 Teng seeks to restore 'sense of hope' in PCUSA National Capital Presbytery endorses candidate for General Assembly moderator By Toya Richards Hill Presbyterian News Service Special to The Layman Wednesday, December 5, 2007
National Capital Presbytery endorsed Teng's candidacy Nov. 27. Teng served as moderator of the presbytery in 2004. "Our denomination at this time really needs to have a sense of hope," said Teng, pastor at Heritage Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Va. With churches leaving the PCUSA and the report of the General Assembly's Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church still unsettling, "there needs to be someone who could stand up and remind our church what its primary calling is, and that is to go back to the basics, to put our emphasis on mission and evangelism." The Rev. G. Wilson Gunn Jr., general presbyter, said, "Bill has been a significant leader in this presbytery." He has worked "tirelessly" at various issues, especially cross-cultural understanding, Gunn said. Teng was born in Hong Kong, China and moved to the United States at the age of 18. He is a fourth-generation Presbyterian pastor, and said he has a great sense of "gospel debt" to the denomination that led his great grandfather to Christianity. "I look at myself as a product of Presbyterian mission," he said . Teng said he is still developing his platform of issues, but that he will emphasize "what's important to the church," and what kind of witness it can have to the world. He added that one thing that was particularly "edifying" to him in receiving his presbytery's endorsement was the support shown from both conservative and liberal sides of the denomination. "I think that really meant a lot to me," he said. Toya Richards Hill is a reporter for the Presbyterian News Service, on whose Web site this story first appeared. It is reprinted here with permission. |
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