Church must reflect changing world, moderators told

Wealthy, white, English-speaking church must diversify, Aja says

by Toya Richards Hill
Special to Presbyterian News Service

LOUISVILLE — Against the backdrop of a highly diverse, multicultural society, it’s critical that Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) leaders for the 21st Century be adaptive and willing to build a “church that reflects creation in all of its colorful glory.”

That was the message brought by the Rev. Tony Aja, interim pastor at Louisville’s Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church, during opening worship for the 2008 Moderators’ Conference held here Nov. 21-23.

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