News from the PCA GA

The Opening Worship Service of Presbyterian Church in America General Assembly was held in Atlanta last night, and began with a quote, just before the Call to Worship, from Mark Dever's The Deliberate Church. The PCA elected a new moderator, Dominic Aquila. His bio follows below, as supplied by the PCA magazine, byFaith. At its opening session on Tuesday, June 20, the 34^th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America elected TE Dominic A. Aquila as moderator. The PCA General Assembly is holding its annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta through June 23. Dr. Aquila is president of New Geneva Theological Seminary in Colorado Springs, Colo., and also serves as the editor of the PCA Byfaithonline Newsletter. Also nominated was TE Wayne Herring, pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tenn.

Dr. Aquila has pastored churches in Richmond, Virginia, Cerritos, California, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Miami, Florida. He is a member of Rocky Mountain Presbytery.

Over the years, Dr. Aquila served as Dean of Students and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Reformed Theological Seminary. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Knox Seminary in Ft. Lauderdale, Reformed Seminary and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School’s Miami campus.

Dr. Aquila graduated from Belhaven College and Reformed Theological Seminary, both in Jackson, Mississippi. He received his Doctor of Ministry degree from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Penn.

Dr. Aquila will serve as chairman of the Standing Judicial Commission during the next year. He has also served on a number of other committees in the PCA, including the Covenant College Board and Mission to the World. He regularly visits and ministers to missionaries on the field. He has preached and taught in Jamaica, Mexico, Canada, Ivory Coast, Kenya, England, Korea, Grenada, Ukraine, Trinidad, Myanmar, Spain and Morocco.

Dr. Aquila and his wife, Davileen, have been married for 38 years, have four children, and eight grandchildren.