Local volunteers who shared their testimonies from Transformed Image www.transformedimage.com at the OBO booth at GA, an Exodus member ministry in San Jose, CA. Read testimonies »

On the Plenary floor of the 218th PCUSA General Assembly

The General Assembly has voted to approve all three major items related to ordination standards:

1. The GA added a new authoritative interpretation of the constitution that is specifically designed to allow sessions and presbyteries to ordain persons who do not abide by the constitutional standards for ordination;

2. The GA removed an existing authoritative interpretation that prohibits homosexual practice for church officers.

These two actions are immediately effective.

3. The GA voted to send to the presbyteries an amendment to the constitution, namely the deletion of the "Fidelity and Chastity" standard and the addition of language that says a sincere effort to obey one's personal interpretation of scripture is the standard for ordination.

It is difficult to imagine what more this Assembly could do to speak clearly about the state of the PC(USA). These are not little changes. And they were made with full knowledge of the effects of "little" changes at the last General Assembly.

PFR will very soon speak to the church about this GA and where we now are as denomination and as a renewal movement.

For more: http://www.ga2008.com/

Bob Blackford speaks on "Living with Aids" at GA luncheon

Other luncheon speakers:
General Assembly Commissioner, Pastor Steven Frank, shares his story of deliverance from same-sex attraction
Kristin Johnson spoke on "Addressing Lesbianism and Bisexuality"

Our OBO booth at GA with OBO board members: Marilyn and Mark Markham, Maria Cãrdenas, Jeff Winter and Mike Goeke

Kristin Johnson, OBO director, speaking at a local Presbyterian church in Milpitas, CA (one of 13 churches visited in the last nine months) See churches who have supported OBO on our website http://www.oneby1.org

OBO Board members outside local PCUSA church in Milpitas, CA (Jeff Winter, Mike Goeke, Maria Cãrdenas, and Ben Willis)