Morning Reflections

General Assembly Musing - #5 - Sankofa Bird - #GA224 @pcusa @presbyterian http://mattmeinke.com/2020/06/27/general-assembly-musing-5/

It has been a quiet week from General Assembly. There was a Hands and Feet: Youth Rising Event. There has been Bible Study, in a pre-recorded session. There really hasn't been much happening. And that is the summary of GA so far: there hasn't been much happening. Of course this was the plan. With a pandemic and a virtual GA came a simplified docket and schedule, and dealing with only essential business. [ 494 more words ] http://mattmeinke.com/2020/06/25/general-assembly-musing-4/

Last night, in a rescheduled session, the 224th General Assembly elected our new Co-Moderators. Ruling Elder Elona Street-Stewart and Teaching Elder Gregory Bentley were overwhelmingly elected, garnering 304 votes and easily winning on the first ballot. Elona is the executive of the Synod of Lakes and Prairies, and Greg is pastor of Fellowship Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama. It was a moving election, even in its virtual format. [ 382 more words ] http://mattmeinke.com/2020/06/21/general-assembly-musings-3/

We are Rising! It's time. This was the call I heard earlier today a number of times at the Poor People's Campaign March on Washington that I joined. That call came from a number of religious and community leaders, including our Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, J. Herbert Nelson. While this morning and afternoon was not part of the official docket of the Assembly, we were encouraged to join in. [ 327 more words ] http://mattmeinke.com/2020/06/20/general-assembly-musings-2/

This General Assembly is like no other. It is our first virtual assembly. But not by choice -- because of pandemic-times. Instead of coming to you from the floor of the Assembly in Baltimore, Maryland, I am at home in Ohio, joining virtually, like the almost 1,000 other participants in the 224th General Assembly. And it has already caused quite a shift in things. [ 404 more words ] http://mattmeinke.com/2020/06/20/general-assembly-musings-1/

We have been living in unprecedented times. The Coronavirus, mandatory stay-at-home orders, social-distancing, and quarantine are all words many of us had not thought of much until recently. These are challenging times as pastors, as worship leaders. I have been blessed to be working among some of the most creative and hard-working pastors of my entire career, as General Presbyter of Maumee Valley Presbytery. [ 483 more words ] http://mattmeinke.com//my-top-ten-worship-ideas-in-a-post/