In a featured breakout session on discipleship and evangelism at Big Tent 2015, a standing-room-only audience was encouraged to “experience God with others, as they are out and about in the world.”
“What does it mean to love God and love my neighbor?”
This question, says the Rev. Scott Weimer, senior pastor at North Avenue Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, disrupted the status quo and challenged his congregation to pursue ministry in ways it hadn’t expected.
Sister Simone Campbell has never shied from away from taking on important issues whether it is immigration reform, healthcare, peace-building or economic justice. As a religious leader, attorney and poet, she has used her knowledge and skill to share public policy issues with audiences ranging from government leaders and church members to activists and the general public.
Incidents of racially charged violence across the country—from Ferguson to Baltimore and in many other cities in between—and the public reaction and outcry for justice that followed each have once again brought to light underlying racial tensions that continue to exist in American society.
El Comité de Nominaciones para Secretario/a Permanente de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.) ha comenzado su labor. Debemos entregar una nominación para el/la jefe/a eclesiástico/a de nuestra denominación, el/la secretario/a de la Asamblea General, a la 222a Asamblea General que se reunirá en Portland, Oregón, el 18 de junio del 2016. Es nuestra esperanza y oración traer a la Asamblea el candidato más fuerte posible para este cargo tan importante.
The youngest agency of the PC(USA), Presbyterian Investment & Loan Program Inc. (PILP) celebrates its twentieth birthday, July 31, 2015.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s fourth Big Tent event opened in Knoxville, Tenn., with a lively worship service led by the Rev. Dr. Jana Childers. More than 700 Presbyterians gathered on the campus of the University of Tennessee to sing, dance and hear Childers’ opening remarks.
At a pre-conference event as part of Big Tent 2015 held this week in Knoxville, Tenn., the National Asian Presbyterian Council gathered to share stories of ministry, address business needs of the council, and engage in a time of learning and sharing from those serving around the country and around the world.
Many years ago, Reformed Christians from North America and Europe responded to Christ’s call to “go and make disciples of all nations” by traveling the world and sharing the gospel—establishing churches, schools, hospitals and clinics as they went. Today, Reformed Christians raised in those churches are migrating to North America and Europe, where they seek membership in Reformed congregations.
Following a distinguished career in theological education and pastoral ministry spanning nearly five decades, the Rev. Dr. Dean Thompson knows something about what makes Presbyterians, well, Presbyterian.