front page news; it is a heinous crime that deserves full ...
June 7, 2023
From the General Presbyter Fake Worship? I still remember when the phrase “Fake News” was coined. It represented a sentiment that what was being reported was not an actual event, sometimes as the event was unfolding in real time. In some ways it was designed to get folks not to ...