Summery info on the GA Committee where I actually was assigned.

Hi: while I have a McDonalds wifi still available to me this afternoon, I wanted to share a bit about the GA committee where I was assigned.. Our task was to review info, and make recommendations to the GA, concerning two permanent committees and one Commission of the PC(USA). In our committee, we reviewed the Presbyteries' Cooperative Committee on Examination of Candidates (PCCEC). This group is responsible for the ordination exams for office of Minister of Word and Sacrament. We made recommendations to the GA to revise the Book of Order descriptions, listing, and other wording in G-14.0431. Our recommendations were brought to the GA and at 11 p.m. on Thursday (June 26) they were approved. This day of the General Assembly started at 8:30 a.m.

Our committee also reviewed a self-study, relevant surveys and listened to hearing testimony of the work of the Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethic Concerns (ACREC). We made four recommendations which also were approved by the whole GA at the late hour on Thursday night.

And, approved also were five recommendations for the General Assembly Permanent Judicial Commission (GAPJC). In the testimony given to the committee, plus the extensive self-study document, we concurred with the the commission, among other items, that there is a greater need for technology support for their Commission.