Hybrid Participation

Zoom Link Opens at 2:30 pm

In-person door opens at 2:00 pm


Gathering Opens in Worship at 3:00 pm

Education Hour at 4:00 pm

Education with Rev. Aaron Stauffer, PhD

An ordained Teaching Elder in the PC(USA), Aaron most recently was the Executive Director and then Special Advisor of Religions for Peace USA, where he helped launch a national anti-Islamophobia program based in the southeast, along with organizing national senior religious leaders on issues of common concern such as mass incarceration, immigration and climate change.  Before his doctoral work, Aaron was an organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation in San Antonio, Tx.  Aaron is active in his denomination, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and has been active participant in international ecumenical and interfaith organizations, such as the World Council of Reformed Churches and the World Council of Churches.

Author of Listening to the Spirit

Listening to the Spirit: The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Value, and Broad-based Community Organizing, by Rev. Aaron Stauffer, PhD

  • Offers a social ethical and political theological account of the role of sacred values in the practice of broad-based organizing
  • Provides a framework for Christians to understand their political lives as enacting their faith claims
  • Analyzes social gospel social ethics in broad-based community organizing for the first time


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     The Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy:

Lives to steward a future of God's possibility.


Rev. Dr. Dave Burgess, Moderator

Ruling Elder Barbara Abbett, Vice-Moderator  

Rev. Ryan Landino, Presbytery Leader

Rev. Elizabeth Kanerva, Associate Presbytery Leader 

Rev. Dr. Brandan Eddy, Stated Clerk