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March 24-25 gathering will include joint session with GAC
by Sharon Youngs [mailto:Sharon.Youngs@pcusa.org]
OGA communications coordinator

LOUISVILLE - The agenda will be full for the upcoming meeting of the Committee on
the Office of the General Assembly (COGA) when it begins its two-day meeting on 
Tuesday morning, March 24.

Routine business for the committee will include hearing reports from the Rev. Bruce
Reyes-Chow and the Rev. Byron Wade, moderator and vice-moderator of the 218th General
Assembly (2008), respectively; the Rev. Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the General
Assembly; and elder Linda Valentine, Executive Director of the General Assembly 
Council.

Also on the docket will be the election of the COGA moderator and vice-moderator.
The current moderator, the Rev. Dennis Hughes (Seattle Presbytery), and vice-moderator,
elder Barbara Corwin (Kendall Presbytery), are eligible for re-election.

The committee will be asked to approve an adjusted budget for the Office of the 
General Assembly for 2009-2010. The proposal includes offering a voluntary separation
package to OGA staff. Despite per capita receipts continuing at a traditional rate,
the adjustment is necessary because of a drop in investment income created by the
global economic meltdown.

The committee will hold a joint session and dinner with the General Assembly Council
(GAC) on Wednesday, March 25. COGA and GAC members will spend the majority of their
time gaining a fuller understanding of the work of the six agencies of the PC(USA),
of which COGA and GAC are two. The remaining four are the Board of Pensions, the
 Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, the Presbyterian Foundation, and the Presbyterian
Loan and Investment Program.

The General Assembly is conducting a "six agency review" on the interrelationships
of the six. A report of the review is due at the 219th General Assembly (2010) in
Minneapolis.

COGA members are the Revs. Barbara Campbell-Davis (New Hope Presbytery), Eileen 
Lindner (Palisades Presbytery), Jerrod Lowry (New Hope Presbytery), John Purcell
 (Grace Presbytery), and John Wilkinson (Genesee Valley Presbytery), and elders 
Jack Baugh (Los Ranchos Presbytery), Kent Grimes (Memphis Presbytery), Leah Johnson
(Donegal Presbytery), Michael Kruse (Heartland Presbytery, GAC representative), 
Virginia Raney (Huntingdon Presbytery), Chris Rhodes (Redwoods Presbytery), Vince
Thomas (Twin Cities Presbytery), and Bob Wilson (North Alabama Presbytery).

Reyes-Chow, Wade, Parsons and Valentine are ex-officio members of the committee.

Editor's note: Jerry Van Marter of the Presbyterian News Service will be covering
the COGA meeting.

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