April 18, 2024
Some of the youngest members of an Earth Care Congregation in Leesburg, Virginia are getting an early lesson in Creation Care.
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New Harmony, Charleston Atlantic presbyteries unanimously affirm the Rev. Tony Larson and the Rev. CeCe Armstrong
April 18, 2024
Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service
LOUISVILLE
A historic online meeting Wednesday between two South Carolina presbyteries, the Presbytery of New Harmony and Charleston Atlantic Presbytery, produced a unanimous endorsement for two pastors standing for co-moderators of the 226th General Assembly.
April 18, 2024
The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) is excited to announce its NCC Freedom Summer campaign, which will launch in Washington, D.C., with a Day of Action on June 19 (Juneteenth), and conclude with a Freedom Summit in Jackson, Mississippi on August 17.
April 17, 2024
Whether we or our faith communities are investing a few dollars or millions, we can, with a little outside help and some of our own insights, advance our values through those investments.
하나님의 모든 백성이 존중받고 사랑받을 수 있도록
April 16, 2024
발레리 이즈미
대학을 졸업 후 얼마 지나지 않아 26 세도 되지 않았을 때, 폴 슬레이쿠는 두 가지 중요한 결정을 내렸습니다. 바로 소박한 집을 구입하고 인근에 있는 미네소타주 화이트 베어 레이크의 제일장로교회에 등록한 것입니다.
그리고 채 2년이 안 되어 청빙 위원회 위원 중 한 명이 그에게 다가와 말했습니다. "앞으로 3년 동안 섬길 새로운 사역 장로를 찾고 있는데, 혹시 해 볼 생각 있나요?" 폴은 매우 중요한 첫 번째 질문을 던졌습니다. "장로가 되려면 나이가 많아야 하지 않나요?"
For All the People of God to be Seen and Loved
April 16, 2024
valerie izumi
Just a couple of years out of college and not yet 26 years old, Paul Slaikeu made two very important decisions — he bought a modest house and he joined a nearby church, First Presbyterian Church in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
Less than two years later a nominating committee member approached him and said, “We’re looking for new ruling elders for the next three years, would you consider that?” Paul asked the all-important first question, “Don’t I need to be older to be an elder?”
Para que todo el pueblo de Dios sea visto y amado
April 16, 2024
valerie izumi
Apenas un par de años después de salir de la universidad y sin haber cumplido aún los 26, Paul Slaikeu tomó dos decisiones muy importantes: compró una modesta casa y se unió a una iglesia cercana, la Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana de White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
Menos de dos años después, un integrante del comité de nombramientos se le acercó y le dijo: ""Estamos buscando personas nuevas que se ordenen como ancianas gobernantes para los próximos tres años, ¿lo considerarías?" Paul hizo la importantísima primera pregunta: "¿No necesito ser mayor para ser una persona anciana?"
April 16, 2024
For the fifth of six installments of their “Around the Table” podcast, which can be heard here, hosts the Rev. Michelle Thomas-Bush and the Rev. Cliff Haddox each invited a friend to talk about conversations around the table where not everyone is a person of faith.
Morales is a hospice chaplain and pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church in Liberty City, Florida
April 16, 2024
Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service
LOUISVILLE
The Rev. Danny Morales, a hospice chaplain and the pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church in Liberty City, Florida, will stand alongside the Rev. Dr. Marian McClure Taylor as Co-Moderator candidates for the 226th General Assembly.
April 16, 2024
The Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, a Presbyterian pastor and hymnwriter, has published “O God, Within the Psalms,” a hymn based on two of the passages for Sunday from the Revised Common Lectionary, Psalm 23:1-6 and John 10:11-18. “O God, Within the Psalms” is sung to TERRA BEATA, “This is My Father’s World.”
April 16, 2024
LOUISVILLE – One van, five days. That’s all it took to change the worldview of six young people. That, plus three committed adult leaders, a whole lot of faith and one big DREAAM. DREAAM, an acronym for Driven to Reach Excellence and Academic Achievement for Males, is a program designed to reach, teach and invest in African American boys at risk and to walk alongside them and their families beginning at the early age of 3 until they reach the age of 24.
April 15, 2024
In October, a PC(USA) delegation that included three international peacemakers from the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program journeyed together to Frontera de Cristo, located in the twin cities of Agua Prieta, Mexico, and Douglas, Arizona, for four days of interconnected collaboration on the dynamics of people on the move.
April 15, 2024
On Friday, the second of its two days of meeting online and at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville, Kentucky, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board had a discussion on what a number of people in the denomination are talking about: recently announced changes to the Board of Pensions’ Benefits Plan.
April 15, 2024
The brightly-lit Ramsey Gym at Beulah Presbyterian Church in Louisville came alive Saturday morning as some 20 area volunteers became a cheerful human assembly line in support of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance.
April 12, 2024
The week-long festivities celebrating the investiture of Stillman College’s eighth president, Dr. Yolanda W. Page, were capped off Friday with a ceremonial event that felt more like a church service.
April 12, 2024
In the aftermath of Monday’s International Roma Day, which commemorates Europe’s largest ethnic minority and Romani culture, nearly 50 participants joined a Zoom webinar Thursday afternoon to learn more about the Roma community, including facing challenges such as widespread discrimination in housing, education, employment, and health outcomes —particularly for its children.
April 12, 2024
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), A Corporation Board heard from people who provide important back-office services in the Administrative Services Group on Thursday.
Connected events explore the legacies of Presbyterian missionaries in the early 20th century
April 11, 2024
Kristen Gaydos | Presbyterian Historical Society
PHILADELPHIA
Through April 30, the Presbyterian Historical Society (PHS) is hosting a traveling exhibit, “Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home.” In conjunction with the exhibit, PHS welcomed Dr. Hooman Estelami of Fordham University for an event and talk on March 21.
April 11, 2024
Brian McLaren, an in-demand speaker who’s written more than 20 books with one more, “Life After Doom,” coming out next month, spent 90 minutes on Wednesday participating in a webinar with the people who run New York Avenue Presbyterian Church’s McClendon Scholar Program.
April 11, 2024
As a new generation of young writers looked on with gratitude toward the veteran members of the Presbyterian Writers Guild, who had gathered at Agnes Scott College’s Center for Writing and Speaking on April 5 to share in dedicating the Guild’s gift of its entire organizational endowment, emotions ran unexpectedly high.
