What could your congregation do if it didn’t have to worry about keeping up a building? That’s the question Rev. Eneyas Freitas asked when he started a new worshiping community called Urban Connect in Phoenix. His congregation meets at a new event venue called The Vintage 45 in Phoenix’s warehouse district every Sunday morning.
Dexter and Liz Kearny unabashedly describe themselves as “Presbyterian through and through.” The couple, both raised in Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations, met at University Ministries, a parachurch ministry at University Presbyterian Church for college students in Seattle, when they were undergraduates at the University of Washington.
정서기 공천 위원회 (SCNC) 위원장인 캐롤 맥도널드 목사는 “우리 위원회는 허버트 넬슨 목사가 미국 장로교와 우리의 에큐메니컬 형제 자매들에게 제사장 및 선지자가 될 것이라고 믿습니다”라고 말했다.
“그 는 목회자의 마음과 정신을 지니고 있습니다. 그가 ‘어떻게 지내세요?’라고 물으면, 그는 정말 그것이 알고 싶어서 질문합니다. 그의 예언적 목소리는 우리로 하여금 ‘하나님 나라의 일’을 하는 교단이 되자고 초청할 것입니다. 즉, 우리가 누구인지에 대한 성서 및 신학적 토대들을 되찾고, 분열보다는 연합시키는 공동체를 다시 형성하며, 세상에 담대히 나가 예수님의 메시지를 전하는 일을 하도록 초청할 것입니다.”
The Reverend Dr. J. Herbert Nelson is the nominee to become the next Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the committee charged with bringing a candidate to the 222nd General Assembly (2016) announced today.
“We, the committee, believe J. Herbert Nelson will be both priest and prophet to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and to our ecumenical and interreligious sisters and brothers,” said the Reverend Carol McDonald, moderator of the Stated Clerk Nomination Committee (SCNC).
The first full day of Ecumenical Advocacy Days (EAD) kicked off Saturday morning with a plenary session titled “Racism, Class & Power.” The two-hour session outlined two key issues that advocates would go to Capitol Hill on Monday to discuss with their state representatives: voting rights, specifically the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act and corporate domination, or opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
Congregational Ministries Publishing (CMP) se ha digitalizado. Por primera vez, la casa publicadora de la agencia de misión presbiteriana encargada de los materiales educativos y de otros recursos para la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE. UU.) ofrece un catálogo de fácil manejo que está disponible en línea.
회중 사역 출판부가 디지털화하였다. 미국 장로교를 위한 커리큘럼 및 기타 교육 자료들을 출판하는 미국 장로교 선교부 (PMA) 출판사가 처음으로 간편하게 이용할 수 있는 온라인 카탈로그(online catalog)를 제공하고 있다.
A record number of Presbyterians gathered at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church last week to talk about some serious issues facing the U.S. and the church. But organizers behind Compassion, Peace and Justice Training Day say that’s what makes these annual gatherings so important to church members.
Congregational Ministries Publishing (CMP) has gone digital. For the first time, the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s publisher of curriculum and other educational resources for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is offering an easy-to-use, online catalog.
Information is still coming in about the devastating effects of the earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is organizing a response to help sustain life and restore hope in the coming days.