PCUSA Co-Moderators of the General Assembly

04/24/2026

We are excited about the gifted group of people who have accepted the call to serve in committee leadership roles at the 227th General Assembly this summer. We all gathered in Louisville this week to begin preparing - we received training, built relationships, and shared stories. It was an honor and great joy to lead this group and the staff of Presbyterian Life & Witness in worship.

LOUISVILLE — The Rev. Tony Larson and the Rev. CeCe Armstrong, Co-Moderators of the 226th General Assembly, took on the roles of Moses and Elijah during closing worship Wednesday at the General Assembly Leadership Briefing. Each donned a costume: Larson, playing Moses, wore a blue scarf, and Armst...

04/21/2026

A joy to be together with past GA Moderators this week in Louisville as we prepare GA Committee Leadership for GA227 in Milwaukee.

04/19/2026

Jesy Littlejohn and I inadvertently diverted a flight from headed to Chicago to Milwaukee mid-flight. The PC(USA) GA227 anticipation energy was just too great. We can confirm Milwaukee is ready to receive Presbyterians - even if they’re on planes scheduled for Chicago!

04/15/2026

04/13/2026

Do you have a youth in your congregation who is looking to connect with other youth, explore the way faith and service have the ability to re-shape our world, and worship in creative ways?

Have a youth group that hasn't finalized their summer plans?

Let me recommend to you the 2026 Hasting Youth Conference at Hastings College in Nebraska. It's a new conference. It'll be a small conference - but the newness and the smallness of it are opportunities to do some things and engage youth in ways a larger event cannot.

Doodle Harris will be keynoting, I will be organizing and leading the worship, there will be a mix of keynote/small group, service opportunities, fun excursions (like a trip to the KOOL-AID MUSEUM....Oh Yeeeeah!).

There is still time to register! But the window closes May 1.

Follow the link below for more.

The summer Hastings Youth Conference is for middle and high school students. It aims to help young people come to know and believe they are loved by God.

04/08/2026

We are so excited about this Webinar panel. Register and come be a part of the conversation!

The authors of the newly released book “Being Presbyterian in a Dysvangelical America” will join the PCUSA Co-Moderators of the General Assembly for a conversation about the book’s core theological framework, interwoven with stories the Co-Moderators have gathered while traveling with the church during their term. Through participation in this webinar, ruling elders and deacons will be equipped to articulate and gain clarity about the PC(USA)’s identity within today’s cultural context.

You must register by May 6 to save your spot: https://hubs.ly/Q049Xb4x0

04/04/2026

Trusting the Ground:
A Holy Saturday Devotion by Rev. Tony Larson

Job 14:7; Lamentations 3:22-23; John 19:38-42

Job knew what we forget: trees understand resurrection better than we do. "There is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again," he writes, marveling that what seems dead can surge back to life. But mortals? We lie down and rise no more. We are, Job laments, more fragile than the forest.

On Holy Saturday, even God lies down in the earth. Joseph and Nicodemus wrap Jesus in linen with myrrh and aloes, laying him in a garden tomb as evening falls. The stone seals shut. The body rests in darkness, returned to the ground from which all life comes.

This is the day when heaven trusts the soil.

The writer of Lamentations sits in similar darkness—afflicted, besieged, enclosed in stone. Yet even in desolation, a turn comes: "The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; God’s mercies are new every morning." The faithfulness that renews creation each dawn is the same faithfulness keeping vigil in the tomb.

Holy Saturday asks us to wait with the earth—to trust that the ground holds more than death, that the cycles creation has always known are woven into God's own life now. The tree cut down. The seed that must fall into the ground and die. The body given back to soil. The waiting.

We are an anxious species, quick to extract and exploit, reluctant to rest or trust. But today the Lord of all creation lies silent in the ground, teaching us what trees have always known: sometimes faithfulness looks like stillness. Sometimes hope means trusting the dark.

Prayer:
God of Holy Saturday, teach us to wait with the earth. In the silence of the tomb, help us trust that your love is buried deep enough to rise. Amen.

04/01/2026

I've written a Lectio / Visio Divina inspired by Matthew 28: 1 - 10 for my congregation this Holy Week / Easter.

I offer it here as a resource for whoever may find it helpful. May it be a blessing to you, the congregations where you worship and serve, and other communities of which you are a part.

03/20/2026

The Commissioners to the Synod of the Southwest Assembly are coming to order in Albuquerque.

03/20/2026

For all those Presbyterians who couldn’t quite wrap their mouths and brains around the IUA (Interim Unified Agency)…the wait is over, the unified ecclesial and missional agency of the General Assembly has a new name, effective immediately: Presbyterian Life & Witness. And a tagline: Serving God’s Mission in the World.

Read more here:

LOUISVILLE — Goodbye, Interim Unified Agency.Hello, Presbyterian Life & Witness.On Thursday, the Unification Commission affirmed the new name, which takes effect immediately. The new moniker also comes with a tagline, “Serving God’s Mission in the World.”