Upcoming Stated Meetings

INFORMATION

The Spring Stated Meeting of the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta will be held on Tuesday, May 13, from 9:00am until 1:00pm at Smyrna Presbyterian Church and Campground in Conyers. This message contains many important details about the meeting—please read it carefully. Pastors, please share it 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 in-person. Since we will be gathering in the Smyrna Campground Tabernacle, a livestream will not be available of the meeting, though we hope to make a recording available after the meeting. Lunch will be served at the conclusion of the meeting.

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 exploring the gift of our buildings and how we have experienced God in these spaces. We will welcome the Co-Moderators of the 226th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Revs. CeCe Armstrong and Tony Larson, as our preachers and guest leaders for the day.

In the business of the meeting, we will hear updates from Presbytery committees and commissions and examine several persons to be ordained as ministers of the Word and Sacrament. As part of our worship, we will commission our Presbytery delegation to the Presbyterian Youth Triennium this summer, celebrate the conclusion of Jane Hubbard’s ministry as the Presbytery’s Pastor-to-Pastor Team Coordinator, and join together for the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper.

The commissioner handbook with the full business for the meeting will be available on the Presbytery website by Friday, May 2.

Pre-Registration for the Meeting: Online pre-registration is strongly encouraged by the deadline of Monday, May 5 so that our hosts can be prepared to welcome us and other arrangements can be made to support the meeting. The pre-registration process is available at above.

Childcare: Childcare will be available at this meeting if requested through the pre-registration process by Monday, May 5.

Health and Safety: We encourage all attendees to use the time between now and the meeting to get current with covid and other vaccinations, and those who do not feel well on the day of the meeting should stay home. All are welcome to wear a mask throughout the meeting if they feel more comfortable doing so.

Pastors and clerks of session, please share this information with your ruling elder commissioners now so that they can register by the February 3 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 February 8!