A nationally known change management consultant and active Congregational laywoman has been elected transitional general secretary of the National Council of Churches (NCC). Peg Birk, president and CEO of Interim Solutions in Minneapolis and a member of Plymouth Congregational Church there, was unanimously elected to the position by the NCC’s governing board in late May.
At the end of May, for the first time, the Taize brothers brought their conference to the U.S., where several thousand people ― particularly young adults ― met for prayer and song at DePaul University in Chicago.
The Rev. Henriette Hutabarat Lebang, the first woman general secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), has asserted that churches should make serious efforts to support women in positions of authority.
Outside, there’s a chill in the evening air. Inside the trailer, it’s warm and steamy. Clean scents of soap and shampoo fill the cramped space.
“When we get here, there are usually three or four people waiting ― an hour early,” said Frank Fargo, whose custom trailer makes his ministry possible.
Fargo, 59, and his wife, Louise, were honored recently at Everett’s First Presbyterian Church. In a presentation during the church’s “Dinner at the Bell,” they were recognized for providing 2,500 showers to people in need.
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has announced the development of a new book series on Orthodox theology in partnership with Volos Academy in Greece.
With the 2012 presidential election less than six months away, U.S. congregations are getting the message that Americans want religion out of politics. But that doesn’t mean they plan to keep quiet in the public square.
Korean churches are developing plans for a “peace train” that would travel from Berlin through Moscow and Beijing to Busan, South Korea, in time for the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) global assembly in October 2013.
One hundred Presbyterians who will provide leadership for the upcoming 220th General Assembly in Pittsburgh gathered here this week for three days of intensive training and to build the agendas for the record 20 Assembly Committees that will process the approximately 800 items of business before the biennial gathering of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
― There was little familiarity with community networks in Cuba until Apr. 25, 1987, when the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center (CMMLK) was founded. Today, this ecumenical Christian organization links up local initiatives with others in the Americas.
Elke Thompson and Sam Quinn got engaged the old-fashioned way: their parents arranged it.