Jihyun Oh is committee nominee to lead PCUSA

A Presbyterian Church (USA) nomination committee has named Jihyun Oh, director of the denomination’ s Mid Council Ministries and an associate stated clerk in the Office of the General Assembly, as its choice for stated clerk.

If elected, Oh, who was born in South Korea and raised in Kansas, would be the first Korean American to serve in the denomination’s highest ecclesial office, the second woman, and the first woman of color. Commissioners to the PCUSA general assembly, meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, June 30-July 4, will vote on Oh’s nomination.

Before being selected to lead Mid Council Ministries in 2019, Oh managed the denominational office that supports people discerning a call to the pastorate, served as an interim or associate pastor at three churches in Illinois and Georgia, and served as a staff chaplain and clinical pastoral education resident at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.