Presbytery Meeting Notes
For the LORD’s anger is but for a moment; God’s favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5 After weeks of heat, smoke, ash, and flames, I stepped outside for a bit on Saturday morning and thought I was...
Reflection: Ally Lee
If there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or...
Stated Clerk’s Corner September 2020
The Stated Clerk’s duties have certainly been impacted by Covid-19 like so many others. I have been postponing Review of Minute Books and Registers until October hoping that things might have changed enough for Clerks of Session to gather together and review each...
Reflection: Lauren Evans, Chaplain to Retired Church Workers
“You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures evermore.” - Psalm 16:11 “The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.” - Proverbs 16:9 I’ve been working as the presbytery’s...
Happy Days are finally here
Happy Days are finally here, The days of nine to five have disappeared. I’ve worked all my life and paid my dues. Now I get to do anything I choose. Author unknown I started my employment at the Presbytery of San Gabriel on July 1, 2001. After an interview with the...
Adventures in Justice – Merilie Robertson
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, and please the widow's cause. Isaiah 1:17 I have known Merilie Robertson since the early 1990’s when our paths crossed as my husband and I were gearing up for PC(USA) mission service....
Formation
BListen to me, you that pursue righteousness, you that seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. Isaiah 51:1 It has been a full month since we received any new orders from the LA County Department of...
New Beginnings
They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. Acts 16:6 The Presbyterian Church (USA) is an ethnic church. We are a child of the Church of Scotland, and even now there are still signs of our...
Blessed to Be a Blessing
Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers. Romans 12:12-13 Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about God’s call to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3: Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from...
Executive Presbyter
Wendy has a creative, spiritual and prophetic way of seeing the world that offers deep insights for practical living. She believes the Church is renewed from the edges, not the center, when those who’ve been marginalized are embraced.