Synod Moderator’s Corner

Moderator’s Corner

By Carol Copeland, Synod Moderator – Dear Ones, As your new Synod of Living Waters moderator, I write to thank for the opportunity to be intensely involved in the work of the Holy Sprit as I have long viewed the Spirit as the part of the Trinity that is feminine. Today I want to share …

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From the Outgoing Moderator

Dear Ones! We have just finished an amazing meeting of the Synod of Living Waters in Franklin, Tennessee, complete with 22 Commissioners, 26 Corresponding members, and 7 visitors. We began with worship, led. By Rev. Wayne Steele, Mr. Doug Marshall, Mr. Michael Snoddy, and Rev. Dr. Victor Aloyo, President of Columbia Theological Seminary. After two …

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Meet the New Moderator

Elder Carol Copeland, Synod Moderator Carol Raby Copeland was born in Athens, Alabama where she now resides with her husband of 60 years, Steve. She is the mother of one son Matthew and Gigi to two grandsons. Her hobbies include cooking, flower arranging, boating on Elk River, reading and listening to Americana music. Upon graduating …

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From Your Synod Moderator

Rev. Ann Laird Jones Soon we will move to a new season, as the liturgical year comes to an end and begins anew. Advent: a liminal season of waiting, watching, wondering, hoping. How do we imagine finding new words to express what we believe?!   What about discovering new words to express who we are, …

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From Your Synod Moderator

Rev. Ann Laird Jones, Synod Moderator Dear friends! We are quickly approaching the beginning whispers of General Assembly 226, which meets June 25-July 4 in Salt Lake City. These beginning whispers that GA is coming bring me the same glee and joy I feel when I see spring’s newness, summer’s fullness, autumn’s richness, winter’s wisdom. …

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From Your Synod Moderator

By Ann Laird Jones Our Synod may be made up of 12 different Presbyteries, myriad of regions, 4 states, all kinds of accents, customs and people, but on January 22 we were of one accord: iced in! Carefully made plans for the Synod meeting, including worship got stuck in the snow. Hours before the start …

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Preparing the Way for Christmas!

By Rev. Ann Laird Jones   Like all good celestial collision paths, Christmas Eve 2023 brings the incarnational arc as close together as imaginably possible. In the morning on December 24 we wake up to Advent 4. By afternoon we are zooming towards Christmas Eve. Purple  paraments yield to white. The now-complete circular Advent wreath …

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