The other news item that I somehow overlooked was the presbytery meeting of the Presbytery of San Diego this past Tuesday.  The presbytery heard a report from their task force on “The Way Forward.”  While I have not seen meeting minutes yet, or heard any reports, from the new, prominent placement of the task force report on the web site I must conclude that it was received or adopted on Tuesday.

As I look over the task force report from San Diego again, what strikes me is some parallels to the statement “The Challenge of out Times” that the Presbytery of San Joaquin was supposed to debate last night at their presbytery meeting.  (I’m watching for word on that meeting.)  Both statements encourage a two year period for discernment.  And the statements encourage the maintenance of connectionalism, and having churches not quickly abandon the PC(USA).  This parallelism I see not as a direct collaborative effort but as the embodiment of what many of us hope and pray for the PC(USA).

More as details become available.