Inside the July, the fresh Rev. Bronwen Boswell was designated Acting Stated Clerk of General Installation of your Presbyterian Church (U.S.An excellent.), following the old age of your Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, II.
Whenever requested of the development solution regarding their brand new character, Boswell told you, “I’m humbled and you will delighted through this possibility to suffice the newest denomination in this way. It’s a trip, because of the COGA [Panel to your Office of your General Construction] as well as the Holy Spirit.” Like other Presbyterian women in advance of her, this lady has risen up to a situation away from management when you look at the faith whether or not resilience, interests plus the elegance off Jesus.
The new naming of Boswell as mentioned Clerk echoes most other firsts, and other women management, from inside the Presbyterian record – Louisa Woosley, Margaret Towner, Rachel Henderlite, Katie G. Canon and you may Thelma Adair getting several which are worried.
New Rev. Louisa Woosley turned the original lady minister of record away from an enthusiastic American Presbyterian denomination whenever she are ordained inside the 1889 because of the her domestic chapel inside Kentucky, a person in the fresh Cumberland Presbyterian Chapel (CPC).