A Year of Historic Steps: CNP's Work in 2025 and Beyond
Since its founding in 1997, the Covenant Network of Presbyterians has worked for transformation in church and society. In 2025, that work bore fruit in exciting ways.
Click the photo to learn more about the inaugural class of CNP Fellows.
In the last year, CNP successfully advocated for the ratification of Amendments 24-A and 24-C, adding "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to the church's anti-discrimination commitments and ensuring that commitment to inclusion plays a more substantial role in ordination examinations. Click here for more information about these constitutional amendments and a downloadable guide to implementing them in a variety of contexts.
We also launched the Covenant Fellows program, a cohort of seminarians and recently ordained pastors training together as advocates, educators and prophets on LGBTQIA+ inclusion. CNP’s signature Covenant Conversations continued in new locations, with congregations and leaders gathering in partnership with presbyteries for worship, training and discussions. Board and staff members preached and taught in churches all over the country, offering messages with theological depth and hope to support congregations, while fielding urgent requests from pastors, candidates, and presbytery and denominational leaders seeking resources and support.
Leaders of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians were among the members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) joining the global Reformed family at the 27th General Council of the World Communion of Reformed Churches in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
CNP strengthened its engagement with ecumenical partners, including participation in the 27th General Council of the World Communion of Reformed Churches in Chiang Mai, Thailand, supporting international commitments to LGBTQIA+ justice and inclusion. Finally, CNP launched this new website with expanded access to online resources, book reviews, tools for congregational engagement, video presentations from Covenant Conversations and more.
Sustaining Momentum in 2026
This year, through the generosity of supporters, CNP will continue ongoing activities while increasing efforts in several areas.
A new cohort of Covenant Fellows will diversify the voices and perspectives CNP can offer to congregations and councils seeking to be more inclusive, welcoming spaces.
CNP will deepen its engagement with world mission, ecumenical partners and General Assembly agencies to promote faithful witness and ensure accountability to the church's commitments.
At the 227th General Assembly in Milwaukee, CNP will shape advocacy efforts and bear faithful witness alongside others across the church.
Preliminary plans are also underway to resurrect CNP's national conference in 2027, creating space for conversation, fellowship and prophetic voices at a critical moment for the PC(USA).
Confident in God's hopeful future and grateful for the ever-widening welcome of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Covenant Network of Presbyterians continues to engage, educate and equip the church, calling it to bear a unified witness to generous hospitality and faithful justice.