Upcoming Stated Meetings

INFORMATIOn

The Summer Stated Meeting of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta will be held on Tuesday, August 12, 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 2:00 P.M. on Monday, August 11. 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 2:00 P.M. on Monday, August 11. 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 found above.

Theme, Worship, and Business: Our theme for 2025 is Beyond the Building: Living as Grounded Disciples in the World. At this meeting, we will be looking at the gifts and challenges of destruction and rebuilding as we explore how people have experienced God when everything they knew was being torn down and rebuilt. As part of our worship, Rev. Sarah Lane of the Zo Presbyterian Church and Rev. Jenelle Holmes of Ormewood Presbyterian Church will offer us reflections on Ezra 3:8-13 and Haggai 2:1-9.

During the business portions of the meeting, we will hear updates from the Executive Presbyter and Presbytery’s Council regarding the implementation of the new regional-strategic model for the presbytery’s engagement with its congregations. Business for the meeting will include examinations for ordination and transfer into the presbytery, introductions from transferring minister members, consideration of a potential new candidate in the ordination process, and approval of the presbytery per capita rate for 2026. The commissioner handbook with the full business for the meeting is now available above.

Registration: Registration is required by 2:00 P.M. on Monday, August 11, 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 August 11 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 August 12!