Around the Synod

Rev. H. Paul Leap worked for the Synod of the Trinity supporting youth education in the 1960s and ’70s.

What goals do you have while serving as commissioner?: Facilitate communication between and mutual appreciation of presbyteries, synod and GA

When you’re not serving your church, what can you be found doing?: Historical research — mainly architecture and family history

The Carlisle Presbytery’s Strengthening Our Congregations Committee is collecting stories about the ministries of its churches and sharing them through an e-newsletter called “SOCC It to Me.” Click here to read the latest issue, and feel free to share it with your congregation by putting a link to it in your e-newsletter or by sending…

“We are killing ourselves, and until we in the white community feel that the death of a person of color is our death, too, it’s not going to change.”

The goal is to make this “The finest school in our neighborhood.”

When you’re not serving your church, what can you be found doing?: Playing and watching basketball (Go Tar Heels!), working out (when I can remember where the gym is), Legos…

What was your childhood dream job?: Medicine

A Synod of the Trinity grant was available to help pay for traveling costs for General Assembly Commissioners from the region who were traveling to Portland for the 222nd General Assembly, which was held from June 18-25. All told, 15 of the 16 presbyteries within the Synod region accepted the $500 grant. Here are a…

What was your childhood dream job?: School teacher (which I performed for 34 years )