Presbymergent has entered into a new phase with the creation of the presbymergent Coordinating Group. About two months ago, we wrote about how we were looking to create a Coordinating Group for presbymergent. After a few weeks of allowing people to self-nominate themselves, and checking in with those who have been active with presbymergent since the beginning, we have formed the presbymergent Coordinating Group. It consists of 36 folks right now, both men and women, pastors, youth pastors, denominational staff, seminarians, theologians and many others.

We look forward to the challenge it will be to both live in an open-source world, and also honor our denomination’s call to doing things decently and in order – and seeing how that plays out for leadership in the 21st century. We are very excited to see how this new group will guide the continuing emergence of presbymergent.