In 2006, Pastor Paulo Lima was working at the Renewed Presbyterian Church (Pentecostal) in Brazil when Maria Helena came to him. He hadn’t seen her in a long time.
“She told me, ‘As I was praying for you, the Holy Spirit told me to bring you a message.’ I said, ‘What? You couldn’t have picked up a phone and called?’”
Even though it has moved three times in the last four years, the Parish Center of the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy (MPC) here is easy to find for those who need it.
During a recent advent season, the Rev. Howard Chapman, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Marion, wanted to use visual and audio media to tell his congregation the annunciation story in a new way. So he found a few still shots of pregnant women and a nurse and recorded women reading the words of parishioners answering a simple, but personal question: How did you feel when you first learned you were pregnant?
Faced with an imminent $28.6 million deficit in its healthcare plan, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Board of Pensions unveiled at its Oct. 27 meeting here a new dues structure that for the first time could result in plan members sharing the dues cost of their healthcare coverage.
New grant-funding opportunities are now available for new worshiping communities through Mission Program Grants.
“We’re thrilled to put this $600,000 of restricted giving for church planting to work,” says Philip Lotspeich, director of Church Growth ministries for the Presbyterian Mission Agency. “We’re excited to partner with entrepreneurial individuals, congregations, and mid council leaders in creating 1,001 new worshiping communities in 10 years.”
Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Oct. 16 said recent decisions by two regional bodies to allow ordained female pastors were “serious mistakes,” and women who are ordained won’t be recognized — at least for now
Glendora Paul, a native of India who was co-founder of the World Mission Initiative at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, died Oct. 23 of complications of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 82.
The Carter Center in Atlanta has issued a statement commending the 15 Christian leaders ― including Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Stated Clerk Gradye Parsons ― who recently urged Congress to investigate human rights violations by the Israeli government against Palestinians that they say are obviously in violation of U.S. law.
Eileen Guenther, the national president of the American Guild of Organists, reveals behind-the-scenes church struggles in her new book, Rivals or a Team?: Clergy-Musician Relationships in the Twenty-First Century.
On the day after the night Hurricane Sandy arrived here as a rambunctious guest, New York City and much of the surrounding Tri-State area within at least a 90 mile radius was still recovering from the shock while beginning to assess the damage caused by the hazing it received from the massive storm.