[Korean] [Epañol] Please pray for peace, justice and calm in Madagascar in the midst of a tense political situation.
Marc Ravalomanana returned to the island nation in the early hours of Monday, October 13. Elected president of the country in 2001 and again in 2006, Ravalomanana was deposed by a military coup d’état in March 2009 and has spent the last five and a half years in exile.
[한국어] [Español] Thirty years ago Kathleen “Katie” Kelly Hopper and her husband, James Harmon Hopper, found their first call, to be co-pastors of three small congregations, at a Face to Face event—a kind of Presbyterian job fair—in Dallas.
The two were in their final year of seminary. “We drove up from Austin Seminary,” Katie recalls. “It was a good experience.”
The Presbyterian Mission Agency Board (PMAB) has approved adjustments in the mission budgets for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) for the next three years ― authorizing spending increases that the denomination will pay for by drawing down reserves.
If you think housing ministry is only about the physical work of repairing houses for the needy, the people of the North Parish Housing Ministry (NPHM) have testimonials from mission work participants that tell a different story.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) delegation to the Middle East, led by General Assembly Moderator Heath Rada, has turned its attention to Iraq, the second stop on the delegation’s three-week visit. The group spent three days meeting with church leaders, Kurdistan officials, and displaced families.
Evangelism in new contexts was the focus of a meeting here last involving the World Council of Churches (WCC) and North American councils of churches. The meeting’s primary objective was to set the agenda for a larger consultation on evangelism in North America, slated before the end of 2015.
The Synod of Lakes and Prairies elected Elona Street-Stewart, its current associate for racial ethnic ministries and community empowerment, to be its next synod executive effective Jan. 1. She will be the first Native American to serve as a synod executive in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
힘든 환경 속에서 환대를 실천하기
레바논은 인접한 시리아와 이라크로부터 밀려오는 피난민들을 받아 주고 있다. 이것은 미국에서의 국경 문제를 아주 작아 보이게 한다. 레바논은 4백만의 인구를 가지고 있는 나라이다. 지난 3년 사이에, 그들은 시리아로부터는 150만명의 피난민들을, 그리고 이라크로부터는 75만명의 피난민을 품어주었다. 이것으로 인해 콘네티컷 주보다 작은 이 나라의 인구가 50퍼센트나 증가하였다. 그 결과 그렇지 않아도 1990년에 끝난 15년 동안의 내란과, 일련의 테러 공격들과 자살 폭격, 그리고 지난 20년 동안 때때로 진행되어 온 인접한 이스라엘의 공격 및 점령과 같은 어려운 일을 겪었던 이 나라의 자원들에 엄청난 압박이 가해지고 있다.
그렇게 힘든 환경에서 한 나라와 교회가 어떻게 급진적인 환대를 베풀 수 있을까? …
Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi won the 95th Nobel Peace Prize on Friday (Oct. 10) for their work promoting education rights for children in a year that has been anything but peaceful.
“Revising the Directory for Worship: Bread, Bath, and Beyond,” a free webinar hosted by the Company of New Pastors (CNP), will be offered on Oct. 28 at 2:00 p.m. EST.