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Minutes from the 30th Stated Meeting

10/30/2023

The Executive Committee, acting as a commission, has approved the minutes from the 30th Stated Meeting of Presbytery. The minutes are available on the members only section of the website. Contact the Stated Clerk if you need the password.

Day of Prayer for the PCA

10/5/2023

An Invitation to Churches from the PCA Administrative Committee:

Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We had a magnificent time celebrating our 50th anniversary at the General Assembly in Memphis, TN. As we continue to celebrate God’s faithfulness to our denomination, I invite you to ask the church sessions in your presbytery to publicize Sunday, December 3, 2024, as our next day of prayer. This date commemorates the first GA held in Birmingham, AL, on December 4, 1973. Our prayer theme is based on the message delivered by the PCA’s first moderator, RE Jack Williamson: “To God Be the Glory.”

Please encourage your churches to set aside Sunday, December 3, as a special day of prayer. We are including a suggested prayer that can be used in the worship service. Feel free to shorten or adapt it, or develop your own approach to fit your worship context.

We are also collecting stories of God’s faithfulness to local PCA churches as they look back at their history, and forward to where God is leading them. We invite your session clerks to send such stories this month to Marlys Roos at [email protected]. Marlys is the Publications Director for PCA’s CDM.

All the information and related resources are available on https://pca50.org/dayofprayer/, including a link where individuals and churches can sign up to pray at certain times throughout that entire day.

Updated Documents for Meeting

10/2/2023

The documents for the upcoming 30th Stated Meeting of the Tidewater Presbytery have been updated and are posted in the members-only section of the website. Contact the Stated Clerk for the password.

30th Stated meeting Announcement

9/20/2023

I am pleased to announce that the 30th Stated Meeting of Tidewater Presbytery will take place on Thursday, October 5, 2023, at Hope Presbyterian Church in Smithfield, VA.

The worship service will begin at 4:30pm. TE David Osborne of Eastern Carolina Presbytery will be preaching. A dinner will be served on site following worship. The business portion of the meeting is scheduled to begin by 6:15pm.

Materials for the meeting are available in the members-only section of this website. The password is available from the Stated Clerk.

Please register your attendance or submit your request for excused absence using the online form here. Churches may register their Ruling Elder Commissioners in a single form. Teaching Elder Commissioners must register individually. Online registrations will be accepted until noon, Thursday, October 5, 2023.

Regarding registration and excused absences, please remember:

If you do not submit a request for an excused absence, you will be considered unexcused. Our by-laws recognize the following excuses: (1) immediate need for pastoral care: illness, funeral, crisis counseling, and weddings; (2) personal or family illness; (3) unexpected business demands; (4) extraordinary distance to travel by those laboring outside the bounds of Presbytery; (5) honorably retired and (6) Sabbaticals.
Ruling Elder Commissioners must be elected by their Sessions to represent their congregations prior to the meeting. If you were not so elected, you should sign in as a visitor, as you are not eligible to vote. BCO 13-1 - "When the Presbytery meets as a court it shall comprise all teaching elders and ruling elders as elected by their Session. Each congregation is entitled to two (2) ruling elder representatives for the first 350 communing members or fraction thereof, and one additional ruling elder for each additional 500 communing members or fraction thereof.”
A church that is unable to send at least one commissioner should notify the Stated Clerk with the reason for its absence if it wishes to receive an excused absence.

New TWP WebPage

6/10/2023

Please be patient with us as we get our new webpage up and running! Contact the Stated Clerk for the password to access the members only resources.

New TWP Stated Clerk

6/10/2023

Effective July 3, 2023, the Executive Committee has appointed TE Jeff Ferguson as the Stated Clerk Pro Tem for the Tidewater Presbytery. Presbytery commissioners will have an opportunity to elect a Stated Clerk of their choice at the October 2023 stated meeting. We thank TE David Zavadil for his many years of faithful service as Stated Clerk for TWP and wish him well in his new endeavors. If you would like to reach David directly, please use his new email address.

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