San Diego Presbytery Update
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January 09, 2012
January 2012
San Diego Update
Glenkirk Family,
Someone stopped me in the lobby on Sunday and asked me for an update on our vote to transfer to the San Diego Presbytery. Here are some of the latest developments:
· As you recall, last year at a congregational meeting, Glenkirk’s congregation voted by 97% to request a transfer out of our current Presbytery and into the San Diego Presbytery.
· Our Session has met with a team from the San Gabriel Presbytery that wanted to ask about the process of our decision making.
· Our staff has met with a team from the San Diego Presbytery that wanted to interview us. We filled out quite a bit of paperwork describing Glenkirk’s ministries and vision. Soon they will meet with our Session as well.
· Both Presbyteries will need to vote on this, and then the Synod, a higher governing body, will need to vote on it.
We should have a strong sense by July, when the General Assembly meets, of how the process will go.
In the meantime, a new denomination is being formed this month for churches that wish to leave the Presbyterian Church (USA). I will be attending a meeting in Orlando with around 2,000 other people that are following this process.
All that to say, this is a time of tectonic change for denominations in general and for the Presbyterian Church in particular. Whatever it looks like in the future, it won’t look like what it did in the past. No one quite knows what the final structures will look like, and there are many different experiments being tried around the country.
In the meantime, Glenkirk Church continues to witness faithfully to the love and truth of Jesus Christ. We haven’t changed our theology or our mission. We will continue to lead uncommitted people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
If you’d like to know more about the San Diego Presbytery, you can read their vision statement here:
San Diego Presbytery Declaration_ Our Missional Vision
and their theological statement here.
Keep the church in prayer, and keep the faith.
Blessings,
Pastor Jim Miller
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