Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of stories about the more than 50 Presbyterian mission workers and international peacemakers who are speaking in more than 150 presbyteries in the coming month as part of World Mission Challenge. — Jerry L. Van Marter
When Alice Winters enters her classroom in Colombia, she engages her students as both professor and learner.
This veteran Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission worker teaches her students about biblical languages and history. At the same time they teach her about a biblical faith that sustains them amid poverty and the violence perpetrated by a …
Virginia West Davidson, a diminutive and feisty mother of four who became a towering figure in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for her tireless advocacy of full inclusion of gay, lesbian bisexual and transgendered members in the life of the church, died Oct. 19 at her home in Rochester, N.Y. She was 93.
A native of Rochester — she and her two sisters were known as “the three West women” — Davidson was an active part of Downtown United Presbyterian Church her entire life. After graduating from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, she returned to Rochester to work for Kodak. During World …
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — At its Oct. 9 meeting, Yukon Presbytery completed work on a mission partnership with Tayal Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan.
One next step in the partnership is to organize short-term pastoral exchanges between the two presbyteries.
MINNEAPOLIS — Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area will host a Sexual Misconduct Prevention training event on Oct. 24 at Spirit of Life Presbyterian Church in Apple Valley, Minn.
The event is designed for pastors, youth leaders, Christian Education leaders, elders and deacons in congregations.
SEATTLE — The Synod of Alaska-Northwest is accepting applications for grants to congregations for …
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of stories about the more than 50 Presbyterian mission workers and international peacemakers who are speaking in more than 150 presbyteries in the coming month as part of World Mission Challenge. — Jerry L. Van Marter
“How many of you are afraid of Muslims?” asked Bernie Adeney-Risakotta, a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission co-worker who serves in Indonesia
In the adult education class at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, one brave man out of 30 people raised his hand.
Adeney-Risakotta suggested that the fear we might feel at seeing a …
Legend has it that when the Scottish reformer John Knox traveled to Geneva to meet his mentor, John Calvin, he was appalled to find the Presbyterian patriarch bowling on the Sabbath.
So offensive a Sabbath activity was (lawn) bowling among many Puritan reformers that the Church of Scotland — which Knox founded — has at times banned the practice.
But John Calvin was an avid bowler ... and any day of the week was good for him.
And so it is for the Presbytery of Miami Valley. So much so, that the presbytery is hosting a bowling-and-birthday-cake party on …
DECATUR, Ga. — Columbia Theological Seminary’s Center for Lifelong Learning is offering a tour of the Georgia and South Carolina lowcountry from April 5-9, 2010. Leading the tour is Erskine Clarke, professor emeritus of American religious history and author of the award-winning book Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic. Registration and tour deposit are due November 20, 2009.
The five-day tour offers an opportunity to learn how a strong Calvinist and Presbyterian presence helped shape the religious, cultural, and social life and the economy of early South Carolina and Georgia. The itinerary includes visits to rural churches, museums, cemeteries, former slave …
Editor’s note: This is the latest in a series of stories about the more than 50 Presbyterian mission workers and international peacemakers who are speaking in more than 150 presbyteries in the coming month as part of World Mission Challenge. — Jerry L. Van Marter
As part of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s World Mission Challenge, the Rev. Paul Matheny traveled to Oklahoma’s Cimarron and Eastern Oklahoma presbyteries Oct. 9-18 to share the good news of God’s work in the world.
Matheny and his wife, the Rev. Mary Nebelsick, are mission co-workers, serving in the Philippines at Union Theological …
The influence of the 16th century Protestant reformer John Calvin has probably not been felt as mush in any single country as South Africa.
“In South Africa, the reception of Calvin has been deeply ambiguous and controversial, and it remains so until today, Dirk Smit, professor of systematic theology and ethics at the University of Stellenbosch in that country, told students at the Protestant Theological University in Kampen, The Netherlands, as Protestants worldwide mark the 500th anniversary of Calvin’s birth.
South Africans are remembering how the followers of the Protestant reformer were counted among the most strident supporters of apartheid …
Editor’s note: This is the latest in series of stories about the more than 50 Presbyterian mission workers and international peacemakers who are speaking in more than 150 presbyteries in the coming month as part of World Mission Challenge. — Jerry L. Van Marter
The seed of the Rev. Bill Soldwisch’s 25-year career as a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) mission co-worker in Mexico was planted by his pastor in Pasadena, Calif., when he was a teenager.
“Through his own mission service and his leadership of youth mission trips to Mexico, he taught that we learn a lot more about …
For the past month or so, mission co-workers with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have been traveling the country, sharing stories of service with 152 presbyteries as part of the World Mission Challenge. But from Oct. 22-24, they’ll gather in Cincinnati for the World Mission Celebration.
As a conference for anyone with an interest in mission, the celebration will offer workshops, plenary sessions, exhibits and activities for people with all mission backgrounds and levels of experience.
“It is lifting up God’s work in the world and pointing to (attendees) how they can be part of it,” said Don Dawson, …