The General Assembly Council has approved a mission budget for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for 2009 and 2010 that does not call for layoffs, but would use $7 million in reserves to balance the budget and would require the denomination to raise $2.1 million in new funding for world mission in each of the next two years.
The budget proposal, which the General Assembly still must approve in June, calls for an increase in the number of mission co-workers who would serve the PC(USA) internationally.
And it would restore the denomination’s Environmental Ministries office, which was eliminated in a major round of budget cutting in May 2006. At least two overtures coming to this year’s assembly have asked for that — with one from Mid-Kentucky presbytery,...
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