Overtures
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LISTING OF OVERTURES
TO THE FORTIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
June 19-22, 2012
OVERTURE 1 from Western Carolina Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 19-2"
OVERTURE 2 from Northern New England Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 19-2"
OVERTURE 3 from Potomac Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend RAO 12-1 and 15-1"
OVERTURE 4 from Potomac Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend RAO 14-6.h"
OVERTURE 5 from Covenant Presbytery (to MNA)
“Move Montgomery County, MS, from Covenant Presbytery to Mississippi Valley Presbytery"
OVERTURE 6 from Westminster Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend RAO 7-3.c"
OVERTURE 7 from Mississippi Valley Presbytery (to MNA)
“Redefine the Geographical Boundaries of Mississippi Valley Presbytery to include Montgomery
County in Mississippi"
OVERTURE 8 from Rocky Mountain Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend RAO 11-5"
OVERTURE 9 from Rocky Mountain Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend RAO 14-9.e"
OVERTURE 10 from Rocky Mountain Presbytery (to OC)
“A Declaration Rejecting All Evolutionary Views of Adam's Origin"
OVERTURE 11 from Pacific Northwest Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 20-3, 24-2, and 25-4 to Allow a Ruling Elder to Moderate a Congregational meeting,
in a Church Not His Own, When Elected by That Congregation to Do So (in the Absence of Its Pastor)"
OVERTURE 12 from Pacific Northwest Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 43-2 to Extend the Filing Period to Sixty Days for a Complaint to the Original Court"
OVERTURE 13 from Pacific Northwest Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 43-3 to Change the Start of the Thirty-day Filing Period for a Complaint to the
Next Higher Court"
OVERTURE 14 from Pacific Northwest Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 42-4 to Change the Start of the Thirty-day Filing Period for an Appeal"
OVERTURE 15 from Pacific Northwest Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 31-2 to Clarify What Needs to Be Investigated"
OVERTURE 16 from Pacific Northwest Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 32-2 to Clarify That a Preliminary Investigation Is Necessary Even When Charges
Are Filed by an Individual"
OVERTURE 17 from Pacific Northwest Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 30-1, 30-3, and 37-1 regarding Definite Suspension from Office"
OVERTURE 18 from Pacific Northwest Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 34-1 and 33-1 to Clarify the Prerequisite, and Provide a More Reasonable Threshold,
for the Assumption of Original Jurisdiction"
OVERTURE 19 from Pacific Northwest Presbytery - RESCINDED (to SJC[RAO 17-5])
“Amend Operating Manual of the SJC 9.1 to Allow the SJC, by a 3/4 Vote, to Consider a Case
It Has Otherwise Ruled Administratively Out of Order, When Doing So Is in the Interest of Justice"
OVERTURE 20 from James River Presbytery (to OC)
“Send Letter to President of Palestinian Authority regarding Baraka Presbyterian Church"
OVERTURE 21 from James River Presbytery (to CCB, AC)
“Amend RAO 12-2 to Move Informational Reports to Online Reports"
OVERTURE 22 from Mississippi Valley Presbytery (to MNA)
“Expand Mississippi Valley Presbytery upon Dissolution of Louisiana Presbytery"
OVERTURE 23 from Philadelphia Presbytery (to MNA)
“Move Crossroads Church, Upper Darby Township, and all of Delaware County from Philadelphia
Presbytery to Philadelphia Metropolitan West Presbytery"
OVERTURE 24 from Philadelphia Metropolitan West Presbytery (to MNA)
“Move Upper Darby Township and Crossroads Church from Philadelphia Presbytery to
Philadelphia Metropolitan West Presbytery"
OVERTURE 25 from New Jersey Presbytery (to CEP)
“Utilize CEP Bookstore"
OVERTURE 26 from Potomac Presbytery (to OC)
“Response to Requests for in thesi Statements on Evolution and Adam"
OVERTURE 27 from Great Lakes Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Revise RAO 15-1 to Send All Constitutional Amendments Proposed by Committees
and Agencies to the Overtures Committee"
OVERTURE 28 from Great Lakes Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Revise RAO 8-3 to Require TEC to Report Examinees' Exceptions in the
Examinees' Own Words"
OVERTURE 29 from Savannah River Presbytery (to OC)
“Rejection of All Evolutionary Views of Adam's Origin"
OVERTURE 30 from Savannah River Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 58-5 Regarding Intinction"
OVERTURE 31 from Westminster Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 37-4 to Require That Only the Session That Imposed an Excommunication
May Remove the Excommunication"
OVERTURE 32 from Southeast Alabama Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 6 Regarding Methods of Joining a Particular Church, Adding to Present
Paragraphs 6-1 and 6-4, Adding Two New Paragraphs, and Rearranging the Order of
the Paragraphs"
OVERTURE 33 from Southeast Alabama Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 38-3a and Insert as BCO 46-6; Add New BCO 46-7 and Renumber
Subsequent Paragraphs; Remove BCO 57-6. Regarding Administering Membership
into and out of a Particular Church"
OVERTURE 34 from Southeast Alabama Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 57-5 to Require Affirmation of the Apostles' Creed for Church Membership"
OVERTURE 35 from Southeast Alabama Presbytery (to CCB, OC)
“Amend BCO 55-1 and Add a New 55-2 to Distinguish between Confessing the Faith and
Catechizing the Congregation"
OVERTURE 36 from Southeast Alabama Presbytery (to AC)
“Authorize Historical Center to Issue Commemorative Certificates for Ordination Anniversaries"
OVERTURE 37 from Pittsburgh Presbytery (to IRC)
“Church Unity and 30th Anniversary of Joining and Receiving"
OVERTURE 38 from Presbytery of the Southwest (to MNA)
“Update Presbytery Multiplication Guidelines"