first day business and Bruce Reyes-Chow elected Moderator of the 218th General Assembly

Our first day of official business at the 218th General Assembly began with a short worship service, followed by reports and presentations by various established offices within the denomination. I also hit the exhibits as much as I could. Learned lots.

Tonight, our primary focus was to elect a new moderator to serve for the next two years. After two ballots, Bruce Reyes-Chow received 55% of the total vote, with 3 other candidates. Rev. Reyes-Chow is a part of the Presbytery of San Franciso. He is the founding pastor of the Mission Bay Community Church. During the question and answer period to the commissioner, I was impressed by his "cutting to the chase" in his answers.

However, he was not my first choice, but my second of the four candidates. I was inspired by the work of another candidate, Carl Mazza, from the New Castle Presbytery. Rev. Mazza is the Director of Meeting Ground. Meeting Ground offers friendship, worship, Bible study, and prayer, emergency meals and transitional housing.

Here is a photo clip I of Rev. Reyes-Chow and myself. I have a short video clip of Rev. Reyes-Chow as he was being installed as Moderator.

All for now. Worship is at 10 am in the morning in two different venues at the same time ??