To the Rev. Nathan Mochizuki, the Small Church Residency Program is an adventure.
Mochizuki, who was called in August 2013 to the First Presbyterian Churches of Carmi, Eldorado, and Harrisburg, Ill. — a cooperative parish in the Presbytery of Southeastern Illinois that he serves with another member of the program, the Rev. Elizabeth Moses — joined the other members of the Class of 2013 for a midpoint informational and sharing session at the Presbyterian Center here from August 25–29.
On a recent summer Sunday at worship at Bethany Presbyterian Church here, we prayed with our hearts, minds and hands.
We had our first-ever participatory sermon, during which we assembled kits of school supplies for distribution here in the United States and throughout the world in case of disaster or violence that leaves school children without access to school and school supplies.
Authorities have arrested a Chinese pastor who strongly criticized the ongoing persecution of Christians in the country. The preacher, Rev. Huang Yizi, may face a decade of imprisonment after police laid charges of organizing a crowd to cause disorder.
I (Jenny) work in a community clinic called “El Buen Samaritano” or “The Good Samaritan” in the town of Batey 7, a community originally established by the Dominican government for Haitian sugarcane cutters. The clinic “El Buen Samaritano” is part of the social response program of the Dominican Evangelical Church (IED). In 2011 the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) sent our family to the Dominican Republic as mission workers to facilitate and reinforce the mission efforts of the IED.
“After 500 years a woman is now the main leader of the Ancestor Governor Body of our land.”
With this testimony, a group of 30 people from the Misaka Indigenous community and surroundings started a meeting here on contextual Bible studies, gender-based violence and economic empowerment. The conference was sponsored by Episcopal Relief & Development and the New York-based Trinity Foundation.
With minority students now making up a majority of public school enrollments, a national group of Hispanic evangelicals is calling for strong ties between churches and schools to encourage better academic results.
The Rev. Allan Boesak — an influential anti-Apartheid activist and a principal author of the Belhar Confession — will be one of several church leaders, historians, and theologians scheduled to speak at a special event at Montreat Conference Center on Oct. 17.
On Sept. 3 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its annual report, Household Food Security in the United States 2013.
The report reveals that 14.3 percent of U.S. households were food-insecure in 2013. This number is a slight decline since 2011 but remains well above the rates of food insecurity recorded before the recession.
Chicago. New York. Washington, D.C. In quick succession this year, three women have been chosen to lead historic tall-steeple churches in all these cities.
Brent Barry picked up his iPhone on an early June Saturday morning and scrolled through his Twitter feed. A tweet from National Public Radio caught his attention. Reverse food truck? What is that? Clicked the link.
After reading the story about a Minnesota beer company’s reverse food truck that collected money for local food banks, Barry was inspired. “It hit me that this was something that we could do,” said Barry, pastor at NorthPark Presbyterian.