Severe famine and ongoing fighting between ethnic groups have made survival difficult for millions of people in South Sudan. As a result of the deteriorating conditions, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) has issued an appeal.
The August 2017 edition of Keeping Faith from St. Louis, the site of this year’s Big Tent gathering and next year’s General Assembly, is now available for viewing and download.
We are living in the between of the beginning and the end. Because of our tendency to want to control time—to want to know when things begin and end—life and ministry can be hard.
The PC(USA) has constantly and consistently focused on family unification, family reunification, and the need for comprehensive immigration reform that would offer a more permanent solution to the millions of undocumented who call the U.S. home. However, as comprehensive reform seems a distant dream, we continue to be in solidarity supporting movements that have led to DACA and the reintroduction of bills like the Dream Act of 2017. These two letters from the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly—one to the President of the United States (PDF) urging that DACA continue and one to the members of Congress (PDF) to pass the Dream Act—are visible signs of solidarity.
El Rvd. Samuel Son servirá como el nuevo Gerente de Diversidad y Reconciliación en la Agencia Presbiteriana de Misión (PMA) de la Iglesia Presbiteriana (EE.UU.) Su labor comenzara en Louisville el 5 de septiembre y se reportara a la oficina del Director Ejecutivo de la PMA .
손목사는 미국장로교회의 총회 선교국(PMA)에 새로운 다양성과 화해를 위한 관리자로 고용되었다. 루이빌에서 9월 5일부터 일하기 시작하며, PMA 사무총장에게 보고한다.
The Presbyterian Hunger Program has a long history of advocating for farmworkers that supply vegetables for restaurants and grocery chains. Now the ministry is hoping to see success for dairy farmworkers.
The Rev. Samuel Son has been hired as the new Manager for Diversity and Reconciliation in the Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) He begins his work in Louisville September 5 and will report to the Executive Director’s office of the PMA.
The 1001 New Worshiping Communities of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be live streaming sermons and plenary talks from its national conference here August 7-10 on its 1001 NWC Facebook page.
Joanna Shelton spent many years believing there was no God. However, reading her great-grandfather’s journal of his time as a missionary in Japan changed that. She says that she is his latest convert.