“소망의 하나님이 모든 기쁨과 평강을 믿음 안에서 너희에게 충만하게 하사 성령의 능력으로 소망이 넘치게 하시기를 원하노라 “ (롬 15:13).
나는 캘리포니아 산타 페의 란초에 있는 Village Community Presbyterian Church (www.villagechurch.org) 에서 섬길 수 있는 새로운 부름을 받았다. 그래서 며칠 전 우리 가족이 뉴저지에서 남부 캘리포니아로 이사를 갔다. 우리 막내 아들이 3학년 자기 학급 친구로부터 작별 카드를 받았는데, 그 문구들 중에는 “아무도 네가 떠나는 것을 원하지 않지만, 떠날 때인가 보다”라는 글이 적혀 있었다.
Who speaks for the American Jewish community?
As the global community sits in worry and sadness over the more than 200 school girls recently abducted in Nigeria, we in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) call for deep and earnest prayer for their safe return.
From our positions as Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, Executive Director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency; and Moderator of the 220th General Assembly (2012), we urge Presbyterians and the world to pray without ceasing that the girls are located and returned unharmed to their families.
Over the next couple of weeks the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) will begin remitting the portions of gifts to two special offerings ― Peacemaking and Pentecost ― that are earmarked for congregations and presbyteries.
Engage: Mission is now available for churches being called to mission in their own backyards. It is the third and final adult study from Engage curriculum, based on the well-loved Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) program of the same name.
Renewed commitment by opposing parties in the South Sudan conflict to secure humanitarian access to provide aid for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people within the country is step forward toward active protection of civilians, ACT Alliance has said.
In 1861, a group of presbyteries in the American south broke off from the Presbyterian denomination, primarily over the issue of slavery, in order to form the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America. In 1973, a group of Presbyterian churches in the American south broke off from the denomination, primarily over the ordination of women, in order to form the Presbyterian Church in America.
When was the last time there was a riot outside your church because you were hosting a guest speaker? That is what happened a few weeks ago when East Belfast Mission (EBM), a congregation of the Methodist Church in Ireland, hosted Patrick Magee, a former IRA bomber. A protest demonstration outside turned violent and four police officers were injured.
Firearms will not be permitted in buildings or on property of any Episcopal church anywhere in the state of Georgia, bishops of the two Georgia dioceses have said.
“The senseless war in South Sudan must end now,” said World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit following the pastoral visit of a high-level ecumenical delegation to local churches in Juba, South Sudan on May 2.