Nichola Miller, lead singer of the jazz trio playing at Hell’s Kitchen restaurant Tuesday night, has a new song in her repertoire, thanks to sisters Hannah and Julia Glasgow of Junction City, Kan.
Mustering their courage — and helped forward by the Rev. Nancy Kahaian, interim executive of the Synod of Mid-America — the girls asked Miller if she knew “Jesus Loves Me.” Miller didn’t, and neither did her bass player or keyboardist. The girls sang her a line, and the singer hummed it for her keyboardist, who jazzed it up and played the sisters in.
The youth group from Atlanta’s Central Presbyterian Church has found a second home at the 219th General Assembly (2010) here.
In the middle of all the weighty business of the General Assembly, a group of those interested in the web of issues related to being the church in the digital age gathered with Jann Cather Weaver, associate professor of worship and theology and the arts at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.
According to John Calvin, we each have our own calling assigned to us “as a sort of sentry post, so that [we] might not wander heedlessly through life” (Institutes, III. 10.09).
Who knew that John Calvin himself would turn out to be Gradye Parsons’ own personal sentry?
Sheryl Taylor is a woman on a mission.
As Grace Presbytery’s director of vocations, she is charged with the responsibility for the Irving, Texas-based presbytery’s Committee on Ministry (COM) and Committee on Preparation for Ministry (CPM). Taylor arrived here with the ambitious goal of helping fill nine of the presbytery’s dozen or so vacant positions.
Two longtime Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) leaders have died in the days surrounding the 219th General Assembly here.
Kyoji Buma, a native of Kyoto, Japan, who served in the PC(USA)’s world mission and ecumenical relations departments for more than 40 years, died in late June in Closter, N.J.
Maybe infants can model healthy change for the PC(USA).
Elder Rick Ufford-Chase, Moderator of the 214th General Assembly (2004), said care for the earth is no longer an issue on the fringe, but is now “legitimately the beginning of a movement.”
The signs are that the fringe “has moved to the center,” he said. “God’s spirit is at work and the wave is beginning to crest.”
Donald Griggs made a self-deprecating confession as prelude to his presentation, “Biblical Literacy in a Digital Age,” during the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation breakfast at the 219th General Assembly (2010).
Giving thanks for the past while looking ahead to a promising future was the theme of Tuesday’s National Asian Presbytery Council (NAPC) dinner at the 219th General Assembly (2010).
“I want to thank you, because many of us have grown up and been raised in this church by the NAPC,” said outgoing GA Moderator Bruce Reyes-Chow. “For many of us, the ministries we are engaged in would not be possible if not for the work of many of you.”