OVERVIEW

• Vision letter from Session to the members of DHPC
  

• Letter from Session outlining our motions for departure

• Special Edition of Echoes outlining our Season of Discernment

• An Overview of How DHPC and PC(USA) Differ

• Connectional team presentation on the recent actions by PC(USA) - play in presentation mode with speakers ON to hear commentary

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• The Barna Report for DHPC - March 2010

• DHPC Departure FAQs

• Why Stay Presbyterian?

• Introduction Letter for DHPC from the Presbytery Connectional Team

DEPARTURE POLICIES, GUIDELINES & OTHER PC(USA) INFORMATION

• Presbytery of the Grand Canyon Policy on Congregations Desiring Departure from PC(USA)
  

• Commissioners’ Resolution On Urging a Gracious, Pastoral Response to Churches Requesting Dismissal from the PC(USA)

• Statistics on Churches Voted to Leave the PC(USA) (statistics through 2008 only)
  

WHAT OTHER CHURCHES ARE SAYING

• Reshaping the PC(USA): PFR Looks Beyond the 218th General Assembly

• Beaver-Butler Presbytery Open Theological Declaration to the PC(USA)

• Danville CPC Reasons for Change

• Southport Presbyterian Church Rationale Document March 2009

RESOURCE LINKS FROM A DIVERSITY OF SOURCES & VIEWPOINTS

• Church & World: The Total Presbyterian Website (subscription required)

• PC(USA) Homepage

• PC(USA) Press Release Archive for 2010

• Grand Canyon Presbytery homepage

• News Releases from 218th General Assembly (2008)

• Follow the major issues of the 2010 General Assembly here

• Homepage for 219th General Assembly (July 2010)
  

• The Layman Online
  

• Presbyterians for Renewal
  

• The Presbyterian Outlook
  

• More Light Presbyterians
  

• Evangelical Presbyterian Church
  

• Christian Reformed Church

• Center for Progressive Christianity

• The Manhattan Declaration

  A short Q&A with the new Vice-Moderator Landon Whitsitt