The PC(USA) General Assembly — Tuesday Afternoon Update

A quick update on where some committee items stand at this moment

The nFOG committee has decided that the substitute motion will be the main motion.  While the recommendation is not finalized, and there are some interesting polity issues embedded in it, as pointed out by the ACC representative, the committee wants the PC(USA) to send to churches and presbyteries the nFOG report and form a new task force to consider the responses and revise the FOG revision for the 219th GA.

The Mission Coordination and Budget Committee spent much of the day on item 08-21 about allowing the GAC to have some control over designated funds at the Foundation.  It is not resolved yet, but the sense of the committee is that they will recommend a proposal to have GAC and Foundation work out their differences.  It has gone back to the writing committee and they will consider a new/final version at the end of their docket.

Finally, last I checked PC-biz, the Committee on Polity was debating 04-08, the Baltimore overture to change the definition of marriage from between a man and a woman to between two people.  There is a substitute motion to comment and keep the current wording.  Results as they become available.

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