Presbytery Meeting

The next regular Stated Meeting will be Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in the First Presbyterian Church at 510 West Ottawa Street, Lansing.

Teaching elders, ruling elder commissioners, corresponding members, presenters and staff will gather in person to conduct business. Others may observe the meeting via a livestream video feed that will be available that day on this webpage.

The meeting theme – Make Use of Our Hands – will focus on anti-racism work within the presbytery and the work of our congregations within their own context.

Commissioners are invited to gather at 8 a.m. that day for fellowship and conversations with members of the presbytery’s Racial Equity Cohort. Light refreshments will be served.

The conversations will continue until the Stated Meeting opens at 9:30 a.m.

The sermon and keynote remarks will be given by the Rev. Paul Timothy Roberts, president of the Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, the only Historically Black PC(USA) seminary.

After lunch, meeting participants can learn more about anti-racism by attending one of three workshops:

• For the Healing of the Nation  — Presented by Rev. Roberts
• (P)Repairing for Reparations: Making Common Sense Out the Common – Presented by the Rev. Jermaine Ross-Allam, director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Center for Repair of Historical Harms.
• A Conversation about Race: A discussion about the what, where, and how of racism and the role of Christians to play – Presented by Deacon George Barfield from First Presbyterian Church in Grand Haven and the Rev. Fran Lane-Lawrence, the presbytery’s Executive Presbyter/ Stated Clerk.

Workshop registration is included in the online meeting registration form.

Please watch this website and the presbytery’s eDIGEST for more details about the meeting.

There will be an orientation for new commissioners online at 9 a.m. Thursday, June 8, 2023. Any new commissioner who wants to attend that training should indicate their interest when completing the overall Stated Meeting registration form OR send an email to office@lakemichiganpresbytery.org.  

Teaching elders unable to attend the meeting should remember to request an excused absence by using this link.

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